Example sentences of "[prep] be [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aggers ' biggest worry was that he might make a fool of himself bowling at Gooch after being out of the game for two years . |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't expect miracles from him after being out of the first team for seven weeks . |
| 3 | And , after being out in the sunshine with the children most of the day , she 'd lost her pale , city complexion , becoming as brown as a berry and looking much younger . |
| 4 | Seemed a bit daft to me though you 'd think they , mind you they 'd , they 'd supposed to of had erm er sub contractors down there , in that , that is disgusting , some of these should of been out of the door the . |
| 5 | he said in all that , we got two he said the other one cut itself badly this morning on er a piece of glass obvious he said managed to come back to me you know being on a lead all his leg was cut so he sort of been down to the vet and had two stitches |
| 6 | If you knew him to be a criminal , you suspected him of being up to no good . |
| 7 | That he did not depart of his own free will is abundantly evidenced by the fact that he left behind all his belongings and expressed the intention of being back within the period of four hours . |
| 8 | It is bad to lapse into the jargon without conveying its meaning and its connotations , because that is lazy ; and unforgivable to use it just to give the impression of being in with the chaps . |
| 9 | There was nearly a chance when he got locked in a lift at the Horseguards Hotel the other day , but the prospect of being out of the front line for a few hours was more than he could bear . |
| 10 | Its main problem is that it can cause psychological dissociation , resulting in hallucinations and phenomena which may include subjective experiences of being out of the body or states similar to the near death experience . |
| 11 | Back in the warm , silken night air , beneath the massive arc of bright stars , she breathed in greedily , revelling in the blessed contrast , the giddy relief of being out of the cave . |
| 12 | It was all question of being out on the track at the right moment close to the end of the session when it was drying . |
| 13 | He had virtually lived his entire life in a stable as he was ‘ far too valuable to run the risk of being out in a yard ! ’ |
| 14 | The nip of alcohol causes the blood vessels to dilate and so warm the skin and make us comfortable in spite of being out in the cold . |
| 15 | I mean even I understand you were talking about the children sort of being out in the dark on their own erm even just something as simple as that . |
| 16 | She had had enough of being out among the crowd , enough excitement . |
| 17 | It 's just like being back in the dorm . ) |
| 18 | The second sense emerges as we follow his explanation of how the civil state would come into being out of a state of nature , by the making of contracts . |
| 19 | A more important point is that passages of this sort , spliced as they are with images like the lizard from the immediate foreground of Pound 's tent inside the wire-mesh cage of the prison camp , do not come into being out of the free associations of idle reverie , though in these Pisan cantos Pound exploits the illusion of that , as Joyce did in Ulysses when he pretended to transport himself and us into the mind of Leopold Bloom . |
| 20 | I bet that has n't got ta be in for a week ! |
| 21 | you see , if you put a line it costs you about a hundred a thirty quid now I think , but according to what they tell me , once a line has been in for a year if you put a line in , you 've got to pay the first year , its got ta be in for a year , if you have it taken out before the year , you 'll still be due for the rental on it |
| 22 | Byas hit 80 before being out in the final over and White was left unbeaten on 52 , the fifth-wicket pair smashing their way to 119 in 15 overs . |
| 23 | But once the kids arrive , then everything changes — now I know I want to be around for a very long time . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ You may as well accept that he 's going to be around for a while — until he finally accepts that the club 's not for sale . |
| 25 | In that case , we want to be around for the big money in the fourth , fifth and sixth records . |
| 26 | But if you were old enough to be around at the time , reactions like ‘ Well , of course , the political circumstances were such that … ’ , and ‘ Yes , I have to admit I took offence to that ’ are more likely , and cause one to take a more considered and less dogmatic view . |
| 27 | In all three areas the mammals that happened to be around at the start fanned out in evolution , and produced a specialist for each trade which , in many cases , came to bear a remarkable resemblance to the corresponding specialist in the other two areas . |
| 28 | MVS is still supreme in IBM 's view and expected to be around through the decade as a leader . |
| 29 | ‘ I plan to be around over the next few weeks while we get this new image launched , and we expect you to be very visible . |
| 30 | That has begun shipping to members , and SAG optimistically expects products complying to the specification to be around by the end of year . |