Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [prep] [noun] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , I do get a bit ac , I mean , th there 's , there 's one young girl in the class and , we were on about women 's role in society and going on about third world woman , but even western woman have their position , you know , she does the housework |
| 2 | The interviews were mostly with women 's magazines , and many of the letters we received were from women , who felt an instinctive sympathy for John and could easily put themselves either in my position or that of John 's mother . |
| 3 | The ‘ Dionysiac ’ qualities of life were an essential part of Layton 's view ; they were so in Leonard 's , too . |
| 4 | Such terms were scarcely to Edward 's liking , but he confirmed the treaty on 13 June , and in a fatal misjudgement , for which the Despensers may have been in part responsible , Edward agreed to allow his son Prince Edward , now aged eleven , to go to France in his place to do homage . |
| 5 | I 'll come with you , I said , I thought you were away to Mandy 's . |
| 6 | His thoughts were not of Britain 's fate , nor Poland 's , but of Hannele 's . |
| 7 | Some of the transactions the Crown sought to rely on were not at arm 's length and might therefore be of no assistance , but there might be other transactions which had taken place between parties who were genuinely trying to strike an open market value , and there was no reason why such cases should be ignored . |
| 8 | Above and top : Polypterus ornatipinnis — even a large pair of these were not beyond Derek 's ingenuity when it came to bringing them home from the USA . |
| 9 | If sterling were not in Europe 's exchange-rate mechanism ( ERM ) , the chancellor , Norman Lamont , might be tempted to cut interest rates , let the pound slide and worry about the inflationary consequences later . |
| 10 | Looking to our right we recognised the Cottages with the road in front of them close to the ditch ; also our Professor 's stable , coach-house and dog kennels , with the back entrance from the road to his garden … we were soon in King 's Road [ Pancras Way ] which we found to be well studded with trees on each side … to our left the Country residence of Counsellor Agar [ builder of Agar 's Town ] … we turned to the right and first took notice of the front of our Professor 's house with its large garden protected from the pathway and road by a brick wall . |
| 11 | Many of the locations were just outside Pinewood 's front door . |
| 12 | ‘ Social evolution ’ and its application to modern English society were already in Eliot 's mind . |
| 13 | Passionate , throbbing tangos , La Paloma and La Cumparsita were more in Elinor 's line and Nigel was eager to continue his dancing lessons . |
| 14 | On the well-defined Teviotdale road they proceeded next morning , and now were able to check at the villages and communities they passed that they were still on Balliol 's route , without the time-consuming searching for tracks . |
| 15 | The shape and texture of the man 's body were still before Helen 's eyes , but as an image , a picture once seen . |
| 16 | Judging by his office suite , and his strictly localized charisma , I assumed that the old people were partly in Kreditor 's care . |
| 17 | Former Hartlepool and York City manager John Bird and Billy McEwan , ex-Sheffield United and Rotherham United , were also among Darlington 's applicants . |
| 18 | You know when I were up at Darren 's |
| 19 | when I were up at Darren 's . |
| 20 | ‘ I heard you were out at Dobson 's place last night . ’ |
| 21 | When they went through the first gate at the bottom of the hill they were out of people 's eyes for the first time since they had met . |
| 22 | What Lifshitz and Khalatnikov did was to study models of the universe that were roughly like Friedmann 's models but took account of the irregularities and random velocities of galaxies in the real universe . |
| 23 | These people certainly were n't on Moscow 's payroll . ’ |
| 24 | To a tourist weary of the overcrowded and faded resorts of the Mediterranean , Antigua and the Virgin Islands were indeed like Milton 's Paradise regained . |
| 25 | What secrets were there in Reni 's family ? |
| 26 | It was as clear as if bars were there before Fand 's face . |
| 27 | Tom quickly checked that the blacks were firmly on Willie 's window and disappeared down the ladder , holding a squirming Sammy in his arms . |
| 28 | For example , they selected only the second of Byrd 's two four-part In Nomines , and neither of the models ( by Tye and Parsons ) that were evidently in Byrd 's mind when he composed his own pair . |
| 29 | More embarrassing still for the Republican Party was the admission on March 17 that three former members of the House who were currently in Bush 's Cabinet — Defence Secretary Dick Cheney , Labour Secretary Lynn Martin , and Agriculture Secretary Edward Madigan — had also written uncovered cheques during the 39-month period ( July 1988-October 1991 ) covered by the investigation . |
| 30 | And young Paul Daly , the son of Brian , had a rather one-sided 21-10 win over Martin McHugh of Carrickfergus in the under-25 singles semi-final after McHugh selected to drive at the wrong time , which was right up Daly 's street . |