Example sentences of "and his [noun sg] [was/were] [prep] [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 | He and his wife were at home . |
| 3 | A Welsh miner and his wife were on passage on the " Islay " to Port Askaig to join the workers at Ballygrant when his wife was taken ill . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It seemed that all the world and his wife were in Madrid . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Murray added : ‘ The player feels he has let me down and his wife was in tears when she rang . |
| 8 | And his sister was in Texas and the brother was in Philadelphia . |
| 9 | Secondly , he had published doctrine at variance with the Athanasian Creed and the Homilies of the Church of England and his teaching was at variance with that of the Archbishop of Canterbury and other bishops . |
| 10 | He had left things to others too long , and his sovereignty was in danger of being slighted . |
| 11 | The Ministers and the Court dignitaries were on the platform to make their farewells , which the Emperor had insisted be short and restrained , so that within a few minutes of his arrival he and his son were on board and the train left to cries of ‘ Vive l'Empereur ! ’ |
| 12 | Ferguson missed that match , which fell when communications between the player and his manager were under repair . |
| 13 | His head had fallen forward a little and his face was in shadow . |
| 14 | His chin was resting on his shoulder and his face was in profile to her . |
| 15 | Thomas Cook and his family were without doubt the single most important innovators , establishing not only a major business enterprise but methods of operation that were to have global implications . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ Not like when he was a baby and his father was in France until he was about three . ’ |
| 18 | Police said one of the boys suffered a broken leg and his father was in hospital with serious burns . |
| 19 | Ken Gillance , defending , said the burglaries occurred when James and his girlfriend were in debt and James had nowhere to live . |