Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't expect miracles from him after being out of the first team for seven weeks . |
| 2 | There was nearly a chance when he got locked in a lift at the Horseguards Hotel the other day , but the prospect of being out of the front line for a few hours was more than he could bear . |
| 3 | A more important point is that passages of this sort , spliced as they are with images like the lizard from the immediate foreground of Pound 's tent inside the wire-mesh cage of the prison camp , do not come into being out of the free associations of idle reverie , though in these Pisan cantos Pound exploits the illusion of that , as Joyce did in Ulysses when he pretended to transport himself and us into the mind of Leopold Bloom . |
| 4 | Byas hit 80 before being out in the final over and White was left unbeaten on 52 , the fifth-wicket pair smashing their way to 119 in 15 overs . |
| 5 | In that case , we want to be around for the big money in the fourth , fifth and sixth records . |
| 6 | ‘ I plan to be around over the next few weeks while we get this new image launched , and we expect you to be very visible . |
| 7 | The primitive mammals that happened to be around in the three areas when the dinosaurs more or less simultaneously vacated the great life trades , were all rather small and insignificant , probably nocturnal , previously overshadowed and overpowered by the dinosaurs . |
| 8 | You sure seem to be on to a good thing with this Walter Machin [ the letter said ] . |
| 9 | General Pershing is the one to be on at the big race . |
| 10 | Erm y'know erm it 's also erm perhaps interesting the way things have er have shifted you know in the last decade or so , like that thing that erm used to be on in the seventies , It Ai n't Half Hot Mum , with um a number of people pretending to be Indians and and exhibiting all the stereotypes y'know it ai n't half racist mum is probably more erm er in fact there was a book called It Ai n't Half Racist Mum that er Leicester University library had er y'know going on about exactly that you know the sort of y'know racism of comedy . |
| 11 | To fit everything in here you have to be up for an early breakfast . |
| 12 | I honestly believe that because they 're certainly not strong enough erm to be up with the top boys , well they 're not going to disgrace themselves having said that , as I said before , the League 's pretty well evened out , but I think they 'll be at the lower part rather than the top part . |
| 13 | For that you have to be up against the real thing . |
| 14 | So far as I can see , unless there are fundamental changes in the British economy , the recession ai n't going to be over for a considerable time because the economy is in such a state . |
| 15 | CHESTER 'S tuberculosis scare appears to be over as the first results of tests on 500 children were released yesterday . |
| 16 | Bush has pledged cooperation until Clinton 's inauguration on January 20 and seemed almost relieved to be through with a vicious campaign . |
| 17 | The bond which had drawn them so close before Angel 's birth was strong and sometimes Sarah longed to be back for a brief time in that dilapidated house in Stone Alley , free of the sanctimonious atmosphere of the rectory , until she remembered Maggie was n't there any more either . |
| 18 | I hope to be back for the first leg with Manchester United . |
| 19 | Crowther , 59 , hopes to be back for the new series next year , but wo n't be well enough for the show on January 2 . |
| 20 | By then they need to be back on the winning trail which hopefully will start on Saturday against Moseley . |
| 21 | It was quite a drive and quite a list for when she got there , so she was unlikely to be back before the early evening ; but this was no great problem , because they 'd soon be closing the doors so that they could make a start on the next day 's preparations . |
| 22 | Simon Wright did n't expect to be back from the High Court for at least another week . |
| 23 | We stepped off the plane into warm balmy air , happy to be back amongst the many English and Maltese friends we have made here . |
| 24 | PFS expects to be back in the black for the full year . |
| 25 | Was this the Devil himself come to fetch them , black cloaked and wealthy , splenetic and anxious to be back in the warm place he came from … |
| 26 | Much as I had enjoyed ‘ my Soviet adventure ’ it was good to be back in an English-speaking land again . |
| 27 | ‘ All members of the team are to be down in the lower block , with their kit , half an hour before lock-up … |
| 28 | Novell believes systems software is one of the least assailable markets to be in during the coming decade . |
| 29 | The Sports Minister , more than most , knows what it 's like to be in with a dangerous hooker . ’ |
| 30 | You had to be in at a certain time you know , you had very standard cuisine , it was , it had become if you like , ridiculed in jokes and things of this nature . |