Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [vb pp] [adv prt] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time I am curled up in my bag I am totally content , warm and well fed , exhausted but not wanting to sleep for fear of missing these moments of happiness . |
| 2 | However , my corresponding Ego fantasy is of losing my wits to such an extent that I am unable to work ; I am living in a filthy bedsit and the floor is strewn with pieces of paper that I am unable to make sense of , final demands which have not been paid , dirty clothes , plants which have fallen over , unwashed plates and mugs — and I am curled up in a foetal ball , wishing the world would go away ! |
| 3 | I am curled up in the armchair , flicking through a book . |
| 4 | ‘ The plain fact is , ’ Niki noted , ‘ that I am caught up in an insane series of setbacks which are oppressive in their consistency and which seem to … prey on my mind . |
| 5 | No matter that I 'm dressed up in my Sunday clothes . |
| 6 | My parents will go crazy if they find I 'm tied up in yet another messy murder . |
| 7 | My brother and I were brought up in the Catholic faith . |
| 8 | What , and I were brought up in church ? |
| 9 | Why am I being paid back in this way ? ’ |
| 10 | He would dream up all kinds of possibilities — like beetles crawling over different shaped surfaces , and someone being shut up in a box in outer space trying to find out whether he was accelerating or being acted upon by gravity — and would then test out these ideas to see if they had anything to say about the real world . |
| 11 | One morning I was called up in front of the 2ème Bureau and walked into an office to be interviewed by three Sergeants who spoke perfect English . |
| 12 | I was called back in . |
| 13 | So I was turned down in my own county town in favour of a stranger … |
| 14 | Eddie Gilfoyle replied : ‘ I was fed up in work . ’ |
| 15 | Eddie Gilfoyle replied : ‘ I was fed up in work . ’ |
| 16 | In 1672 , for example , the Dutch Cromwell , de Witt , was torn limb from limb in the street by a frenzied mob , and in 1986 I was beaten up in a bar . |
| 17 | ‘ I was locked up in a room with a ghost , in the dark . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ But I was tucked up in bed early — not difficult in Dresden you know , they do n't have West German television down there — oh ! |
| 19 | I was wrapped up in an officer 's uniform ; you could n't see me for fur and leather . |
| 20 | I was driven around in limos and everything was great — but these things are as good as they last . |
| 21 | ‘ No , I was brought up in Berkhamsted and I spent a couple of years living in Oxfordshire not so long ago , so I 'm not completely inflexible about this . |
| 22 | The next generation which is taking over the reins of industry is a generation who were not brought up in the same milieu that I was brought up in . |
| 23 | I was brought up in Gilmer , Texas , as a fundamentalist Mormon . |
| 24 | It is simply that I was brought up in the East of Scotland and have lived in places whither the Orangemen walketh not , neither in triumph nor provocation . |
| 25 | I was brought up in Albert Street near the Hibs ground , my whole family came from that area , my dad used to sneak into the ground at night to play football on the grass at Easter Road , and I got sent off in my own backyard . |
| 26 | ‘ I was brought up in Nigeria , ’ he explained to the court , ‘ and when the consequences of the drought became obvious I decided to put the national interest first and perform the n'dula , a naked rain dance , on the village green . |
| 27 | I was brought up in liberal Anglicanism and lapsed into unbelief and active opposition before being converted in an evangelical Anglican church at the age of twenty-four . |
| 28 | I was aware that I was attracted to boys and men from about the age of twelve or fourteen , but although I was brought up in London I still did n't find it very easy to have any sort of contact with other gay men . |
| 29 | I was brought up in a generation where there were only two kinds of girls — girls who did and girls who did n't . |
| 30 | ‘ Well , I was brought up in that orphanage in Dalston , and that 's what they called me there . |