Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [prep] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I am like unto a leper here with all faces turned against me except your kind friend Miss Blagden and now she is gone too .
2 You know , my other two other branches were the same , I 'm doing a free appointment at , I 'm at at the moment , we 're supposed to get a two-weekly , when you do a free appointment , they 're supposed to sit down with every two weeks and tell you how you 're doing .
3 That 's what I 'm like on the inside .
4 but then , on the other hand , I 'm not the sort of person who , I mean , if it 's something like that I can ask people , but I 've got friends who are quite cheeky , who will ask things , I mean , like if somebody does something for me , I 'm like , are you sure , are you sure , you do n't mind , and like , I 'm like over the top the other way .
5 well what we do is that we we all know each-other 's hand- writing so we borrow each-other 's pens and like last night I did all of maths prep and he , we 'll both remember that , and then one night when I 'm like under a lot of pressure to do some prep , he 'll like return the favour
6 But I mean you know what I 'm like in a car I just sit there and then then your father turned in and there was all these , where we went to get the carpet , you know ?
7 I 'm gon na need it this week and or next Saturday cos I 'm in in the morning , and I 'm getting I think I 'm gon na get boots as well .
8 I kept my word to Jenkins and backed his proposals for all I was worth as a welcome , if minor , rationalization of the creaking old eighteenth-century ox-wagon of our criminal law .
9 And and I was I was in in the grocery on Monday morning but erm we were go through a pack of you know .
10 That is what I was after from the start , he wrote .
11 He said that 's when they put presents round and er he come in on the Friday on the Friday night and I mean I was in a right state , I mean we 've been in there about seven weeks and I was like at the point of like a nervous breakdown and he said to me how do you feel about me taking Matthew from you , so I said I he said I think you need a break .
12 I mean , you are in in the afternoon on Tuesday ?
13 Write about what you are like as a reader now : your interests , your favourite kind of reading , favourite authors , your strengths and weaknesses , how much you read at home , where and when you like reading , your ambitions as a reader .
14 I 'll kill him , they do n't worry , they do n't worry about what , what bills you 've got going out , I E a car on H P or your or erm furniture on H P , when you 're on on the dole you 're you ai n't supposed to have had any bills incurred
15 It just depends on where you 're at at the time .
16 Erm , you know , you can find this , to actually need to work on where you 're at in the cycle and why you 're there , and what it means , to what you 're trying to do .
17 We went with the sixth formers las last summer we went to see The Tempest and it 's such a beautiful place you know , it 's you 're outdoors but it 's quite weird the way they do it , because you 're like in a canopy but the actual stage it outdoors , so you 're covered but you get a bit cold and you need to take woollies and things , it can get a bit cold out there , but it should be nice in the summer .
18 Because i if you 're from outside the village you would have no entitlement to land in the village at all would you ?
19 I do n't know yet , I just said to Christy what time will you be in in the morning I do n't have time yet , in case if I have I can ask you .
20 then I would like er we 'd just talk about , I do n't know whatever , she 'd probably agree with everything I said as well because that 's what Catherine 's like but when she 's like with the rest of us she
21 You know what she 's like with the dog
22 I wonder what she is like at the theatre .
23 I wondered what she was like on the programme , you know ?
24 ‘ The idea of nicking a Stones riff and putting it behind a James Brown backbeat and howling over the top is pretty appealing , but it 's not really what we 're into as a band .
25 ‘ The idea of nicking a Stones riff and putting it behind a James Brown backbeat and howling over the top is pretty appealing , but it 's not really what we 're into as a band .
26 So unit four talks about how to plan erm how to plan it which is where we 're at at the minute .
27 Well every year erm we 're like at the moment a couple of light years away from it
28 Overall , fourteen high intensity blockage sites ( mole fraction greater than 0.025 ) were identified in the regions probed from the UV5 and N25 promoters and twelve of these are summarised in Fig. 5 in the form of a bidirectional transcription footprint ( note that sites at 106 and 110 from the UV5 promoter are not represented on this summation since they are outside of the region probed by the N25 promoter ) .
29 Consequently many students who find themselves unable to accept this definition of themselves , who have difficulty in constructing an identity as ‘ physicists ’ or ‘ physical scientists ’ , find that they are outside of the department , that they are gradually less and less successful in getting to grips with the subject .
30 It will surround the caster and any unit they are with with a shield of intense coldness .
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