Example sentences of "[be] [adv prt] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The fuzz would have been on to that straight away . |
| 2 | I 've been on to this morning , asked me to and they have got thirty palettes there at the moment . |
| 3 | They have fairly regularly staged , what you might call bigger bands who play the university circuit as such and they 're always , you know , dying for people to come along so there 'll , th there 'll be lists published at what time , what events are on at these places if you wan na go and do that and if you wan na go to the top notch bands , Birmingham 's a good venue for that with the Leisure Centre , the M I A the N E C , the K G B etcetera etcetera all that stuff there so there 's always plenty to do , do n't , do n't feel restricted just cos we 're in er the middle of the city centre in this college and there does n't seem a lot to do , there 's a lot going on . |
| 4 | Lights are on in some of the windows as milkmen and postmen swallow mugs of hot tea . |
| 5 | If it had been down to that one offence , Daine would be in court for ever , kept on life support until the end of the trial , or until the judge ruled that enough medical alterations had been made to render the accused legally another entity entirely . |
| 6 | On these traffic lights been down to that football match actually cos it 's absolutely nose to tail right the way there right the way down here |
| 7 | looks nice , no burnt or anything , and I says ee it 's lovely is it , I said alright , would been down for this morning like and I says ooh come on then do n't bother when you get home starting making anything I says just say , let's ask for steak pies , so I says er can we have er two steak and kidney pies please ? , she said I 'm sorry we do n't , there is n't any kidney an all , I 'm glad there is n't I did n't want , well I 'd of eaten 'em like but I 'd rather have them without |
| 8 | What about livestock would they have been in at that time of year ? |
| 9 | All she could think of was that they 'd all been in on this — a kind of family Mafia , working behind the scenes to make sure that Lucenzo ended up with everything , his empire untouched . |
| 10 | ‘ After all , he is the champion and he has been in with some of the best fighters of the day . |
| 11 | He will fight Jose Ribalta , a 28-year-old Cuban American , who has been in with some of the best heavyweights . |
| 12 | Hongkong Bank is inheriting a bank in better shape than it has been in for more than a decade . |
| 13 | In spite of her unwillingness to join the outing , and the remote mood she had been in for most of the day , in the last few minutes she had begun to feel herself a real person . |
| 14 | Have you been in for this Guess the Scores , have you won anything before ? |
| 15 | By now they were in Piccadilly Circus , anonymous among the largest crowd Sally-Anne had ever been in without some sort of companion to protect her , or to look out for her . |
| 16 | Already doorstep sales are down to half of total milk sales . |
| 17 | The first seven days of heavy fighting and shelling have caused a large number of casualties ; the Commando units in some instances are down to less than half strength . |
| 18 | Average hourly earnings in agriculture were nearly three-quarters of those in industry in the late 1940s ; today they are down to less than two-thirds . |
| 19 | This shop 's takings are down by half , compared to this time last year . |
| 20 | A quarter of all Japanese bank lending is secured on property , and values are down by some 30 p.c. from their peak . |
| 21 | Japanese share prices are down by more than half , and share values form part of the bank 's capital base . |
| 22 | In some areas public order and drunkenness offences are down by more than a third . |
| 23 | But since nineteen eighty seven , daily paper sales are down by more than a tenth . |
| 24 | You are in for some surprises . |
| 25 | If he succeeds in stirring up tabloid backing again with ‘ the people 's champion against the gin-and-tonic brigade ’ , the theme of 1984 , then Yorkshire are in for another incendiary winter . |
| 26 | Understandable had I been writing this in August , but as it is still March it looks as if we are in for another drought this summer . |
| 27 | Verbs and adjectives are in between these two extremes ( 13% and 10% respectively ) . |
| 28 | The original author of this book commented in the House of Commons , ‘ Seldom have I seen the House or the Government in quite such a mess … as we are in over this Bill … this House does not contain a majority for this Bill . |
| 29 | Ruth stared down at it and wondered why she had bought it and thought it was probably because it contrasted so sharply with what she had been through on this trip . |
| 30 | Something to do with what he 'd been through in some war . |