Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] in a [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.

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1 Nowadays I am inclined to compromise where as once I would have felt confident of victory in a dogs ' confrontation .
2 He delivers the wretched data of life in an itinerants ' lodging house .
3 As mysterious as the absence of children in a children 's theme park is the fact that the exact cast for the gala is also secret .
4 Rick has been teaching for twelve years and is Head of Mathematics in a boys ' secondary modern school in a small town , with an intake mainly from middle-class homes .
5 The Daily Telegraph , 4 March 1979 , notes a case where transvestites who hooked dresses through letter boxes pleaded guilty to burglary in a magistrates ' court , even though no part of their bodies was through the letter boxes .
6 Two more hi-jackings , set up by Hatton , who had kept the drivers occupied at pontoon in a carmen 's cafe ?
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