Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [prep] i [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also , as the first signatory of the motion , may I say that since it was tabled statements have been made to me about the involvement of Stella Rimington and Mr. Roger Windsor of the National Union of Mineworkers . |
| 2 | I think that a good job has been done by the ITC , but I am prepared to consider any representations that are made to me about the future determination of licences . |
| 3 | His next sentence unobtrusively removed an argument that might have been used against me in the leadership contest . |
| 4 | My letters to Herta are brought to me by the valet . |
| 5 | I therefore contacted a literary agent , Al Zuckerman , who had been introduced to me as the brother-in-law of a colleague . |
| 6 | I was looking forward to the chance to meet ‘ our ’ health visitor and find out what would be expected of me in the months leading up to the birth . |
| 7 | ‘ I expected something to be said to me by the directors after recent results . |
| 8 | Andy has got a job to do and so have I. But if I lose he will be gutted for me at the end and if I lose I will be gutted for him . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Even if the Mad Killer epithet will be attributed to me by the media , I consider myself a rational erudite that only the arrival of the Grim Reaper has forced to take extreme acts . |
| 10 | The new book was to be handed to me by the minister , the Revd Dr Adam Burnet , only after we had signed the register — no self-respecting hotel would have accepted us with different names . |
| 11 | He will be settling his own sundry bills but I would like the invoice for the room to be directed to me at the above address . |
| 12 | Further information about the centre and its work can be obtained from me at the centre . |
| 13 | Any representations which you may have on the proposal should be sent to me within the next 10 days . |
| 14 | Evidence has been put before me of the most unusual arrangement come to , in relation to a possible ability of the parents to buy the property at half the sitting tenant valuation . |
| 15 | Erm , so on that , on major services , it is incumbent upon you to consult , erm , and detailed advice is given by me to the Director in relation to each of the , of the er , proposals as to when and how consultation should take place . |
| 16 | He said : ’ there is no statistical evidence that is known to me at the present time of people who are actually being discharged from the private sector We do not have evidence to bring to you of a substantial number of people who have been discharged against their will from the private sector . ’ |
| 17 | I have a strictly limited choice of action , and the extent of the choice is determined for me by the constraints of my physical environment . |
| 18 | ‘ It has been suggested to me by the parents of Tomkiss and Wattling that their sons are skilled in … metalwork , and that the school should have an … option that would enable them to pursue their interest in this … field . |
| 19 | Meanwhile , Denis and I provided the background music for this particular ‘ pack in the box ’ and much hissing was heard from me in the interval into the ear of our Company Manager Jeremy Adams . |
| 20 | I 'm glad you mentioned that cos it was given to me by the wife of the steeplechase handicap a very important man today cos for more than |
| 21 | I refer to a parliamentary answer that was given to me by the Under-Secretary of State for Employment , the hon. Member for Mid-Worcestershire ( Mr. Forth ) . |
| 22 | But , we know that April was a low figure , we also know that July and August are low a figure which comes out from this graph and was given to me by the director yesterday , is a genuine average which is turning out to be between a hundred and a hundred and ten placements per month twelve hundred to fourteen hundred placements per year a thr over a three year average residency period three thousand six hundred to four thousand two hundred placements in residential care , where then is the real problem . |
| 23 | ‘ It was assigned to me by the press , a breed which in my experience cares little for such irrelevancies as accuracy . ’ |
| 24 | Er it was explained to me on the phone . |
| 25 | " Well , mother explained to me what was expected of me in the marriage bed and it sounded so terrifying . |
| 26 | I could do what was expected of me by the crowd , or I could do what he trusted me to do . |
| 27 | Little did I imagine that such a move was destined for me within the next two years . |
| 28 | What occurred after I left was related to me by the men of the village , when I paid the district a second visit some months later . |
| 29 | MUCH OF THE INTERIOR OF MY FATE AND THAT OF JEAN-Claude 's was revealed to me in the opaque , vaporous interior of la Sologne . |
| 30 | At the time tomato purée for the restaurant was preserved in champagne bottles which were then sterilised — a method which was demonstrated to me by the cook at a pensione in Anacapri where I stayed during the summer of 1952 , and which I described in Italian Food . |