Example sentences of "[pron] be [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am over at the big house within a couple of minutes , kilt on , best sporran and carrying the bagpipes , and prepared for anything . |
| 2 | I am back in the little room at the top of the spiral staircase on Wednesday morning and I am sitting on the Squeez-Ee box , with the minute in front of me , going through the remaining contents of the Quaker Oats archive , page by dusty page . |
| 3 | I 'm up against the six footer , and a five foot ten wife |
| 4 | About-to-be-ex-Lit-Ed , actually , come early January ( I 'm off to the Independent Magazine , which , although it 's the most literary colour supplement in town , does not and will not run book reviews ) ; but while there is a breath of bookish discernment left in my body , I suggest the following thoughts about the spring lists . |
| 5 | But then I started putting humbuckers in all my guitars and now I 'm back to the single coil thing , but just for playing in my hotel room . |
| 6 | But fuck it ; at least I 'm back in the real world , and with a modicum of control . |
| 7 | I 'm out of the multi-storey now and still running , though slower . |
| 8 | Cos I was going out in the fresh air , I 'm alright when I 'm out in the fresh air . |
| 9 | Soon Jacob and I were out on the lonely , snow-covered hills . |
| 10 | Well the next morning I was up at the top gate on picket and erm came with his van and he he spelted up through and the lads jumped one side well , I 'm nearly sixty five I did n't jump so quickly . |
| 11 | Yeah , I know th th th there 's three floors of it and I was , I was on like the bottom floor so |
| 12 | I enrolled for ‘ Art for Beginners ’ and later went down to the centre where the tutor had obtained a model for us from whom to do quick sketches — so I was in at the deep end . |
| 13 | Too soon , I was out on the other side , dazzled , like a man leaving a cinema in the afternoon . |
| 14 | So so really you 've got er I was out on the medical practices so I know how successful that can be . |
| 15 | Yet she would have been upstairs with the old man before I was out of the moonlit yard . |
| 16 | Not until I was out in the open countryside again , reassured by the songs of the birds and the murmur of streams did I feel that I had emerged from a dream and rejoined the familiar twentieth century . |
| 17 | I thought I was off on the usual , rather tedious type of assignment ! |
| 18 | Ten minutes later I was down on the private beach . |
| 19 | The hour winged past and it seemed no time at all before I was back on the top road waiting in the gathering darkness for the Scarborough bus . |
| 20 | By the 8th June , I was back in the front line . |
| 21 | So by November of the year I left Cambridge I was back in the black — being in the West End had enabled me to pay the overdraft off . |
| 22 | Continuing on past the huge oak door I had observed from the outside was another passage leading to a cloakroom , as the euphemism goes , otherwise a loo and wash basin and turning right I was back in the main area . |
| 23 | But she was frank and inaccessible as a Modigliani nude ; and I was back in the green glow of the glade — except that this time I too was observed . |
| 24 | He suspected that if he were to walk into the newsroom and make an arrest there would be only a momentary gasp before someone was out with the first of a new crop of jokes . |
| 25 | When he went home to his parents ' house in Ealing or to the Barbican , his grandmother drove him the mile and a half to Rickmansworth station , which is up on the northern end of the Metropolitan Line . |
| 26 | Trouble was he lived at Selsit , which was up over the Pennine Way , across the high moor , and it meant a three-hour trek there and back . |
| 27 | Climb a little higher and things become much smoother because you are out of the so-called ‘ ground effect ’ . |
| 28 | Although you may get ridiculously low because of pressing on too hard , when , a few minutes later , you are back in the good conditions several thousand feet up , you must forget the wasted time and concentrate on flying normally . |
| 29 | When you are back in the main square of the Malá Strana , imagine it encircled with medieval houses set above arcades . |
| 30 | Well , that 's good if it 's working well , it 's working well , but here , if you 're here , say for a late afternoon meeting or something , and you 're wondering what these screaming bells are , they 're the night bells , and you can pick them up by picking up your handset and pressing 8 and that is it , and you 're through to the outside world . |