Example sentences of "[prep] be [adv prt] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both Thins and Bargain Bookshops expected to be up a bit ahead of inflation , which was not good enough for David Flatman but ‘ a near miss ’ for Ainslie Thin . |
| 2 | Unfortunately the powerful television lights kept melting the glue , and in spite of extra large dollops of the stuff , the G from ‘ Winning ’ fell off every night and I had to be up a ladder fixing it back again at six the next morning . |
| 3 | For a while there I thought we were going to be up the creek without a paddle . ’ |
| 4 | Because of the political situation , the ferry route had to be up the west coast of Africa . |
| 5 | Normally playing seated amphitheaters , our audience and the Mary Chain 's tend to be up the back on the lawns . |
| 6 | Our last patrol before Christmas was to be up the East coast to Buckie where we would leave the ship and travel home by train . |
| 7 | The English will have to be back a week I think . |
| 8 | The air was cold on stage , the little orchestra seemed to be down a mine and all she could see was a very small bald head and a very long baton . |
| 9 | Used to go down , well I used to be down every night , rubbing the salt in this , to make the bacon and I had a smokehouse down the yard where I used to smoke the bacon . |
| 10 | It was his father , Colin Cauldhame , who got the cordite from the ship-breaking yard there used to be down the coast . |
| 11 | I remember asking on the shop floor of a division , the board of which had been reduced from fifteen to four , what the major difference was This was not because the fifteen previous board members had felt to be down the line , and was told , to my surprise , that the biggest difference was that they now knew what was going on . |
| 12 | Is it th , everybody 's gon na be down the park , yeah ? |
| 13 | Yeah cos then , th they 're not gon na be down the park are they ? |