Example sentences of "[pron] be [prep] a [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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1 | Well I , well I 'm on a weeks ' holiday are n't I , at Easter ? |
2 | ‘ That 's all right , I 'm in a mate 's office . ’ |
3 | During the first two months I was on a King 's Kids Outreach Tour . |
4 | I was in a doctor 's house . |
5 | At a consultation you 're not in the vulnerable position that you are in a hairdresser 's chair . |
6 | You 're in a buyer 's market . ’ |
7 | I 've been gone just two days , and when I return you 're in a stranger 's clothes with a bandaged hand , and an odd expression on your face . ’ |
8 | If , if er if you were on a case er well if you could get out for a , for an hour in the afternoon for a walk , but that was about all . |
9 | ‘ Look at you , you 'd think you were at a suspect 's house instead of your daughter 's bedroom . |
10 | You know you know Sonia' been kicked out of her house and she 's in a children 's home somewhere or something . |
11 | but one that 's gon na top all that without any shadow of a doubt , he must be the youngest pensioner this side of the Mississippi and that 's Alan , retired executive officer who 's on a busman 's holiday this week Roger union solicitor Bill retired N I O , hopefully wo n't be having any accidents this week retired education and training manager . |
12 | Sit her on a stranger 's knee and she may seem content , but compare her rigid posture with how relaxed she is on a parent 's knee . |
13 | She described how she was at a butcher 's shop when she noticed James had gone . |
14 | One was that , since she was on a fool 's errand anyway , she was n't going to dress up for it . |
15 | Last night , hundreds of calls were received by police after the BBC Crimewatch programme reconstructed the moment that James wandered away from his 25-year-old mother , Denise , while she was in a butcher 's shop . |
16 | They asked Meehan , who was in a neighbour 's room , about a gas meter and a broken window and Mohammed Mansha told him he would have to pay for the damage . |
17 | Well I think it was the maternity because I mean she had had eleven pregnancies so I think she she was very , very erm able to talk about it and I , I do n't , I know Dad had got a good job in the , well if you can call any pit job a good job , but say that the money was decent , but I know that she always had to have two doctors and it was , it was in those days we were , it was good we were in a doctor 's club because , you know , you had n't got any er the maternity and , and the , and the ante- natal and pre-natal and goodness knows what that we 've got today . |
18 | What proof can there be of a man 's feelings ? |
19 | Yeah and there 's er as you go over the top there 's like a postman 's passage and you go past where you turn into it there 's in the corner there . |
20 | The net result is that there is no more reason to believe that our brains are like a cat 's than there is to believe that they are like a rat 's . |
21 | It was immediately apparent they were in a lady 's room . |
22 | ‘ Of course I do , ’ he replied , relaxing and stretching his long legs out in front of him , so that they were within a hair 's breadth of brushing against hers . |
23 | The lads that are on strike well I mean you 'd think it 'd be vice versa him being like a blackleg er that 's er they 'd be agitating but he 's vice versa . |
24 | It 's a , it 's at a hotel int it Gordon ? |
25 | It 's not , it 's for a research com , thing . |
26 | of the ward on the right erm , and er , it 's like a mens ' ward . |
27 | ‘ It 's like a winter 's afternoon , not a summer 's one , ’ commented Maggie , switching on her lights Charlie nodded . |
28 | Aye yeah that 's that that that I mean I 've went to that doctor and and it 's like a doctor 's surgery surely is should be sacrament yo you should n't , know what I mean ? |
29 | It is for a Mr erm , Ridgeway , and it 's for a two storey extension to an existing house . |
30 | Adoption workers need to accommodate in their thinking and practice more than one concept simultaneously , that is , the achievement of ‘ open ’ adoption or adoption with contact where it is in a child 's interests but within a framework of legal security . |