Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] be [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't think I was on the same wavelength as the Prime Minister almost from the start , although I did work for her beforehand and try to pull together some of the policies . |
| 2 | But , now that , I mean I 'm in the second year of being a student , and I took on the position of women 's officer for the we , for the west of Scotland area |
| 3 | Where has she been for the last decade ? |
| 4 | If one says that they are both in the second row you will know they are on the two n's of nomen . |
| 5 | ‘ They are all blonde and are all about the same size and although none of them are identical you would know they are from the same family . |
| 6 | The powerboat world has been left high and dry this summer by a big red boat named Flippin Shytalk … its call sign is P69 … the only number that reads the same upside down … but the Oxfordshire crew that run and race her are on the very top of their sport at the moment … |
| 7 | A royal charter , read aloud by a villager on horseback , proclaims Seamer Fair to be open for business for the next seven days ; but it is not , nor has it been for the last fifty years . |
| 8 | John Coffin did not know he was on the wrong side yet , not having so far met Rose Hilaire , but he too realized that there might be a fight ahead . |
| 9 | They say it 's in the wrong place . |
| 10 | In the bucket in the cupboard Barry the Time Sprout woke suddenly to find he was in the wrong chapter . |
| 11 | When your own practice starts it is of the utmost importance to give your cases the most meticulous attention of which you are capable , and particularly , before going into court , to familiarise yourself with the various procedural contingencies . |
| 12 | But , once again , let me be on the positive side because I mean there 's no doubt about it there are firms which are doing extremely well in spite of recession at the moment , and they are training people as well , but they 're not training in numbers we really need when we go across the patch as a whole . |
| 13 | ‘ He never let me be in the sodding pictures . ’ |
| 14 | From the deadness of sound , I judged I was in the main roof-space . |
| 15 | I says yeah I says I 'm in the same boat . |
| 16 | Patrick Scott , managing director of BSB Datavision , said : ‘ I hope I am in the embarrassing situation of earning more than BSB . ’ |
| 17 | Dr ‘ Patterson ’ … patients here are very much consultant oriented , and no matter how much you may feel you 're on the right lines for treatment , they do expect to go along and see a consultant . |
| 18 | He looked at her with his blue eyes that made you feel you were in the far distance and he was bringing you into focus gradually , like a ball magnetised to drop into his outstretched hand , be clasped by his fingers . |
| 19 | But the figures show we are on the right track . ’ |
| 20 | Squatters have long felt they 're at the receiving end of a bad press and have have welcomed tonight 's opportunity to express their side of the story . |
| 21 | I think that , had the girls been from today 's society the situation may have been different but I will assume they are from the same background as the boys were . |
| 22 | He also liked to remind him that the first time he had seen him was during the military parade in Cairo to celebrate Kuhammad Rea 's marriage to Princes Fawzia in 1939 . " |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm sorry to disturb you , Mr Varna , but I have a Mr O'Neill here who says he is from the British and Cosmopolitan Assurance Company . |
| 24 | The Chief Prisons Inspector Judge Stephen Tumim says it 's among the worst prison accommodation he 's seen . |
| 25 | But society secretary Craig McCullough says it is in the wider interests of the group to listen to all viewpoints . |
| 26 | ‘ It was felt it was in the public interest to look at the company which was already insolvent , ’ said a DTI spokeswoman . |
| 27 | When she woke it was to the incessant chattering of the wheels against the rails and Emily thought she would never arrive at her destination . |
| 28 | We hope it 's for the best , ’ said Mr Gennady Gerasimov , the chief spokesman , in pithy words which encapsulate the bold leap towards the Common European Home that Mr Egon Krenz , with Moscow 's backing , has made . |
| 29 | I hope it 's in the other room hopefully . |
| 30 | The group finds that , for a given jet energy , the transverse momentum is always larger for the jet with lowest energy thin it is for the other two . |