Example sentences of "[be] in [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No Chris should have been in at six , that 's when the first team started counting . |
| 2 | We 've been in at five past eight , we 've been in past eight . |
| 3 | What about livestock would they have been in at that time of year ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But this is not a fight Mason imagines he can lose and much of the interest tonight will focus on his ability to handle a taller opponent who has been in with better men . |
| 6 | ‘ After all , he is the champion and he has been in with some of the best fighters of the day . |
| 7 | He will fight Jose Ribalta , a 28-year-old Cuban American , who has been in with some of the best heavyweights . |
| 8 | I was n't afraid of losing my boyfriend while I was in prison , because I 've seen people who 've been in for two years and their boyfriends still come and see them . |
| 9 | Myra Hindley has been in prison for my whole life : I 'm twenty-two now and she 's been in for twenty-two years . |
| 10 | you know , it is just so frustrating , you know and er some of these kids he said and the language they use , one girl came in , she had n't been in for three or four days , he had n't met her and he said hello you must be such and such er |
| 11 | Hongkong Bank is inheriting a bank in better shape than it has been in for more than a decade . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Have you been in for this Guess the Scores , have you won anything before ? |
| 14 | We 've been in at five past eight , we 've been in past eight . |
| 15 | But they not see Darius because he not been in since five o'clock . |
| 16 | Because of my knee cartilage operation , I started the 1990–91 season having done no downhill training at all during the autumn , a situation which I had not been in since 1980 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | After a 1992 high of 181p the shares have been in near constant retreat , hitting a low of 83.5p before recovering to yesterday 's suspension price of 129p . |
| 19 | You are in for some surprises . |
| 20 | He suggested that in the days before his election Yeltsin had had to clarify and adjust his policy on a number of key issues , but commented : " If he is playing political games , then perhaps we are in for difficult times . " |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Erm the speakers on the samples are either bilingual or bi-dialectal and erm the dialects listed are in between standard American English and the eastern Kentucky sub-dialect of Appalachian English . |
| 24 | Verbs and adjectives are in between these two extremes ( 13% and 10% respectively ) . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Things like , it was us who set up the Benefits Unit in the Town Centre , you know , we , it was considered that you know we as a neutral policy team are in without departmental buyers rather than political buyers , that 's a joke , erm , would be the best people to erm , er set up this unit , we do n't have any less interest , the benefit 's , the benefit 's felt within the housing department with with the introduction of Poll Tax and the Poll Tax benefit , it was n't clear where that could go , so we were the people who had to sort that out . |
| 27 | However , this approach was not as successful as that implemented in probeorder , in that where the map and hybridisation data are in in serious conflict the contigs generated will be a poor compromise between the two . |
| 28 | But the budget will be continually scrutinized er and adjusted to er suit the situation that we 're in at that stage . |
| 29 | People living next to the site of a New Age festival planned for the weekend say they 're in for two days of misery . |
| 30 | You 're in for four lectures are n't you ? |