Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [prep] a [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the first two months I was on a King 's Kids Outreach Tour . |
| 2 | I was in a doctor 's house . |
| 3 | ‘ Look at you , you 'd think you were at a suspect 's house instead of your daughter 's bedroom . |
| 4 | She described how she was at a butcher 's shop when she noticed James had gone . |
| 5 | One was that , since she was on a fool 's errand anyway , she was n't going to dress up for it . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It was immediately apparent they were in a lady 's room . |
| 10 | ‘ Of course I do , ’ he replied , relaxing and stretching his long legs out in front of him , so that they were within a hair 's breadth of brushing against hers . |
| 11 | My mother preferred the daily serial , Mrs Dale 's Dairy , which she mocked a little but rather liked because it was about a doctor 's wife . |
| 12 | It was worth a monastery 's while to gain exemption for its own boats , for instance , and then as now , the great rivers of France lent themselves to bulk traffic . |
| 13 | When the final announcement came yesterday , it was on a winter 's day as cold and dull as their marriage had become . |
| 14 | I had to announce a big disaster during the war , the fall of France or something , and it was during a children 's matinee . |
| 15 | It was in a woman 's handwriting . |
| 16 | It was like a drovers ' camp in front of Castle Menzies . |
| 17 | ‘ It was like a burglar 's convention , ’ Sean , 35 , from Wombwell , said yesterday . |
| 18 | Her hand was small , but , ringless and with short nails as it was , it was like a man 's . |
| 19 | It was like a crooks ' convention |
| 20 | He cried out , a sound of pain and rage so inarticulate it was like a seagull 's screech . |
| 21 | As he pedalled slowly towards the farmhouse , logic told the village constable he was on a fool 's errand . |