Example sentences of "be [adv prt] [prep] the [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | My friends who lived nearby were all envious for I was the only one who had ever been down into the depths of the mysterious cellar . |
2 | In rugby , Bicester are through to the semi-finals of the Provincial Insurance Cup . |
3 | Now that she 's gone you wo n't always be saying that you 're off to the pictures with her . |
4 | We 're back in the trenches of World War One , it 's raining and the men are ankle-deep in mud . |
5 | Town are up with the pacemakers for promotion . |
6 | ‘ And if you do n't get out of here I 'll tell him you 've been up in the woods with a dog . |
7 | This has never been up among the recommendations for this work , and even at mid-price it is n't competitive with those versions listed above . |
8 | He had been serving in France when he met her , they had married as soon as the Hun had been finished off , and after the honeymoon it had been back to the colours for him and straight over to Ireland . |
9 | Take it , and in the space of only twenty miles you pass through a rapid summary of all the Pyrenean landscapes : high pasture first of all , nowhere richer than near the Col du Soul or , with a backing of the fearsome granite of the Cirque de Lit or ; then , after the village of Arbéost , dense woodland and the gorge of the river ; then suddenly open , more or less flat country , well cultivated , and you are out of the mountains for good . |
10 | And whereas it might be argued that Granada would have kept a strong news operation in Newcastle , control would have been out of the hands of the region . |
11 | The child who opened the door to him was the one that had been out in the fields with his father . |
12 | Su Ragazzi have lost only once this year — to Jets earlier this month — but showed they are back on the rails on Saturday by defeating Team Fife for the loss of only 13 points , 15-3 , 15-5 , 15-5 . |
13 | With it , we are back with the problems of identity , specifically those of projection , the process by which certain aspects of the self are seen as located in some object external to the self , and of introjection , the process by which certain aspects of external objects are seen as being located within the self ; we are firmly back in the area of object-relations . |
14 | But Exodus 1.8 read , ‘ Now there arose a new king over Egypt , who did not know Joseph , ’ and then began the story of Egyptian brutality and oppression to which we have already referred , and after that we are back with the tales of the Israelites ' stubborn complaining in the wilderness with which we have become so familiar . |
15 | Here we are back to the ideas about roles and spheres which I discussed earlier in this chapter ( the work of Harding , Goodwin and so on ) . |
16 | Woolwich says six-month arrears are back to the levels of February 1988 and the Abbey National says short-term arrears have been declining since the end of last summer and repossessions are stable or falling . |
17 | Both Tesco and NFC are back above the levels at which Questor sold them . |
18 | ‘ Now that I 've left the army , I 'll soon be down in the fields with you again , ’ said Troy lightly . |
19 | The change has been a major exercise , and while the civil war may not be over in the eyes of the excise collectors , the next issue of Guinness Today will carry the story of the people behind the massive change to End Product Duty . |
20 | That way , I think that some land might become available , but it would have to be up to the planners to be more flexible . |
21 | They must n't be out of the perimeters of the pallet . |
22 | The most common offence was to break the curfew , aliens were not supposed to be out on the streets after eleven . |
23 | I ring up and they say ‘ it 'll be three weeks ’ — I could be out on the streets by then . ’ |
24 | Nearly one third of Britain 's 800,000 sows will be out in the fields by the end of next year , reckons marketing director Bernard Hoggarth . |
25 | ‘ Well then , ’ I told her , ‘ you will be back on the boards for autumn , when the season begins . |
26 | They do n't expect the train to be back on the tracks until the turn of the century . |
27 | We will be back to the failings of Management Budgeting . |
28 | And one suspects it might be back in the days of the nineteen fifties , nineteen sixties when the labour party opposed anything at local level , of course , but at local level that might tend towards helping people to be upwardly mobile on the grounds that upwardly mobile people stop voting labour . |
29 | We 've never jumped on the bandwagon 'cos it 's clearly going to end in tears , but there 's definitely been a vibe that has n't been around since the days of the Buzzcocks and The Electric Circus . |
30 | They were on in the funfairs on the prom |