Example sentences of "be [verb] [pron] [adv prt] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | While you 've been living it up in the lap of luxury — ’ |
| 2 | they 're putting it down in the paper that |
| 3 | The Gloster meteors will be slogging it out in the first round of the British baseball knockout cup on Sunday . |
| 4 | I usually work him in for an hour , but when I 'm riding him around in the arena before the bell goes , I 'm still thinking , ‘ How on earth am I going to get this thing up the centre line ? ’ because he 's gawping at everything , but then I give him a jolly good boot and we get on with it … ’ |
| 5 | Fans of volleyball reckon its the fastest … hardest court game of all … this week two of the world 's top teams Latvia and Lithuania have come to town to take on the might of England and the pick of the nation 's universities … on tuesday … wednesday … and thursday they 'll be battling it out in the gym at Iffley Road in Oxford and then on Friday they they head for the finals at the american airbase at Upper Heyford |
| 6 | OVER 200 of the North-East 's best young athletes will be battling it out in the Durham Association of Boys ' Clubs cross country championships at Aykley Heads , Durham , tomorrow writes FRANK JOHNSON . |
| 7 | ‘ And tomorrow they wo n't be attacking strong positions , they 'll be hitting us out in the open . |
| 8 | ‘ If I were coining it down in the bull market , ’ I reminded him , ‘ and you were my oldest friend and out of work and you came up with two corking girls like that , I 'd be honoured to pay the bill . ’ |
| 9 | Well , Marcus said he 'd come and see Pat , and Ludens is driving him down in the Bentley ! |
| 10 | Its only idea for schools is to put them back in the power of local authorities . |
| 11 | What I 'm planning to do is to put them back in the order , colleagues could you settle down please , I 'm planning to put them back on the agenda in the order that they fell off , and er , hopefully , the first opportunity in that connection may be Wednesday afternoon , but I need to have a discussion with colleagues about that , but I 'll certainly let you know at the first available opportunity . |
| 12 | Amdahl Corp believes that its Huron applications development and production system is a winner , and rather than leave it stranded on the mainframe under MVS , it is taking it along in the direction the market is moving with two new versions , one that runs under its UTS implementation of Unix System V on its mainframes , the other for Unix workstations , the first version of the latter being for 80486-based machines under Unix . |
| 13 | ‘ He 's taking her out in the boat , ’ I thought . |
| 14 | Rain knew Oliver was picturing himself back in the wine bar in Chelsea telling everyone how he 'd been mistaken for a drug dealer and nearly done to death in a Mediterranean backstreet by an underworld rival . |
| 15 | Erm the erm the erm periodical men who used to come over harvest their job was to pitch it up in the field . |
| 16 | Bream are not great fighters and if you got one on then you knew it would stay on ; the trouble was getting one on in the first place ! |
| 17 | So this morning the fat little chap in the long white coat who was sorting us out in the Dean 's Office said I 'd better come along here for a few days until they got me organized with another partner . |
| 18 | Now if you 'd got grudge against the bloke who was taking it off in the shop , in the farmyard , after when you got back home , of course you had to come I mean they did n't stick it in the field , like they do now . |
| 19 | Dad paid over the four shillings and while he was entering it up in the book said , ‘ Mr Priest , I was wondering if yer could give me permission to build a small wooden shed facing the house ? ’ |
| 20 | I did n't want to wear glasses , and I was thinking how I could get out of it but finally they brought in a bunch of pairs of glasses and I was trying them on in the mirror , and I tried on a pair and I thought , ‘ Gee , these do n't look too bad ’ . |