Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [was/were] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd explained that his sister was on the pumps at the Smiling Service Filling Station , even though it was Good Friday . |
| 2 | His favourite was about the man who told a doctor : ‘ Yes . |
| 3 | His route was across the Niagara River above the falls . |
| 4 | ‘ Goodnight ! ’ she snapped , and went to slam the door shut on him — then found that his foot was in the way . |
| 5 | Before she could quite close the door , his foot was in the jamb . |
| 6 | A sobbing girl said : ‘ Gerard and his mum were in the living room when the shooting started . |
| 7 | The second episode which Mrs Whitehouse says she remembers with a mixture of ‘ amusement and incredulity ’ involved a scene in which Alf and his son-in-law were in the living room reading : Mike , a football book , and Alf a book that can not at first be seen . |
| 8 | When I first knew Emerson , the days of his glory were in the past . |
| 9 | He had to shave , grey bristles ; for Parker had gone bald suddenly ( and very young , a terrible fright , he had awoke one morning , all his hair was on the pillow ) and his wigs — he had three , short to long to shaggy ; the ploy , he hoped , visits to the barber — were black for blue . |
| 10 | Which was okay when he was younger ; his mother , she had helped him choose his first wigs ( even if he could not tell her the cause of his fright , all his hair was on the pillow ) . |
| 11 | When he woke up his hair was in the soup and his head on the rim of the plate , and his hostess had left the table . |
| 12 | Ferguson , for his part , can now look any supporter of his club in the eye and say that Gough having to commit the foul that debarred him from a Cup-tie verified the youngster 's ability to put an awkward pre-match situation out of his mind and play in a determined way that suggested his temperament was on the mend . |
| 13 | When the AA van arrived they informed him they could not take his car home unless he or his girlfriend were in the recovery van . |
| 14 | Do you know the American President and his adviser were in the malai capital at the time ? ’ |
| 15 | When his car was past the missile launchers , past the guards , he demanded speed . |
| 16 | His car was in the turning circle . |
| 17 | For a second his mind was off the ball , leaving it free for Patrick Lombard to belt in and whip it away , dribbling it for a few yards , then powering it to Mike , who , relishing his new freedom at Number Two , took it up field . |
| 18 | The spirit of his meticulousness was in the pile of freshly laundered shirts and handkerchiefs at the foot of the bed . |
| 19 | He was a good soldier , but his marriage was on the rocks . |
| 20 | His plan was for the contra leaders to set sail with their manifesto , or a version of it , to Philadelphia from Nicaragua . |
| 21 | As Faraday went deeper into electromagnetism , he began to leave his contemporaries behind ; his work was on the boundary between inductive experimental science and deductive physics , and failed to fit easily into either category . |
| 22 | Since the departure of Miss Harker he had become more surly than before and his drinking was on the increase . |
| 23 | His fist was about the size of a sack of potatoes . |
| 24 | His ad was in the paper again today . |
| 25 | His beak was like the tip Of a rose thorn As he pecked for the cheese . |
| 26 | By next day his picture was in the papers . |
| 27 | Meanwhile , Frano Botica helped himself to 24 points , two tries and eight goals , as Wigan beat French champions , Carcassonne 52–0 — and then admitted his job was on the line . |
| 28 | Mr Geddes added that his group was of the view that the Scottish Secretary , Ian Lang , had failed to consult the Scottish people about water privatisation and was pursuing the matter in spite of it not being included in the Conservative election manifesto . |
| 29 | His shop was at the sign of the Globe in Fleet Street . |
| 30 | His shop was in the merchants ' quarter of the city — a maze of buildings which had been divided and sub-divided , so great was the demand for space , which lay within the strictly enforced boundaries of the streets which radiated from the Golden Yurt like the spokes of a wheel . |