Example sentences of "be [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Crime Squad officers had quickly been on to the address in Wiltshire Lane . |
| 2 | The search for a proper definition has certainly been on in the House of Commons for several years . |
| 3 | I think it 's fair to say that with this new computer erm the box office that we 've got a lot of information can be stored on that and in future we 'll be using a much more erm sophisticated in a scientific way for instance if you came here and book that seat that your sitting in tonight we would know on that computer what type of show that your discouraging coming to erm we can say to you we can send you out a leaflet saying the kind of er things that you 'd like to see are on at the playhouse on such and such a date and we could even say to you would you like the seat that you normally sit in . |
| 4 | I think we are on to a loser with this one , but good luck … |
| 5 | Adam said , ‘ I have n't been down to the cottage in an age . |
| 6 | He 'd been down to the coke-cellar beneath the church , where the stage was stored , and with the assistance of Mr Peniket he 'd tried the curtains for size . |
| 7 | She had been down to the lochside in the early morning with a basket of crusts and potato peelings for the water birds and had left a row of neat black boot prints in the snow . |
| 8 | Melanie had not been down to the work-room since her very first morning ; she tried not to look at the partially assembled puppets , hanged and dismembered , on the walls . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | A legend in the power boat world , Shurdington signwriter , John has been in at the top of his sport for over 30 years . |
| 11 | Madeira can claim to have been in at the birth of modern tourism , along with such famous nineteenth-century resorts as Baden-Baden , the Italian Lakes and the French Riviera . |
| 12 | " We in Christian Aid are proud to have been in at the start of this magazine which campaigns relentlessly for a better , fairer , environmentally purer and politically more aware world . |
| 13 | Wassall must have been in with a chance of winning the £10,000 first prize because he was the fifth fastest qualifier , with a time of 11.92sec for the 100 metres . |
| 14 | My sisters have been along to a couple of events , and Mum and Dad watch my performances on television , as well as videos of my races . |
| 15 | They are down to a pair of Bananaramas after the departure of Jacqui O'Sullivan . |
| 16 | It 's all in , I mean the days are down from the top to the bottom . |
| 17 | The tenant may wish to limit its liability to the state and condition of the premises at the commencement of the term , in which case it would need to include a provision that it will keep the Premises in no worse condition than they are in at the commencement of the Term as evidenced by the Schedule of condition annexed hereto A schedule of condition would then of course have to be settled including , if possible , a portfolio of photographs . |
| 18 | Now Amiga owners are in for a treat with Mindscape 's home computer version of the Nintendo toads . |
| 19 | WHILE SNES players are in for a treat with Super Mario Kart , sadly the same can not be said for NES owners , with their Christmas Mario offering , Mario and Yoshi — a game which takes the form of a puzzle startlingly similar to the classic Tetris . |
| 20 | We plod along for two or three decades with the occasional recording of individual sonatas and then along comes a centenary year and all and sundry are in on the act at the same time . |
| 21 | If we are in with a chance of the Championship going into the New Year , then I am determined we will not be beaten . |
| 22 | Patrick , so he told Franca , had been over to the flat at Victoria and had had a ‘ talk ’ with Marcus . |
| 23 | In rugby , Bicester are through to the semi-finals of the Provincial Insurance Cup . |
| 24 | Cricket — Northamptonshire are through to the final of the Natwest Trophy . |
| 25 | And the ice men from Milton keynes are through to the final of the Autumn trophy they beat Swindon in the semi-final |
| 26 | ‘ And you 're on to a winner with the poll tax , paying the same as us . ’ |
| 27 | Now that you 're down to an average of 68 pages , why not run back up to 84 with the features that made you great . |
| 28 | But now we 're down to the bottom of the barrel . |
| 29 | They 're down along the road by the lake 's edge . |
| 30 | But first you 're in for a couple of months in Florida . |