Example sentences of "and his [noun sg] [was/were] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dennay and his deputy were in Scotland earlier this month for a meeting with senior staff , and were left in little doubt about the general unhappiness at the new set up . |
| 2 | Each year Mrs Curdle asked to see how the previous year 's bouquet had worn , so that the doctor and his wife were in honour bound not to destroy these offerings . |
| 3 | It seemed that all the world and his wife were in Madrid . |
| 4 | In 1926 , eleven of her students attended Newnham College 's summer school for working women and a further three joined the summer school at Cheshunt College , where George Pateman and his wife were in charge of the arrangements . |
| 5 | Murray added : ‘ The player feels he has let me down and his wife was in tears when she rang . |
| 6 | And his sister was in Texas and the brother was in Philadelphia . |
| 7 | He had left things to others too long , and his sovereignty was in danger of being slighted . |
| 8 | His head had fallen forward a little and his face was in shadow . |
| 9 | His chin was resting on his shoulder and his face was in profile to her . |
| 10 | Because of this ritual we wondered if Madame was privy to his secret , if she knew the story , if she sat by him because she knew that O 's great self-possession and his quietness were in fact the signs of a pain which had to be kept hidden , a pain which stayed fresh and so had to be controlled every hour of the night . |
| 11 | ‘ Not like when he was a baby and his father was in France until he was about three . ’ |
| 12 | Police said one of the boys suffered a broken leg and his father was in hospital with serious burns . |
| 13 | Ken Gillance , defending , said the burglaries occurred when James and his girlfriend were in debt and James had nowhere to live . |