Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [is] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the animals that live along the hedgerows unfortunately only come out at night and the best way to see them is in the light of a car 's headlamp . |
| 2 | The most extreme way of protecting them is for the mother to carry them around within her own body . |
| 3 | I do n't know where your plectrum is , I expect it 's on the floor somewhere waiting for my hoover to get it ! |
| 4 | Say it 's for the snapper . ’ |
| 5 | Again as you say it 's in the middle of nowhere in n it ? |
| 6 | BLENDING It is in the blending room that the mature Scotch Whiskies are combined with each other , finely balancing the characteristics and ages of the individual grain whiskies and malt whiskies . |
| 7 | He 's so quiet now you forget he 's in the house . |
| 8 | Since the Vendor will have entered into the relevant contracts in the first place it is for the Vendor to take the risk as saying whether or not the contracts fall within these categories . |
| 9 | the he gets , if he 's not driving he 's in the van , you know |
| 10 | Unless they say he 's on the bottle . |
| 11 | ‘ She says she 's in the garden ! ’ he thought . |
| 12 | " Some woman says she 's from the paper . |
| 13 | Their own anger with their mother for not being there is then attributed to her , and their fear results from believing she is in the rage that they themselves are in . |
| 14 | He 's trying to enlist my sympathy by pretending he 's in the grip of some third thing . |
| 15 | The singer Frankie Vaughan says he 's on the mend , but lucky to be alive after a two-hour emergency operation . |
| 16 | I 'VE heard of prisoners going on the run to prove their innocence , but here 's a prisoner who says he 's on the run to prove his GUILT . |
| 17 | I says he 's in the Army . |
| 18 | Pausanias says he is on the god 's left , and I conclude that he is using the words from the spectator 's point of view , as I believe he does in his account of Polygnotos 's paintings at Delphi . |
| 19 | The local authority says it 's against the idea and has taken the property off the market . |
| 20 | ‘ It says it 's from the Editor . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Oh , it says it 's from the Editor . |
| 22 | Teleglobe Canada Inc , Toronto says it is in the process of filing a $Can125m — about $100m — final prospectus in all provinces of Canada : the prospectus covers 10-year unsecured debentures with a coupon of 8.35% , and the joint lead managers of the underwriting group will be RBC Dominion Securities Inc and Nesbitt Thomson Ltd and will include Levesque Beaubien Geoffrion Inc and Scotia McLeod Inc . |
| 23 | The latter may simply reply that he does not feel it is in the public 's interest , or that the Police Authority does not strictly require it to effectively carry out its duties . |
| 24 | I hope he 's in the club and everything , they all try and out do each other . |
| 25 | The casualness , and implicit disvaluation of her contained in that form , are exposed by her reply in verse : Even after her thirty-line speech of pathos and wifely love , describing his disturbed dreams , when Hotspur answers it is in the verse of public business , ignoring all that she has said : ‘ What ho ! |
| 26 | There is not a suggestion that one of these missiles were returned ; there is not one suggestion which can be made by anybody , no matter how evilly disposed he is to the organizer of the procession or to the purpose of the procession , that any violence was offered by a member of that procession . |
| 27 | The poem St Erkenwald is a variant of that tale ; some people have argued it is by the author of Sir Gawain and Pearl . |
| 28 | When you backshift it 's like the chain 's come off so I just use the rear brake to settle the suspension and stop the rear end from going crazy . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ You mean she 's in the will ? ’ demanded Araminta shrilly . |
| 30 | I suspect she 's for the chop . |