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 .
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