Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] be [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had lunch and then sat on the wheelbarrow swatting flies , neither willing to go further out of my way , nor to return , just in case I was on the right track . |
| 2 | For a change I was in the right place at the right time and got a job , with housing , at the Folger Theatre in Washington DC . |
| 3 | ‘ Of course I was on the same squadron as him for a time . ’ |
| 4 | Previous application of this method ( viz. a 1-stage Delphi with interactive feedback ) earlier in this research programme has shown that many employers embarking often for the first time on strategic employment policy-making require some means of obtaining confirmation they are on the right lines . |
| 5 | An etymologist he was to the bitter end . |
| 6 | Lord Keith at p 640 said , as a general rule it is in the public interest that confidences should be respected , and the encouragement of such respect may in itself constitute a sufficient ground for recognising and enforcing the obligation of confidence even where the confider can point to no specific detriment to himself . |
| 7 | ‘ It is important that your bank knows everything about your business so that if you have to go to them for help they are in the best position to five assistance . |
| 8 | And I think there is this dividing line that there is the pure craft where the object is functional and is made for a specific purpose , but is beautifully made , but there is also the craftsman who crosses the barrier between art and craft , who makes beautiful objects that are perhaps non functional , and then of course you 're in the controversial field . |
| 9 | Er , yes sir my current position er , at the moment I 'm at the licensed house trainee manager for Boddingtons Brewery and I 've held that position for five and half years . |
| 10 | At the moment she 's on an extended holiday . ’ |
| 11 | She was n't a pretty woman , but to Erlich 's eye she was about the best there could be . |
| 12 | I sense it the moment we are inside the front door . |
| 13 | And at the moment we 're on the ninth of this month , I received a copy today they s they sent me some material , erm they 've actually been given photographs by people like er Ansell Adams , Fay Goodwin , er David er Bailey . |
| 14 | I 'm only scoring like , opponents wrong score we 're in the wrong lane . |
| 15 | For this session the Celebration room has to be the sacred place it is at the integrated session . |
| 16 | than that dear it 's down the other end , the other side of Old Harlow , but he used to have a surgery there which he , you know , made it better after the erm , to ease up Dr surgery cos that was so packed and the shops were absolutely and you used to have to queue and queue for , to get your shopping , you could n't , I used to cycle into Harlow and leave my cycle somewhere and then go along do my shopping , but it used to be two or three hours ' job it was , you did n't get done till dinner time and then I used to call it a , a lady used to say call there that used to have the fried fish and chip shop on the corner of erm Harlow and I used to go there and have a cup of tea before I came home because I used to be so long shopping you could n't get served you see , it 's too many people , there was nowhere else for them to go , it was only Bishop 's Stortford you had to go |
| 17 | But at the conference it was for the first time agreed to allow the constituency parties to elect their own separate representatives to the National Executive , and this at once led to the appearance in this category of Sir Stafford Cripps , Professor Harold Laski and D. N. Pritt — all advocates of close collaboration with the Communist Party , and Pritt indistinguishable from an actual card-carrying member . |
| 18 | At 206 on the Townsend index for social deprivation it is in the worst 5% of all electoral wards in Wales , chiefly because of high male unemployment . |
| 19 | And er I I would honestly put it in the , in the March period it 's on the second |
| 20 | It 's at a lovely venue it 's at the Great Central Railway at Loughborough . |
| 21 | That afternoon we were with an African business man . |
| 22 | The sun gradually ate up the mist until by the afternoon we were in a blazing oven under a burned blue sky . |
| 23 | and I said who 's that ? and he went oh god , shit we 're in the wrong tent and they went out and you can hear 'em I mean being a tent they 're laughing their head off for about half an hour |
| 24 | They might be shocked if they realized their destructive influence on those they meet Last night I was at a social gathering . |
| 25 | Last night I was in a furious rage because Edward asked me to go to his home this afternoon , and he would show me some flowers and nests he thought I would like to see . |
| 26 | I found them , and in a minute I was in the first room , where Bersonin and Detchard were . |
| 27 | I 've said more'n once to Bessie Beavis what a credit you was to the human race . ’ |
| 28 | On this occasion she is at a posh party , where she has taken a glass of champagne , but only ‘ to be sociable ’ — a motive which in anyone else would have driven Patrick to contemplate another of the umpteen blows he feels like unleashing — when the novelist unleashes one of his phonological jokes , which play on vagaries of pronunciation . |
| 29 | As soon as Luce had been helped in and settled the gondolier plied his oar , and in less than a minute they were on the Grand Canal . |
| 30 | He had a point or two to make about the present regime but if there was a hint of criticism it was of the gentlest sort . |