Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | In that case , we want to be around for the big money in the fourth , fifth and sixth records . |
2 | ‘ I plan to be around over the next few weeks while we get this new image launched , and we expect you to be very visible . |
3 | The primitive mammals that happened to be around in the three areas when the dinosaurs more or less simultaneously vacated the great life trades , were all rather small and insignificant , probably nocturnal , previously overshadowed and overpowered by the dinosaurs . |
4 | You sure seem to be on to a good thing with this Walter Machin [ the letter said ] . |
5 | General Pershing is the one to be on at the big race . |
6 | Erm y'know erm it 's also erm perhaps interesting the way things have er have shifted you know in the last decade or so , like that thing that erm used to be on in the seventies , It Ai n't Half Hot Mum , with um a number of people pretending to be Indians and and exhibiting all the stereotypes y'know it ai n't half racist mum is probably more erm er in fact there was a book called It Ai n't Half Racist Mum that er Leicester University library had er y'know going on about exactly that you know the sort of y'know racism of comedy . |
7 | To fit everything in here you have to be up for an early breakfast . |
8 | I honestly believe that because they 're certainly not strong enough erm to be up with the top boys , well they 're not going to disgrace themselves having said that , as I said before , the League 's pretty well evened out , but I think they 'll be at the lower part rather than the top part . |
9 | For that you have to be up against the real thing . |
10 | So far as I can see , unless there are fundamental changes in the British economy , the recession ai n't going to be over for a considerable time because the economy is in such a state . |
11 | CHESTER 'S tuberculosis scare appears to be over as the first results of tests on 500 children were released yesterday . |
12 | Bush has pledged cooperation until Clinton 's inauguration on January 20 and seemed almost relieved to be through with a vicious campaign . |
13 | The bond which had drawn them so close before Angel 's birth was strong and sometimes Sarah longed to be back for a brief time in that dilapidated house in Stone Alley , free of the sanctimonious atmosphere of the rectory , until she remembered Maggie was n't there any more either . |
14 | I hope to be back for the first leg with Manchester United . |
15 | Crowther , 59 , hopes to be back for the new series next year , but wo n't be well enough for the show on January 2 . |
16 | By then they need to be back on the winning trail which hopefully will start on Saturday against Moseley . |
17 | It was quite a drive and quite a list for when she got there , so she was unlikely to be back before the early evening ; but this was no great problem , because they 'd soon be closing the doors so that they could make a start on the next day 's preparations . |
18 | Simon Wright did n't expect to be back from the High Court for at least another week . |
19 | We stepped off the plane into warm balmy air , happy to be back amongst the many English and Maltese friends we have made here . |
20 | PFS expects to be back in the black for the full year . |
21 | Was this the Devil himself come to fetch them , black cloaked and wealthy , splenetic and anxious to be back in the warm place he came from … |
22 | Much as I had enjoyed ‘ my Soviet adventure ’ it was good to be back in an English-speaking land again . |
23 | ‘ All members of the team are to be down in the lower block , with their kit , half an hour before lock-up … |
24 | Novell believes systems software is one of the least assailable markets to be in during the coming decade . |
25 | The Sports Minister , more than most , knows what it 's like to be in with a dangerous hooker . ’ |
26 | You had to be in at a certain time you know , you had very standard cuisine , it was , it had become if you like , ridiculed in jokes and things of this nature . |
27 | To come somewhere like this would have been better , somewhere where I had to be in at a certain time , where I could n't have certain people come in . |
28 | As every girl has her own individual subjects , the teaching is on a one-to-one basis , and each has cards showing her particular set work which has to be in at a certain time . |
29 | These days , it always seems to be in at the deep end for Foreign Secretary , Douglas Hurd . |
30 | This bereaved pensioner was glad to be in at the present death . |