Example sentences of "in a [noun pl] [noun] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The picture of life in a goods station was painted by Ernest Protheroe : |
| 2 | FIVE UDA blackmailers jailed last week after they were snared in a police sting were the organisation 's top extortionists . |
| 3 | A MAN injured in a police shoot-out was last night in hospital with chest wounds while police pieced together the tangled events of a night of violence that also left one man dead and three policemen injured . |
| 4 | Mrs. Millings was pleased at being called " Miss " , and the excitement of being taken to work in a police car was another pleasing thought . |
| 5 | Additional officers in a police van were called to give them back up and in turn became the target for bricks and stones . |
| 6 | For one offender just four hours in a police cell was enough to wipe out fines totalling nearly one thousand two hundred pounds . |
| 7 | If she was an innocent abroad , her parents considered that a life cocooned in an all-girls school was hardly adequate preparation for the bright lights of the big city . |