Example sentences of "to be [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | By this time he 'd let Josie 's body down and was checking through her pockets , which was a no-hope situation if ever there was one — women almost always carried their stuff around in handbags , and hers had to be back inside the building somewhere . |
| 32 | Darling , I am sorry , I really expect to be back inside the week , and I would n't go if anyone else could . |
| 33 | I let myself unwind at last — how good it feels to be back in the field , especially in this cinnamon-scented corner of the mortal sphere . |
| 34 | No talk of going out for meals then , everyone rushed off to their respective homes , grateful for the knowledge that they would not have to be back in the Variety Theatre until the ‘ half ’ on the Monday evening . |
| 35 | It was good to be back in the peace of the Outer Isles , to swim and laze in the still of a summer evening . |
| 36 | You almost end up yearning with the RAF trainees to be back in the cockpit getting on with the business : flying . |
| 37 | She did n't know where she was and she longed to be back in the cottage where it was safe . |
| 38 | It was a slow-going mile , but towards the end one could hear occasional cars along the road ahead and Gareth and Coconut with whoops crashed through the last few yards , again , as the week before , relieved to be back in the space age . |
| 39 | If we do not make the U-turn , that treaty requires us to be back in the ERM , or the son of ERM , before the next election . ’ |
| 40 | ’ It 's great to be back in the lap of luxury , so it is . |
| 41 | And Iain Munro , lately of Dundee , who hopes to be back in the game soon , left with his wife and family for Florida and an early annual holiday . |
| 42 | George was in no mood to hang around : he wanted to be back in the safety — illusory though it might be — of the big city with a drink in his hand . |
| 43 | The US duo arrived in Spain on a private jet from North Carolina , where they played in the US Tour Championship on Sunday , and both have to be back in the States next Monday . |
| 44 | I was happy to see him and happy to be back in the Star Zoo again . |
| 45 | Popes might be — and often were — driven from Rome , but they aspired to be back in the city to which they belonged . |
| 46 | That is until we stopped for a toilet break in a lay-by , when the howling gale and torrential rain lashed our naked bottoms like a Cabinet minister in a Soho sauna , and made me glad to be back in the car beside the sleeping-bags . |
| 47 | Only poor Webb , still in plaster but determined to be back in the side in time for Italy , can feel discouraged by the way he brought it off . |
| 48 | Shortwood attracts thousands of visitors and the idea behind the revival of the horse powered cider mill , is to demonstrate how life used to be down on the farm . |
| 49 | His inclination was to be down at the yard . |
| 50 | ‘ I shall want to be down at the track early tomorrow morning . |
| 51 | A little while ago children were expected to be down in the mines and underneath textile machinery , so they were n't actually treated as children , they were erm wager earners at a very low age , as soon as they could be walking they were doing a job , so I feel that we 're all children in fact , there is no great division between being a child and being an adult , and we in fact ca n't always cope with what 's happening and the shocks infect . |
| 52 | He seemed more likely to blow a kiss than to throw a punch ; to be at a dinner-table than to be down in the dives ; to be rubbing shoulders than to be shoving or sticking it to the comfortable ( I almost said to the bourgeoisie . ) |
| 53 | Blur , the Valentines and Dinosaur Jr on in the wrong order , at the wrong time , in the wrong place , before the wrong crowd , using inappropriate equipment , and putting you in the worst mood you could hope to be in for the Mary Chain ? |
| 54 | On one of our south coast patrols I managed to be in at the kill on what turned out to be one of our more amusing combined operations . |
| 55 | It expects to be in at the finish . |
| 56 | There was some confusion as to who was to be left behind , as ever all wanting to be in at the action , the Steward and Moray flatly refusing to stay . |
| 57 | They had an interest in playing golf together so specifically formed a society giving it the name of the road they happened to be in at the time — Worple Way , Harrow . |
| 58 | That is neither right or wrong ; we both have an interest and both want to be in on the decision . |
| 59 | You had to be in on the script meetings and the rehearsals to realize that underneath that company executive exterior lurked a funny man who took it all very seriously indeed . |
| 60 | If you want to be in on the action then Club Benitses is the place to be . |