Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [was/were] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My car was in the air , flying … |
| 2 | I could see her now that my eyes were in the shadow of a branch . |
| 3 | My presents were in the cupboard … they 've all gone ! ’ |
| 4 | My body was in the dining-room . |
| 5 | So well , I always remember it cos my missus was in the White Hart , she was telling me about it . |
| 6 | Mm , I came to Harlow with my parents , when my husband was in the Air Force |
| 7 | My husband was in the fields and he saw them blow up our new house . |
| 8 | My wife was in the bathroom . ’ |
| 9 | My father was in the army , we were living in the country , and she stayed and worked in London . |
| 10 | I came to Saigon eight years ago when my father was in the army . |
| 11 | My father was in the Army . |
| 12 | My father was in the US army over here . ’ |
| 13 | and my father was in the woods before the war and they , he , he looked after the woods and cut the trees down and everything and then they were sent |
| 14 | I was away with my mother and sister at the time , but my father was in the house . |
| 15 | ‘ He and my father were in the army together , friends . |
| 16 | I learnt later that it was the island of Trinidad , and that my island was in the mouth of the River Orinoco on the north coast of South America . |
| 17 | I was n't exactly selling drugs to teenagers : most of my friends were in the music business in London , and you ca n't find a business which goes more hand in hand with it . |
| 18 | ‘ My dad was in the reserves here for a season but his career was finished by an injury , ’ said Watson . |
| 19 | My master was in the habit , when he was particularly busy with his scientific work , of writing orders on pieces of paper and leaving them on the stairs . |
| 20 | I could n't give him cover because the see shield is is quite a heavy cumbers cumbersome thing and it has two handles behind it erm and they are obviously the means of holding it up and f for directing it wherever you want so I 'm holding this all the time so he ca n't pass his weapon to me and he ca n't put his weapon in my holster because my gun was in the holster . |
| 21 | And I tried to save up for a car cos my son was in the army . |
| 22 | My interest was in the players who had been forgotten — I simply wanted to know what had happened to people , ’ he said . |
| 23 | So I said , My brother was in the army then and my father was there on his own , so I asked him , I said , Can we put them in the workshop ? |
| 24 | Well my brother was in the Artillery and I thought well it be nice if I can get with him but that did n't work out that way . |
| 25 | MV Yes , first of all because my mother was in the United States and , after the early 1960s , we were relatively free to travel . |
| 26 | ‘ You were gentle , warm and willing but my mother was in the house . |
| 27 | Her head beat from side to side and she said , ‘ Yes , yes , yes , yes , ’ again , then Lachlan — wiry , athletic-looking , skinny shanks ramming back and forth like some skinny bull — reached under her , pulled her up , his legs spreading , kneeling ; she hung onto him , arms round his neck , then after a few vertical stabs he threw her down , back onto the bed ; she grunted , arms still tight round his back , then she brought her legs up , right up over his thin , plunging , globe-buttocked behind , until her ankles were in the small of his back , rocking to and fro , feet crossed one over the other , locked there ; with one splayed hand she held onto his back , pressing him to her , and with the other hand she felt down the length of his body , over ribs and waist and hips , and with another grunt reached round and under , taking his balls in her hand , pressing them and kneading them and squeezing them . |
| 28 | Her handbag was in the bedroom . |
| 29 | As they walked along , their heads were in the sun while their feet were in the shadow of the hedge . |
| 30 | Her bedroom was in the basement . |