Example sentences of "[pron] was [prep] a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Best who was at a Lions selection meeting in Edinburgh yesterday morning , reckoned the margin and manner of Scotland 's 20-0 victory would certainly have England worried and that he expected a cracker of a game on Saturday week at Twickenham , where Scotland have won only twice , in 1971 and 1983 , since the Second World War . |
| 2 | It was at a jewellers ’ in Milan and could be retrieved for a certain sum . |
| 3 | I had to announce a big disaster during the war , the fall of France or something , and it was during a children 's matinee . |
| 4 | It was like a drovers ' camp in front of Castle Menzies . |
| 5 | It was like a crooks ' convention |
| 6 | He was at a police station , being questioned . |
| 7 | I think he was in a munitions factory somewhere near Baghdad and the stress had certainly precipitated quite a serious heart condition and that was under a relatively peaceful situation , so if there was any sign of war out there that would obviously be tenfold . |