Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] [was/were] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Italy 's defence was in chaos without him in the dismal 2–2 draw with Switzerland in their opening qualifying tie and he changed his mind yesterday under pressure from his wife and Italian federation president Antonio Matarrese . |
| 2 | Viewed by many as a vain upstart , de Gaulle 's stand was in fact inspired not by ambition but by a deeply-held belief in the grandeur of France . |
| 3 | Mme Guérigny once told me that Jean-Claude 's weakness was in part due to his exemplary sensitivity and in part to the damp in the cave , which had affected his lungs and his joints . |
| 4 | Noah 's faith was in a God Who makes promises and keeps them . |
| 5 | Roman 's sister was in her mid-twenties , enchantingly pretty , petite and slender , with short , shining dark curls and peachy skin . |
| 6 | Both the parents and Anna Jane 's sister were in constant attendance at the hospital , nursing her and stimulating her . |
| 7 | But Delaney 's plea was in vain . |
| 8 | Preston 's experience was in many ways typical of the other old market towns that had been overwhelmed by the cotton industry . |
| 9 | The building that housed Maidstone 's apartment was in poor shape . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Signe 's apartment was in a small block built over a row of shops . |
| 12 | He executed the run well , without mishap ; Edouard 's heart was in his mouth as he watched him . |
| 13 | One might claim Simon 's heart was in the right place , but his head — so it appeared to Markby — was all over the place . |
| 14 | Then Susan 's monster was in the square , towering above Daine 's statue . |
| 15 | Fedorov 's carriage was in view again , its outline jutting out from behind a heap of timber on the wharf . |
| 16 | Yanto 's mind was in a turmoil when he reached home that night . |
| 17 | Masklin 's mind was in turmoil . |
| 18 | Grant 's mind was in a whirl as he sought desperately for a way out . |
| 19 | Laura 's mind was in a whirl as she gazed at him silently for a moment . |
| 20 | Eardwulf 's adultery was in fact potentially serious because he became estranged from Eanbald ( II ) , archbishop of York , who succeeded his namesake in 796 . |
| 21 | Becker 's photograph was in the German newspapers yesterday , accompanied by lamentations about his physical condition after a knee injury had caused him to abandon the Classic on Thursday . |
| 22 | At present two fifths of the Warwick University Bookshop group 's turnover was in books , the rest in products that persuade the students to spend their money . |
| 23 | Jane Leeson went into the photographic studio and told her husband that Lowell 's girlfriend was in the reception area . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | During the mid-sixties the strongest pressures on the profession 's practice were in the area of conveyancing . |
| 26 | Meanwhile , Nigel Colborn 's The Good Old-Fashioned Gardener ( Letts , April , £17.95 , 1 85238 376 3 ) is a more historically minded book , reminding us how much of the pre-20th-century gardener 's practice was in fact organic . |
| 27 | George O'Grady , the Tournament Director , pointed out that Mason 's action was in defiance of Rule 19 , which states that " the ball shall be struck at the hole with the head of the club and not pushed , scraped or spooned " , in short , not the Steve Davis style . |
| 28 | Much of what the novelist wanted to say lay outside the murderer 's ken , and , as we shall see , Raskolnikov 's consciousness was in other , subtler ways too confining . |
| 29 | Without saying anything to his wife Lewis drove to Muswell Hill and checked that Adam 's car was in its garage . |
| 30 | 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 . |