Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [prep] [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's er in the report that we produced , most of the families are in fact single parent families , most of them are on Social Security benefits and have been on for considerable periods of time , but there are a number of people who are in employment or who have had periods of employment , but they are in low paid jobs , so when you 're talking about an income of one hundred pounds a week , with the sort of housing costs there are and other costs , then there simply is n't enough money to go round . |
| 2 | I said , ‘ I 'm at One fifth Avenue , that 's Spring 7–7000 . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm on this milk shake diet , and it 's really working . |
| 4 | And , and I 'm against any Trust status which they tend to , to go because I believe that the beginning of our campaign that because was talking last year about Trust status it did alienate a lot of people against and said , why should we bother fighting for a hospital what would go Trust anyway . |
| 5 | Mhm I 'm in three squeak societies , four squeak societies . |
| 6 | I do n't feel I 'm in any sense vaudevillian or melodramatic . ’ |
| 7 | Put I 'm in full time education tick it pay for it she said er what you on then ? |
| 8 | Suddenly I was on first names terms . |
| 9 | I had a paper to say and they said there was too much money coming in here a week , because you were working that I could n't get anything and I , it said , I wrote , it , it all come when I wrote to say could I have relief off of prescriptions cos I was on that H I V at the time |
| 10 | My boyfriend knew nothing of these habits and the first move was to tell him , which relieved me incredibly ( actually to admit to someone how unhappy I was with these eating habits ) . |
| 11 | From time to time , and I think mainly to keep in touch , Aunt Janie would ring me to ask if I could come to the house to help with a small task , such as fixing the cellar door , hammering in a stray loose plank over the cistern and so on — although she must have known as well as I did how useless I was at such household chores . |
| 12 | Julian Charley , to Edward England , my publisher , and to St. John 's College , Nottingham , where I was at that time principal , and by whose Governors I had been given study leave in order to write the book . |
| 13 | ‘ He was absolutely weighed down with medals , ’ he recalls , ‘ and by that stage , with so many royal people there , I was in automatic bowing mode . |
| 14 | ‘ I was in that telephone kiosk within a minute of the shunt . ’ |
| 15 | I bear you no ill will , for well I found the tables entirely turned upon me , and that I was in far ore danger from you than you were from me for I was just upon resolving to defy all the censures of the world and to make you publicly and openly my wife . " |
| 16 | I dyed my hair every colour under the sun , and I was in this all-women band , we wore lots and lots of make-up and these really baggy dresses in wild colours , which covered our whole bodies — we all dressed the same . |
| 17 | When I woke up I was in some back alley . |
| 18 | When any of our neighbours wanted firewood theirs was from old fish boxes , but they had it cheap at a penny a bowlful , and ‘ no tick ’ , ‘ cash on the nail , ’ as he said firmly . |
| 19 | Had she been in any way party to that act ? |
| 20 | ‘ Have you been to eleven Creffield Road ? ’ he asked smugly . |
| 21 | Erm you are of equal management status your abilities are the same erm why should you be differentiated from him . |
| 22 | Here you are for best results treat autumn or spring . |
| 23 | Send your answers by computer please ( or by post if you are in New Model Army ) to Thrills Moonwalker Competition And then be the first of two people out of the spangly hat . |
| 24 | Wh while you 're on that madam chairman , I 've had two persons er contact me as regarding , you know playing field and er it 's a no go for dogs is n't it , and th and we therefore the people have mentioned they had to go down the side of the playing field onto the onto the old , and er have we an obligation to er to pave not pave it but er make it , it 's a very steep bank , a very steep old ladies dare n't go down , and they know they 're breaking the law by taking the dog in the in the er recreation ground , and I just wondered whether we had an obligation to er . |
| 25 | If you 're into this counting lark , D. microlepis has 95–105 scales in the unbroken , arched lateral line but there are only 55–70 with D. quadrifasciatus |
| 26 | You 're like that girl Flavia : you think I do n't know what goes on around me , but I 've got my eyes open . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ You 're in that early-evening soap opera , are n't you — the one set in a hospital ? ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Perhaps you 're in that holly bush over there ? ’ |
| 29 | If you get caught with more than seven tablets you 're in big time trouble . ’ |
| 30 | Everybody expects you to be really loud and if you 're in any way quiet they think you 're nervous but you might n't be . |