Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [prep] a [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I , well I 'm on a weeks ' holiday are n't I , at Easter ? |
| 2 | ‘ That 's all right , I 'm in a mate 's office . ’ |
| 3 | During the first two months I was on a King 's Kids Outreach Tour . |
| 4 | I was in a doctor 's house . |
| 5 | At a consultation you 're not in the vulnerable position that you are in a hairdresser 's chair . |
| 6 | You 're in a buyer 's market . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Look at you , you 'd think you were at a suspect 's house instead of your daughter 's bedroom . |
| 9 | You know you know Sonia' been kicked out of her house and she 's in a children 's home somewhere or something . |
| 10 | Sit her on a stranger 's knee and she may seem content , but compare her rigid posture with how relaxed she is on a parent 's knee . |
| 11 | She described how she was at a butcher 's shop when she noticed James had gone . |
| 12 | One was that , since she was on a fool 's errand anyway , she was n't going to dress up for it . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The net result is that there is no more reason to believe that our brains are like a cat 's than there is to believe that they are like a rat 's . |
| 16 | It was immediately apparent they were in a lady 's room . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . |
| 18 | of the ward on the right erm , and er , it 's like a mens ' ward . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's like a winter 's afternoon , not a summer 's one , ’ commented Maggie , switching on her lights Charlie nodded . |
| 20 | Aye yeah that 's that that that I mean I 've went to that doctor and and it 's like a doctor 's surgery surely is should be sacrament yo you should n't , know what I mean ? |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Although the trees are still leafless , I do not get a glimpse of the hall until it is within a stone 's throw , so hidden is it by a dense screen of boughs and underwood ; but I know it is near at hand , for an ancient archway spans the path leading to the farmyard , and just beyond the Tudor gateway bearing several clear-cut coats of arms . |
| 23 | He 's on a month 's contract from Bournemouth . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | When the final announcement came yesterday , it was on a winter 's day as cold and dull as their marriage had become . |
| 27 | I had to announce a big disaster during the war , the fall of France or something , and it was during a children 's matinee . |
| 28 | It was in a woman 's handwriting . |
| 29 | It was like a drovers ' camp in front of Castle Menzies . |
| 30 | ‘ It was like a burglar 's convention , ’ Sean , 35 , from Wombwell , said yesterday . |