Example sentences of "[be] [pers pn] [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why am I always in the shit ? |
| 2 | Patrick , crouched over his books at the other end of the table , never asked his advice ; but then Patrick had always been faintly hostile and jealous of a masculine encroachment on a territory that had been his alone since the departure of the two eldest boys . |
| 3 | ‘ Are you here for the trial ? ’ she asked Suvarov , trying to stop herself from thinking about those feelings . |
| 4 | Are you still on the moon ? |
| 5 | ‘ Are you really from the Security Service ? |
| 6 | Are you there in the dark ? |
| 7 | Are you there in the dark ? |
| 8 | Are you there in the dark ? |
| 9 | ‘ Or are you all over the place ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Are you quite at the end of your resources , that you can not provide a meal of fish , or eggs or cheese ? |
| 11 | Are they really worth the amount of paper that 's expended on them ? |
| 12 | How long did you actually leave the er how long were you away from the car for ? |
| 13 | Were you here on the day your Joy ? |
| 14 | ‘ Were you here in the war ? ’ |
| 15 | Were you backstage during the show ? ’ |
| 16 | Were they completely off the cuff or did you have some idea of what you were going to do ? |
| 17 | And that 's a , and that 's them all over the country , not only Edinburgh , all over the country , in north south east and west and you name it . |
| 18 | So it 's , it 's a year , er what , what part of the course has , has Jana come in on — the first year or is she somewhere in the middle ? |
| 19 | She 's just keep wondering why 's he away to the loo again ! |
| 20 | So that 's it , that 's , so that 's it then for the modernization of the Party 's constitution , we we what happened at Brighton was the end of the process was it ? |
| 21 | It 's stuck well you eat that and then that 's it now for the day nothing more . |
| 22 | Finally , is the language behaviour of these " London Jamaican " speakers the sort of behaviour that characterises bilinguals , or is it more like the behaviour of monolinguals who style-shift from time to time in response to conversational and situational factors ? |
| 23 | ‘ Is he here on the key or is he safe ? ’ |
| 24 | Is he always in the red ? |
| 25 | ‘ Was he really in the Merchant Navy ? ’ |
| 26 | erm Anyway , it 's just about there , and then , almost next door , presumably in competition with each other is the other inn , the Unicorn Inn , erm so that was it just on the South Side of Blue Boar Lane . |
| 27 | Was it just in the summer he came around ? |
| 28 | Was it right at the end of a distinguished public servant 's long career to reduce him to such misery ? |
| 29 | Was it generally in the middle or at one end or |
| 30 | Did you intend them as a short-term loan , retrievable when your contract with Sarella was over , or was it more in the line of outright theft ? |