Example sentences of "[pron] be [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 There are plenty of surgical patients walking around with only one lung , and some of them are down to a third of normal lung area .
2 I say I been out for a walk because I ca n't sleep .
3 I am over at the big house within a couple of minutes , kilt on , best sporran and carrying the bagpipes , and prepared for anything .
4 ‘ But I am up on the train tomorrow .
5 Now that I am back on the England scene , my cash flow has picked up again but , at the age of 40 , I know there 's a time limit left on my playing career .
6 Every time I go to Cambridge I come back depressed as hell ; then as soon as I am back to a Norfolk class spirits soar again .
7 ‘ I now feel that I am back to the form I had three years ago , and after my performances in Ireland , I feel I can win the Paris-Tours classic next Saturday , ’ he said .
8 I sometimes think , he wrote , that if in one sense I am back in the nursery trying to make a big toy with nothing but wood and string , in another I am back in the classroom fiddling with bunsen burners while Mr Alexander walks round sniffing with his long distinguished nose in the air .
9 I sometimes think , he wrote , that if in one sense I am back in the nursery trying to make a big toy with nothing but wood and string , in another I am back in the classroom fiddling with bunsen burners while Mr Alexander walks round sniffing with his long distinguished nose in the air .
10 By the time I am back in the tent I am on the borderline , cold enough to wake Tony with disjointed movements .
11 I am back in the hubbub , back in the queue .
12 I am back in the little room at the top of the spiral staircase on Wednesday morning and I am sitting on the Squeez-Ee box , with the minute in front of me , going through the remaining contents of the Quaker Oats archive , page by dusty page .
13 After the meeting of the Cabinet held that same Sunday evening , when it became apparent that agreement could not be reached on the economy package , MacDonald , on his way to the palace , told Sir Ernest Harvey , the Deputy Governor of the Bank of England : ‘ I am off to the Palace to throw in my hand . '
14 ‘ Anyway , ’ she said , ‘ I am off to the pub .
15 Had he not left them the night before , exclaiming : ‘ I am off to the Palace to throw in my hand ’ ?
16 I am out of the office next week but shall be available from 26 June onwards .
17 ‘ Still , I am out of the council at least , ’ Ratagan went on .
18 I 'm through to the final , and now I must make absolutely certain I 'm in the right frame of mind .
19 Anyway , I 'm through with the fiction , so that side of it 's sewn up . ’
20 So when people gather round the manger with wonder and puzzlement , I 'm over in the corner looking at the cows .
21 Th f for a tax plan , that 's what I 'm on at the moment , and , and , and that 's a useful er device .
22 We 're erm that 's the booklet I 'm on at the moment .
23 she says , I 'm on about the lady with the dark hair
24 but I 'm on about the Tuesday after , the Monday after is Easter Monday
25 Hope this peels of without chaffing the sleeve , because I 'm up for the record itself .
26 I 'm up at the crack of dawn every mornin' milkin' the cows , attendin' to the poultry , sowin' , reapin' .
27 But if I 'm up at the shop and I see a little card or something
28 I 'm up on a stage , with a play going on all round me , but no one 's given me a script and I do n't know what to say or do .
29 I 'm up against the six footer , and a five foot ten wife
30 I 'm up in the clouds . ’
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