Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] be [prep] the [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 | Well it was steady income I was in the house every night my wife was happy . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | One of the killers allegedly said : ‘ If you guys ai n't got no money I 'm in the mood to kill tonight . ’ |
| 6 | Within minutes I was inside the camp , where I hoped to meet the tinkers who had tried to rob me at Killorglin . |
| 7 | By the time I am back in the tent I am on the borderline , cold enough to wake Tony with disjointed movements . |
| 8 | At times I was on the way down and the ball was on the way up . |
| 9 | 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 ! |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ( WES AD LIB ) ( ANNE ) After the break we 're on the water and in the air . |
| 14 | Two er one , if it 's a two bedroom they 're into the caravan outside . |
| 15 | With sets like the Navstar 2000D and the Decca Mark IV costing £560 they are within the reach of many serious boat anglers . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ … 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 . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The meaning is not in the words it 's in the way you say it is n't it ? |
| 20 | In other words it was on the basis of substitution . |
| 21 | Hence it was that in many subjects he was behind the knowledge of the day . |
| 22 | Last time we ‘ phoned Richard he was in the middle of roasting a duck for birthday meal with Roger and Katie ( his ‘ lodger ’ ) . |
| 23 | AT 9 PM he was on the operating table . |
| 24 | Now , I can hold my liquor as well as the next man , so it is ludicrous to suggest that when I reversed the club van into the tea hut I was under the influence . |
| 25 | T. D. I was on the beat round Stanley Hospital and I got to this point at four o'clock on the Saturday morning . |
| 26 | So er when I was , I was on the county council I was on the welfare committee and er in later years I was on the planning committee . |
| 27 | For a second she was on the point of executing Ace for insubordination . |
| 28 | He said this week : ‘ If we do n't get grants for this work we 're on the dole . |
| 29 | Er , but in the long run we 're on the lookout to continue to build both organically and by acquisition where appropriate er , on , on the main sectors . |
| 30 | Then at work they are at the whim of the boss . |