Example sentences of "[noun sg] in a [noun pl] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | A full enquiry has been launched into how a rapist was able to attack an eleven-year old girl in a children 's ward at a London hospital . |
| 2 | Staff and parents need to be strongly motivated to seek an integrated placement in a children 's day centre or nursery school . |
| 3 | Todd Haynes ' Poison is , in part , a celebration of death and desire in a men 's prison . |
| 4 | Gaby went to work in New York , Rose emigrated to Australia , taking Steve ( who had a spell in a Children 's Psychiatric Unit as a kind of punishment for killing Charley and who knew what else ) with her . |
| 5 | Eve , 23 , who plays a striker in a men 's team in a BBC drama , said the Chelsea and QPR fans were ‘ disgusting ’ . |
| 6 | My work experience includes one year as an accounts clerk , and two years as a shop assistant in a women 's clothes shop . |
| 7 | Despite the time lost , he threw himself into his work and eventually , with a good brain and a determination to achieve , obtained qualification to become a surgeon in a children 's hospital . |
| 8 | Two more hi-jackings , set up by Hatton , who had kept the drivers occupied at pontoon in a carmen 's cafe ? |
| 9 | It is like a line-drawing in a children 's painting-book , waiting to be animated with colour and detail . |
| 10 | ‘ Listen , ’ she said , ‘ someone told me today about this survey in a women 's magazine . |
| 11 | One of the earliest to be shown was the 1950 film Caged , screened on ITV in 1968 : this featured Hope Emerson as a mannish , sadistic matron in a women 's prison . |
| 12 | The whale 's new home is an enclosure in a children 's health cure resort at Laspi Bay , seven kilometres from the spot Mikhail Gorbachev chose for his presidential dacha in the Crimea , and 20 kilometres from the closed city of Sevastopol . |
| 13 | She was a slim blonde girl in her twenties who might have stepped out of a fashion advertisement in a women 's magazine . |