Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] be [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I stayed right where I was on the floor telling myself I 'd be fine in just a few minutes . |
| 2 | That was very early on in my filming if anyone had asked me I would have said ‘ I 'm always on the move , you know I never sit down in a lesson , and I do n't sit down but where I was on the move was in a very limited space so just having the camera at the back on that table , just having it still showed me so much about what was going on in the room and how you use the time … |
| 3 | Cunning — she could find out where I was from the town code . |
| 4 | ‘ If it was necessary to come to a decision on this aspect , I would have to say that , in my judgment , to go from the grandmother 's house where she is at the moment and leaving the job she has in Birkenhead with the Social Services Department , to Canada with no work and no money and living on charity and food banks , would be an intolerable situation for the child . |
| 5 | I 'll have her brought down here to Florence as soon as she can be moved but we 'll have to leave her where she is for the moment — in fact , put me through to Pontino again now , will you ? |
| 6 | Emily is in her first year at Perin 's School where she is in the netball team , and also plays flute and piano . |
| 7 | She then went onto Yale Law School where she was on the board of the law review and met her husband . |
| 8 | Mr Loveitt ignored Jess who remained where she was by the wall . |
| 9 | The moral to be drawn from this sad episode is : ‘ Do n't put your money into any business you can not understand , and where you are at the mercy of the advice given by others , however trustworthy . ’ |
| 10 | New identikit cities where it will not much matter where you are in the world . |
| 11 | 1 State exactly where you were at the time ( if in a motor vehicle please give number ) . |
| 12 | The Government wish to discuss neither where we are on the economy nor what we can do about it . |
| 13 | This consolidates our marketing network in the Puget Sound area , where we are among the market leaders . |
| 14 | What were the advantages of placing the British Aerospace factories where they are on the map ? |
| 15 | Kangaroo rats and spring-hares use their holes , as the tortoise does , to shelter from the heat ; hyaenas and wolves as nurseries ; badgers and armadillos as dormitories in which to slumber during the day after foraging at night ; and mice and rabbits as sanctuaries where they are beyond the reach of most of their enemies . |
| 16 | The top outside corner of every working page is labelled to remind instructors and other readers of exactly where they are in the course as they work through it . |
| 17 | Agitation by Serbs in Croatia came to a head with the unilateral proclamation on Oct. 1 by the so-called Serbian National Council of an " autonomous region " comprising those districts where they were in the majority . |
| 18 | ‘ He has had his problems this season with a knee injury to overcome but it is great that he has got where he is at the moment , ’ said Dalglish , who would not even confirm that he will give Paul Warhurst , his £2.7 million signing from Sheffield Wednesday , an Anfield debut . |
| 19 | ‘ He has had his problems this season with a knee injury to overcome but it is great that he has got where he is at the moment , ’ said Dalglish , who would not even confirm that he will give Paul Warhurst , his £2.7 million signing from Sheffield Wednesday , an Anfield debut . |
| 20 | ‘ We 're not sure where he is at the moment because he 's on leave , ’ said Major Astle . |
| 21 | Major Astle said : ‘ We 're not sure where he is at the moment because he 's on leave . |
| 22 | Robert , Kim 's father , has since moved to Paignton Zoo in South Devon , where he is in the company of some more mature females ! |
| 23 | Dudley was officially to hear of his wife 's death the following day , when a messenger was despatched from Cumnor Place to Windsor Castle where he was with the Queen . |
| 24 | He had not got where he was at the age of thirty-three by giving way to pointless speculation and neurotic inner enquiry . |
| 25 | He had n't got where he was in the world without knowing how to get what he wanted , and he appeared to want her . |
| 26 | I had to know exactly where he was in the room . |
| 27 | Thus , along the south coast of England the movement of material is eastwards , while on the east coast , where the dominant winds are north-east , it is southwards , except along part of the north Norfolk coast where it is towards the west . |
| 28 | Establish exactly where it is with the aid of the locator system … and then introduce your Norfolk long-spade. push the blade 10 or 12 inches ( 25 or 30 centimetres ) into the ground immediately above the exact position of the ferret as defined by the locator and then put your ear to the ash shaft of the long-spade . |
| 29 | Section 50C(2) provides a specific example of when this may be necessary , that is , where it is for the purpose of error correction . |
| 30 | Since harm was the guiding principle , section 2(4) provided that ‘ a person publishing an article shall not be proceeded against for an offence at common law … where it is of the essence of the offence that the matter is obscene ’ . |