Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] be [pos pn] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | One of them was my friend Ada 's brother , a men 's hairdresser . |
2 | The last Menzies saw of him was his head turning , his mouth uttering inaudible words , as a heavy door ground backwards and then slammed shut . |
3 | In the car with her were her boyfriend Peter , his sister Jane and another school friend Lucy . |
4 | With her was her brother Charles — who inherited the home and the title Earl Spencer when their father died in March — his wife Victoria and their daughters Kitty , two , and six-month-old twins Eliza and Katya . |
5 | So if you are using these , I 've got one of these at home in my lounge and the only thing that I run from it is my television set and the video recorder . |
6 | And now she had one bony hand extended towards Charles at the top of the table and in it was her dinner fork with a piece of meat still speared on it . |
7 | The first thing I noticed about her was her leg callipers and crutches , but by the second day her disability had been overshadowed by her strength of character . |
8 | Next in age to him was his brother Frank , born in 1770 ; then followed his sister Ann ( or Nancy ) , dearly loved and lost early , then his brothers Luke and George . |
9 | Perched on a stool next to her is her friend Barbara , a fat blond whose ample figure and dumpling smile fit the Slavic stereotype better . |
10 | On it were her confirmation cross and the farthing Rob had given her soon after they met . |
11 | Chief among them are her sister Georganne and actress Michelle Pfeiffer , a best pal since their hit movie The Witches Of Eastwick . |