Example sentences of "and [pers pn] be [verb] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dolores O'Riordan and three other blokes and me are sitting in a van that 's parked in a yard behind Charlie 's Bar where later on The Cranberries will bring tears to the eyes of grown men and ensure that all present can say ‘ yes ’ when asked if their weekend was happy and filled with nice things . |
| 2 | It is 1972 and I am travelling in a minibus through the Bekaa Valley , The Times correspondent in Ireland on holiday in Lebanon , unwittingly choosing to spend my vacation in the country in which I shall much later spend more than 13 years of my life . |
| 3 | Here you are , about to be launched in your own right as a successful couturière and I 'm living in a country thousands of miles away , helping to manage a thoroughbred farm . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ It 's not that early — I 've been up for ages , and I 'm leaving in a few minutes . |
| 5 | I need to earn X amount , and I 'm working in a town where I do n't know anybody . |
| 6 | Meanwhile , on the other side of the door he was impatiently eyeing , Karen and I were locked in a windowless room about five feet by three , with no possibility of escape short of flushing ourselves down the lavatory . |
| 7 | ‘ Because we were having work done on our house , Sophie and I were staying in a rented place and it did n't have a phone . |
| 8 | ‘ Katy and I were living in a small flat and we were so low that we did n't even bother with a Christmas tree . |
| 9 | He said : ‘ I was intrigued to read in the Observer newspaper that the Chancellor and I were engaged in a furious row on this subject . |
| 10 | It had not been my direct responsibility to purchase it and I was operating in a field where everyone else — the companies from which I might buy , those from which we now bought , and the management of the division — was an expert . |
| 11 | Dad , Jack and Charlie just wore a black armband each with their Sunday suits , and I was dressed in a white lace dress with a wide black sash of silk ribbon . |
| 12 | It was an AIDS benefit and I was caught in a private moment . |
| 13 | And I was working in a large warehouse , a three floor warehouse , a grocers , grocers . |
| 14 | I was amazed at the size of it , it felt vast , and I was put in a two-bedded room which I had to myself as the house was n't full . |
| 15 | And you are kneeling in a field |
| 16 | For example , if there are difficult occasions when everyone seems to be chatting happily and you are left in a limbo of social redundancy . |
| 17 | I do n't want to trivialise the programme by saying you 're wearing the most extraordinary outfit today , but Joanna Innes is a senior proctor , and you 're dressed in a particularly strange way . |
| 18 | So unless you 're very elderly , and you 're living in a very er splendid dwelling it 's probably not worth it . |
| 19 | In other words if you , you 've been a teacher and you 're working in a school , you tend to talk about the things about your school that different from other schools , not about the things about your school that are the same , and that go on in all the other schools as well . |
| 20 | And she 's sitting in a peculiar way , staring at herself in the mirror . ’ |
| 21 | Above her , an eagle soared , its gliding majesty holding her spellbound , and she was lost in a world of her own , a world she had never stepped into before as the beauty , the staggering grandeur and the warmth of Spain gripped her imagination . |
| 22 | Ferdinando came to his wife in such an open way that she was reminded of the first advances he had ever made and she was stirred in a way she believed no longer possible . |
| 23 | We were then taken by boat about ten miles to Bone where an armed Army escort awaited us for interrogation and we were kept in a locked room in the barracks . |
| 24 | : My husband was in the Royal Air Force and we were living in a flat in Singapore . |
| 25 | We finished the album and we were going in a new direction , one which we were all very pleased with . |
| 26 | And they are taught in a caring way , about people and the environment . |
| 27 | Whilst these notes repeat much of the material covered in the " Statements and Functions " section , additional information has been added and they are presented in a more readable order . |
| 28 | They are given a copy of their own group 's timetable , whether or not they can read , and they are timetabled in a variety of rooms , with different tutors on two different sites . |
| 29 | It was another hot windless day , and they were living in a bowl of milky haze and smog , so that the blue only began perhaps twenty degrees above the horizon . |
| 30 | and they were mirrored in a dirty little ditch — very dirty — but in which some blades of spring grass were already sparkling . ’ |