Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [pron] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they met , Burn said that Donaldson had been to see him in the interim . |
| 2 | In the extracts from cases and other materials which follow , where the term ‘ sovereignty ’ is used , the judges or writers are using it in the sense of supremacy . |
| 3 | However , I am doing as the Daily Mirror suggested , and am contacting you in the hope that you can give me the answer . |
| 4 | ‘ Speaking crossly and rudely although Carrie had only been stewing indoors because she had been helping him in the shop ! |
| 5 | We are bracing ourselves in the Administration Centre for what promises to be an even better year two targetting very substantial growth over year one . |
| 6 | It would seem to me that if you 've got to prove a case that there that it is the place of last resort , and that place of last resort has got to be at least five thousand dwellings , you are in a place where there is absolute massive growth of demand , and improbably no one has been able to meet a five year supply of housing land , if you are to meet it in the term , if y if those are the criteria to meeting the terms of th of this sort of plan , and in fact what I would submit is that a new settlement solution is very much a part and parcel of a long term solution , and that 's where essentially the County strategy is quite right in proposing a new settlement in the context of the greenbelt , because also greenbelt is a long term solution . |
| 7 | He said When they are stabbing you in the back and behaving totally idiotically . |
| 8 | But I think we 're seeing something in the Forest side we have n't see for what twelve fourteen years are we . |
| 9 | I wonder if they 're keeping him in the morgue , by the way ? |
| 10 | ‘ You 're pushing me in the direction of flattery again , ’ he said softly . |
| 11 | It 's a couple of hours ’ drive from Berlin , and they 're expecting us in the morning . |
| 12 | I think there 's still too much ‘ You do that , you do this ’ in the big record companies , but that 's bollocks too , because without the artists knowing what they 're doing nobody in the record company would have a job . ’ |
| 13 | It 's only to create an impression when you 're doing it in the day time . |
| 14 | We 're taking you in the car . ’ |
| 15 | They are leading us in the direction of a central truth about life on Earth , the truth that I alluded to in my opening paragraph about willow seeds . |
| 16 | Dunwoody had in the past won on Norton 's Coin and would have been riding him in the Gold Cup had Desert Orchid been absent . |
| 17 | By the time they had run the half-mile back to their barracks the tiger that had been stalking them in the penumbra had emerged from his cover . |
| 18 | The stuff they 've been giving me in the ward was like a milk soup . |
| 19 | The answer had been staring him in the face . |
| 20 | It 's been staring me in the face . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ It 's been staring me in the face , ’ Carlson continued . |
| 22 | Anyway , you know , I 'd been er , it has been staring me in the face for so often . |
| 23 | ‘ Your deadly weapon has been staring you in the face from the moment you first arrived here , Fakrid , ’ he said . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's been staring us in the face all this time . |
| 25 | Actually , as R. A. Fisher , one of the founding fathers of what is now called neo-Darwinism , has pointed out , this fact of particulate inheritance has always been staring us in the face , every time we think about sex . |
| 26 | ‘ He can operate as a defender , a sweeper or a midfielder , and I 'll be using him in the midfield role . |
| 27 | For liberty to be opposing it in the way that they are shows that they do n't remotely understand the best interests of our children or our schools . |
| 28 | Some deep throbbing vibration seemed to be keeping him in the air , and his limbs ached . |
| 29 | Yesterday Darlington 's Liberal Democrat and Conservative candidates visited the school to meet the teenagers who will be representing them in the school election on April 3 . |
| 30 | How bitter must he be to find himself in the position in which he was now ? |