Example sentences of "[pron] [be] in a [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That 's all right , I 'm in a mate 's office . ’ |
| 2 | I was in a doctor 's house . |
| 3 | At a consultation you 're not in the vulnerable position that you are in a hairdresser 's chair . |
| 4 | You 're in a buyer 's market . ’ |
| 5 | I 've been gone just two days , and when I return you 're in a stranger 's clothes with a bandaged hand , and an odd expression on your face . ’ |
| 6 | You know you know Sonia' been kicked out of her house and she 's in a children 's home somewhere or something . |
| 7 | Last night , hundreds of calls were received by police after the BBC Crimewatch programme reconstructed the moment that James wandered away from his 25-year-old mother , Denise , while she was in a butcher 's shop . |
| 8 | They asked Meehan , who was in a neighbour 's room , about a gas meter and a broken window and Mohammed Mansha told him he would have to pay for the damage . |
| 9 | Well I think it was the maternity because I mean she had had eleven pregnancies so I think she she was very , very erm able to talk about it and I , I do n't , I know Dad had got a good job in the , well if you can call any pit job a good job , but say that the money was decent , but I know that she always had to have two doctors and it was , it was in those days we were , it was good we were in a doctor 's club because , you know , you had n't got any er the maternity and , and the , and the ante- natal and pre-natal and goodness knows what that we 've got today . |
| 10 | It was immediately apparent they were in a lady 's room . |
| 11 | Adoption workers need to accommodate in their thinking and practice more than one concept simultaneously , that is , the achievement of ‘ open ’ adoption or adoption with contact where it is in a child 's interests but within a framework of legal security . |
| 12 | It was in a woman 's handwriting . |
| 13 | Meredith cast her mind back over her last conversation with Harriet , ‘ One ca n't know what 's in a person 's mind . ’ |
| 14 | Popular culture gives us plenty of female verbal incontinence ( cf the Andy Capp joke : ‘ when two wives get together , who has the last word ? ’ ) and illogical women who ca n't keep to the point ( as a character in the soap opera Coronation Street comments , ‘ you might as well try to knit fog as follow what 's in a woman 's mind ’ ) . |
| 15 | The test of what is in a child 's best interests refers to general societal values , rather than the views of the particular parent or legal guardian . |