Example sentences of "be [prep] [pron] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nearly always some compromise can be reached with the vendor , depending on whether it is a buyer 's or a seller 's market , but at least you will have the satisfaction of knowing that you 've been through everything with a fine tooth comb , that you 've done the best you possibly can and know what you are letting yourself in for ! |
| 2 | Surely all three are for us among the great achievements of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries ? |
| 3 | I 've been after them for a long time and I 'll get them for this . ’ |
| 4 | I remember at the time Wilko saying how he though Kerslake was an excellent buy , and how he 'd been after him for a long time . |
| 5 | It can be carried out at any time when you feel the need , for example , when you are near anybody with a cold or ‘ flu ; when you are experiencing any form of fear ; when others are indulging in negative emotions ; in noisy surroundings ; first thing in the morning and last thing at night ; after meditating or giving intuitive aromatherapy massage . |
| 6 | The plot centres around an aristocratic sportsman who in turn becomes the subject of a manhunt : he is alone against the world , but we are with him through every breathless paragraph . |
| 7 | Many who are with him on a daily basis support him because he is their only hope . |
| 8 | I think that had you not been with me on the black nights I would have died . |
| 9 | You 've been with me for a whole week now and you might just as well have been a girl , or a boy without balls . |
| 10 | The interviewer , who should have kept her mouth shut , interrupted to ask whether or not Hyacinth had been with him at the Young Conservatives ' Ball . |
| 11 | They had climbed all over him in Tatton Park , looked at Granada TV studio sets with him , been with him to the Industrial and Air Museums . |
| 12 | Whitaker had been with him from the very start , a solid , dependable man who knew his own limitations . |
| 13 | In a postscript Dr. Yeats reported that he had subsequently seen both Dr. Thackeray and Mr. Leech who had been together since he had been with them on the previous day . |
| 14 | I intended to sub-contract it to one of my former students , a very , very skilful young man who had been with us on a fee-paying course for one year and then gone off and worked in a local workshop for another 18 months . |
| 15 | And I remember to this day , though I was so small , that mother was very angry with me , for unclothing myself before the servant , who was a very nice girl who had been with us for a long time . |
| 16 | Leslie had a very good lot of men in his section , some of them had been with us for a long time . |
| 17 | Of course the phenomenological approach has been with us for a long time , and has been the primary source of evidence in the psychoanalytic tradition . |
| 18 | Well we all know from our own history books that fire has been with us for a long long time has n't it ? |
| 19 | It has been with us for the past 10 years . |
| 20 | Never get bored with the fact that you 've been with someone for a long time , it 's a good thing , not a bad thing . |
| 21 | He has n't been in it for a long time . |
| 22 | It is considered more conventional for girls to take arts subjects than sciences ; as convergers tend to be more conventional in outlook , girls are in something of a double bind — they have to decide whether to follow their inclinations or to make a ‘ conventional ’ choice . |
| 23 | The risk would certainly not be worth it to the little ex-scribe . |
| 24 | ( What kind of a rest is it meant to be for me with a querulous adolescent ? |
| 25 | She wanted , as the strands of trees drew out , to be beneath him in the bare and leafless brown of a wood . |
| 26 | It dawned on him that he had not had a date for weeks , and his first one would be with her at the Edwardian Ball . |
| 27 | She will be with her on every life-saving mission , she will see the final fulfilment of hundreds of people 's work each time a life is saved at sea . |
| 28 | You may also need to help her to transfer to the list of your own general practitioner , if she and he are both agreeable to this ; and of course she must be assured that you , or some other member of the family will be with her on the actual day of the move or , if she wishes , take the responsibility of it off her shoulders completely . |
| 29 | It was about time she stopped feeling sorry for herself , the hurt and pain of losing mam would be with her for a long time , but Hari knew she could not let her grief incapacitate her , if she did not mend and make shoes she did not eat . |
| 30 | While his parents could only be with him during the occasional break in a hectic schedule , at least Diana knew that he was under the same skies . |