Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] be [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I gave my genuine reason for returning earlier , which was the Arts Council 's monthly meeting , in which I was deeply interested and whose chairman I was at the time . |
| 2 | ‘ Of course I was at the time . |
| 3 | Of course I was in a fever to hear again , but as his regiment was sent back into the line , I did not have further word till April , when he responded to that phrase with the comment : ‘ I think you would consider that this lily has grown into rather a thistle … seriously , though , I 'm not the same little lad you last saw ; I feel so much older because of my life in the last year . ’ |
| 4 | Well it was steady income I was in the house every night my wife was happy . |
| 5 | He remembered one of the gunmen kept repeating : ‘ If you guys ai n't got no money I 'm in the mood to kill tonight . ’ |
| 6 | One of the killers allegedly said : ‘ If you guys ai n't got no money I 'm in the mood to kill tonight . ’ |
| 7 | Within minutes I was inside the camp , where I hoped to meet the tinkers who had tried to rob me at Killorglin . |
| 8 | By the time I am back in the tent I am on the borderline , cold enough to wake Tony with disjointed movements . |
| 9 | At times I was on the way down and the ball was on the way up . |
| 10 | Er l After I finished my apprenticeship I was in a union . |
| 11 | During the first two months I was on a King 's Kids Outreach Tour . |
| 12 | And then eight or nine weeks after my happy entry into College I was on the carpet — kindly chat , of course , but none the less serious for not being a court martial ! |
| 13 | If anybody said , if , Tuesday we started , if anybody said on the , what they want sent them Wednesday , Thursday , Friday , take all the orders down under their appropriate names in the book but right an Mond Tuesday , Wednesday Thursday my day off and Friday and Saturday I was in the office . |
| 14 | Car crime , nine hundred and sixty cars so far this year have been broke into in the Portsmouth , bearing in mind yours are around the town . |
| 15 | As a minority shareholder you 're in no position to get anything out of Richard . |
| 16 | Ninety percent of them said yes , that it depends on how you present the figures , so in actual fact I wonder how our tenant farmers all of a sudden find themselves in a position that they perhaps would rather sign a petition and not put their heads above the parapet bearing in mind you are in a community , bear in mind you are connected , bear in mind that your livelihood is with those others and I have to say it is true that a certain business in my area connected with farming has been threatened . |
| 17 | on the other side of the sun and the moon 's on that side and we 're on that side we 're in the light . |
| 18 | ( WES AD LIB ) ( ANNE ) After the break we 're on the water and in the air . |
| 19 | Two er one , if it 's a two bedroom they 're into the caravan outside . |
| 20 | With sets like the Navstar 2000D and the Decca Mark IV costing £560 they are within the reach of many serious boat anglers . |
| 21 | And I remember , one afternoon , going out with the whole of the rating committee , to houses at Eastwood and Beeston , and other places , and m in effect measuring them by counting how many nine inch bricks they were across the front and back , to make sure that , you know , nobody was subsidizing anybody else . |
| 22 | ‘ … a more meaningful and relevant physical geography may emerge as the product of a new generation of physical geographers who are willing and able to face up to the contemporary needs of the whole subject , and who are prepared to concentrate on the areas of physical reality which are especially relevant to the man-oriented geography It is in the extinction of the traditional division between physical and human geography that new types of collaborative synthesis can arise . ’ |
| 23 | By the time she 'd sat up and pushed the dishevelled hair out of her eyes he was behind the wheel , and the car was moving forward . |
| 24 | In the corridor she had passed compartments full of young men playing cards , who looked up and appraised her face and figure with impersonal interest , and when she found another seat it was in a compartment with three other women travelling up to London on their own , all with suitcases and trim suits and carefully made-up faces . |
| 25 | So in other words it 's about an introduction an expansion and an end Now as I 've said tomorrow I 'll fill in a bit more detail on those so if you leave some some gaps there between those three sections . |
| 26 | The meaning is not in the words it 's in the way you say it is n't it ? |
| 27 | In other words it was on the basis of substitution . |
| 28 | Hence it was that in many subjects he was behind the knowledge of the day . |
| 29 | Oh no no that 's because those are pictures it 's like a chapter . |
| 30 | Finniston also believes that choosing a good successor is an important duty of a chairman , but as chairman of a nationalised industry he was in no position to do so . |