Example sentences of "[be] [prep] a [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been necessary to handle the appointment rather delicately , as when the post was originally advertised it had been for a boys ' school , 600 strong ; with the anticipated changes this would soon develop into a co-educational establishment of up to 1,000 . |
| 2 | ‘ My wife rightly points out that I 've never been in a ladies ' loo in my life . |
| 3 | Well I , well I 'm on a weeks ' holiday are n't I , at Easter ? |
| 4 | I mean when I got , when I got here okay er when I was in the lower sixth and I like sort of got in and then like it was so weird being , I mean I 'd never been to a blokes ' school before I came here |
| 5 | Valerie Way had been on a teachers ' course concerned with gender and the curriculum and described what happened when she returned to school . |
| 6 | She remembers being in a kids ' dance troupe called the Wee Winkies when she was a seven-year-old in Chicago , she enjoyed a run of successes on the TV talent show Star Search , and she was eventually spotted by Prince dancing in a Los Angeles nightclub . |
| 7 | Like being at a gravediggers ' convention , I thought , when one had marked out one 's first plot . |
| 8 | of the ward on the right erm , and er , it 's like a mens ' ward . |
| 9 | It was like a drovers ' camp in front of Castle Menzies . |
| 10 | It was like a crooks ' convention |