Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun sg] in a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They left the foster mother 's home on 19 June , and after a period in a children 's home they have been placed with different foster parents . |
| 2 | After this , he resigned himself more or less to an athletics-oriented existence , taking up the offer of a job in a sports equipment shop , where he would be granted ample time off to compete in meetings and train regularly . |
| 3 | It is like a line-drawing in a children 's painting-book , waiting to be animated with colour and detail . |
| 4 | One minute I was in Holland working as a clerk in a police station and the next I was zooming all around the world . |
| 5 | Her curry love affair stretches back to the mid-Seventies when she worked as a volunteer in a children and old people 's home . |
| 6 | Recently , Moore had been commentating for London-based Capital Radio at football matches , as well as working as a partner in a sports marketing company , preparing for the 1994 World Cup . |
| 7 | The suspension followed allegations that , while he was still on duty , he had sex with a woman in a police patrol car . |
| 8 | ‘ If you have a row of garish shirts in all sorts of colours on a rack in a sports shop and one in just black , which one is going to stick out ? |