Example sentences of "[unc] [noun sg] [was/were] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , Mr er er Mr er wife was in the room , there was a child in the room , erm which at the time I did n't even realise there were two children but er there was one child in the room and er really for decency more than anything . |
| 2 | it depended on what the particular er problem was at the time , if something failed after four or five years it was then covered by insurance by the N H B C or by guarantees |
| 3 | ‘ Therefore , I must say that Wedgwood 's response was like a breath of fresh air . |
| 4 | Noah 's faith was in a God Who makes promises and keeps them . |
| 5 | There was a band of decisions and you had to say that the parent 's decision was outside the band of reasonableness . |
| 6 | He adopted the right test and asked whether in the circumstances this mother 's decision was within the band of what a reasonable mother would do . |
| 7 | It appears that access to the flagpole on the bank 's building was via the bedroom of the young couple who rented the flat above . |
| 8 | The play 's story was about the change in men which can break deadlock and bring teamwork . |
| 9 | Children 's shit was of no use to anyone . |
| 10 | Nelson 's experience was of an organisation that had its regular human share of good soldiers , time-servers , wasters , whiners , climbers , saints , piss-heads and heroes ; and when the pressure was on , probably more of the latter than it was fair to expect . |
| 11 | I suspect that S.A.S. casualties ( like those of other special forces ) suffered from the peculiar problem that many of those wearing the regiment 's badge were on the strength of another formation . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ So wonderfully pleased and satisfied ’ was he with it that , as Molyneux wrote to Locke , ‘ he has ordered it to be read by the Batchelors in the College , and strictly examines them in their progress therein ’ ; and so it came about that Locke 's masterpiece was on the curriculum which faced George Berkeley , the subject of the next chapter , when he entered Trinity as a student in 1700 . |
| 13 | Ted 's apartment was in the East Village , an assortment of dank rooms almost devoid of furniture but with a variety of rugs and cushions and mattresses scattered around the floor . |
| 14 | Then Susan 's monster was in the square , towering above Daine 's statue . |
| 15 | The lute 's heyday was during the Renaissance and the last solo music for lute was composed by J S Bach around 1720 . |
| 16 | A Sechem 's mind was like a sponge , soaking up information until a connection could be made between apparently unrelated areas of scientific fact . |
| 17 | Grant 's mind was in a whirl as he sought desperately for a way out . |
| 18 | Laura 's mind was in a whirl as she gazed at him silently for a moment . |
| 19 | Yanto 's mind was in a turmoil when he reached home that night . |
| 20 | Jane Leeson went into the photographic studio and told her husband that Lowell 's girlfriend was in the reception area . |
| 21 | From the start , they had worked together like brothers , with respect and affection , and Coleman 's grief was in no way lightened by a suspicion that the killers might have fingered Asmar through him . |
| 22 | During the mid-sixties the strongest pressures on the profession 's practice were in the area of conveyancing . |
| 23 | The meeting at Rutherglen for the choice of commissioner with the authority of the Burgh 's vote was on the evening of 20th May at seven pm and the Dixon agents were so keen to keep their influence to the very end and not let Kirkman Finlay 's agents have an opportunity to exert influence that they were hard pressed to get the Councillors to the meeting at seven pm . |
| 24 | The plaintiff 's car was in a collision with the defendant 's car caused by the defendant 's negligence . |
| 25 | But Frederick Bissett detested walking , and because his Sara 's car was in the garage , and his own car sat outside overnight , he condemned himself to five minutes of scraping the ice from the windscreen and the back window and to revving the engine , blowing grey fumes away down Lilac Gardens . |
| 26 | All he wanted to do was to see if Connon 's car was in the garage . |
| 27 | Then Rain 's car was round the bend and the house vanished . |
| 28 | Miguel 's jeep was outside the villa when Shelley happened to look out . |
| 29 | She knew Marek 's bedroom was at the back of the house . |
| 30 | The master bedroom looked out over one side of the front door and Benny 's bedroom was on the other . |