Example sentences of "[noun prp] ['s] [conj] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd go into Fortnum 's and try on a sable coat just so I would n't die before I 'd worn one . |
| 2 | The Rachmaninov Op 19 , too , begins with questions , these posed more boldly than Beethoven 's and answered in a first movement of easy confidence . |
| 3 | This indirectly inspired the Victoria and Albert dockers to discuss setting up a rival organization to Tillett 's and led to a united campaign against the employers later in the month . |
| 4 | My usage however is more general than Turner 's and depends on a mechanical model . |
| 5 | He reached Benson 's and passed under the scaffold . |
| 6 | ‘ I want you to dine with me tomorrow night , ’ Damian said as they left Cartier 's and strolled along the marble corridors . |
| 7 | For example , he is showing the Metropolitan 's ‘ Venus and Adonis ’ , although he would also have borrowed the one recently auctioned at Christie 's and bought by the Getty Museum , had it not been in restoration . |
| 8 | She stopped close to the entrance to St Martin 's and walked up the steep path of a tiny church , ancient before St Thomas was born . |
| 9 | He hangs up his camelhair coat in the anteroom that connects his office with Shirley 's and passes into the former . |
| 10 | There had been sightings , his family was powerful enough to keep him hidden and safe from the inevitable hanging ‘ should he show his face on the shores of Albion again' — a favourite phrase of Joseph 's , picked up from a knife-grinder whose preoccupation with Bligh , the Bounty and the Mutiny had almost equalled Joseph 's as witnessed in a fierce contest of informational prowess contested in the snug of the Bull in Lorton where the knife-grinder had eventually conceded defeat and been given several unexpected commissions ( including one from the vicar of Cockermouth who disliked Joseph intensely and produced a cluster of blunt knives and dullest scissors to prove it ) as compensation . |
| 11 | He walked into Lipton 's and stood behind a fat woman who immediately said , ‘ Ee are , Chris , serve this chap . |
| 12 | Here we met up again with Ned , and stayed with Deryn Williams who is a niece of Anne 's and teaches at the local High School — we camped in her garden . |
| 13 | The leaders — Castle Falis , Princeful , Kapeno , Rondetto and Rutherfords — swept over Becher 's and made for the twenty-third fence , the smallest on the course and , though taken at a left-hand angle , a simple preliminary to the trappy right-angled bend to the left at the Canal Turn . |
| 14 | It is to be noted that in the most recent quarter , although auction sales were 15% up on the previous quarter , the higher loss compared to last year reflects a $7 million drop in sales from the Acquavella deal , now a separate division within Sotheby 's although included in the accounts as part of their auction operations . |
| 15 | In his room he unpacked the little portable typewriter that had once been Jenny 's and stared at a blank paper until his embarrassment had faded . |
| 16 | I simply write to Madame Tussaud 's and put in a list of requests for figures . ’ |
| 17 | So , imagining we would have problems with security , I turned round , dumped the cartridges at Brookes 's and returned to the Palace . |
| 18 | All attempts by the parents to have a Lydia or a Charles would be doomed to failure : one Lydia just lived to see her first birthday — the first two years of life seeming to be the most dangerous by far for the poor little infants — and the next passed away at the age of three , baptised at St John 's but buried by the Baptists of Badcox Lane . |
| 19 | Two hours of sipping Bell 's and listening to the quacks of the local Scampi and Mateus Rosé crowd made the whole issue seem much simpler . |
| 20 | Sean wished that he had gone down to Birdie Mac 's and knocked on the door for a bar of Kit-Kat , anything rather than face these two . |