Example sentences of "be [prep] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you have any doubts about your ability to fix a burst pipe , a storm-damaged roof , or a boiler that does on the blink , it may be worth signing up for Homercare , the new 24-hour emergency repair and assistance service from Europ Assistance . |
| 2 | Those next four weeks were like lying out in no-man's-land . |
| 3 | Half the stuff on the album is about growing up in Birmingham in the '70s but half of it is about '90s subjects like ‘ Livin' On The Streets ’ and ‘ Fish And Chips ’ , which is about going to clubs . |
| 4 | This piece is about coming out in Dublin in the early seventies . |
| 5 | This is why it is worth finding out in advance what type of herb it is . |
| 6 | It requires a lot of hard talking to go abroad to film these days : the main justification is for filming out of season — this is sometimes essential , but can often be avoided by good planning . |
| 7 | Silicon Graphics Inc , Mountain View , is not commenting on a report in the New York Times that it is considering teaming up with Time Warner Inc to develop hardware for interactive television . |
| 8 | A FREIGHT firm is considering pulling out of Stansted Airport and using East Midlands Airport , at Castle Donington , instead . |
| 9 | The old certainties that ruled computer industry analysis over the past 30 years are tumbling like autumn leaves , and commercial realities are now eating away at the traditional determination of Japanese companies to forget the bottom line and stick with major product sectors for the long term : Sony Corp says it is considering pulling out of Japan 's competitive word processor market to save the cost of developing and manufacturing new models , Reuter reports from Tokyo ; Sony began making word processors in 1985 and production reached a peak of 10,000 a month ; NEC Corp , Toshiba Corp , Fujitsu Ltd and Sharp Corp now dominate the market and Sony currently makes just 500 of the things a month , a drop in the 1992 market ocean of 2.6m machines . |
| 10 | Going into North Road station is like stepping back in time . |
| 11 | Later , he would complain irritably about his silver-spooned Tory colleagues : ‘ These people have no idea what is like to run out of money at the end of the week . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ In a way it 's like going back to square one , and starting from scratch again , but it 's what we have to do . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Blackburn 's like going back in time , ’ he says . |
| 14 | Deputy chief executive of the FHSA , Martin Lawn , said the real drain on resources is in providing up to £300,000 each year to help fundholders computerise their records — money which is presently not refunded by the regional health authority . |
| 15 | The BRC squad includes Rodney Wilson and David Webb who both learnt their rowing at Methodist College and continued at Queen 's before moving up to BRC . |
| 16 | ‘ While our competitors play only ten records an hour we can play at least 14 , and that 's without losing out on speech areas like news , interviews and DJ input . ’ |
| 17 | It was worth getting back to Paul 's route for it soon brought us to Hardy 's birthplace , a small thatched cottage just outside Higher Bockhampton . |
| 18 | She said : ‘ It was like stepping back in time . |
| 19 | As one Shell executive remembers of his visits : ‘ It was like stepping back in time . |
| 20 | For Simon , it was like stepping back in time to the turn of the century . |
| 21 | For Simon , it was like stepping back in time to the turn of the century . |
| 22 | They drove through the brightly lit city streets of Tsimshatsui , and it was like hurtling back to earth through the atmosphere ; Rachel felt she was being shaken till her teeth rattled as the car sped up through the cross-harbour tunnel into Causeway Bay , past the bobbing sampans and the escort clubs , speeding towards Central District along the harbour road , traffic everywhere , horns blasting in her ears … |
| 23 | For Rob it was like going back to Piccadilly Circus after five years and finding all the buildings have been moved . |
| 24 | It was like going back in time . |
| 25 | ‘ In some ways it was like going back in time , living in the mountains where there was no electricity or running water . |
| 26 | But he blew his chances when he said that giving up sovereignty to the European Commission was like giving in to Hitler . |
| 27 | He claimed he had acted to protect US lives ; to defend the Panama Canal ( control of which was to passed over to Panama on January 1 , 1990 — eleven days before the invasion ) ; to ‘ restore democracy ’ to Panama ; and to stop drug trafficking and bring Noriega to justice . |
| 28 | This tip apparently came in pretty handy when a bus she was on coming out of Dar es Salaam was robbed . |