Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] be [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Next Friday when you go to get your money , cos I was n't always with the collier , mostly I was on the day work . |
| 2 | Right I 'm in the middle of painting at the moment as well s I thought it 'll be slack cos everyone 's breaking up and everyone 'll be saying forget and everyone 's saying oh yes I do want a lesson . |
| 3 | While all this was going on I was in the middle of trying to buy my farm back from a pension fund . |
| 4 | Erm , I took her at her word , I still looked for work , I did n't stop looking for work but I took it that she was happy enough me being on the dole if it meant that we could stay around Bay or Anglesey . |
| 5 | Suddenly I was in the helicopter with the doors off and a medical bag clutched in my sweaty hand , travelling at breakneck speed fifty feet above dried river beds , paddy fields , termite hills , baobab trees , beach , forest , more forest … |
| 6 | Apparently I was on the edge of the crater and the main blast had gone over me . |
| 7 | ‘ Perhaps I 'm near the centre of the earth . |
| 8 | Perhaps I was in the wrong place , the wrong part of the town . |
| 9 | So I 'm on the defensive so he 's you know he 's |
| 10 | but I 'm going race track as well so I 'm on the race |
| 11 | I could have put my doctor down but he 's down in London so I 'm in the process of changing doctors again . |
| 12 | So I was on the lookout . |
| 13 | I do n't like shouting so I was in the middle . |
| 14 | So I was in the port , running around trying to charge up a card from the outlets , and none of them were working I was putting in my ID , and the authority for the credit , and the screen would say |
| 15 | So theirs is like the way I think . |
| 16 | ‘ Perhaps she was at the pub . |
| 17 | Perhaps she was in the bath . |
| 18 | ‘ Only you 're on the wrong bus , ’ he continued , ‘ you want the 800 Dalesbus — you 'll have to pick it up at Ilkley . ’ |
| 19 | So she is about the same age as her stepson . |
| 20 | So she was under the sea ; this was green water around her , not air . |
| 21 | So you 're on the bottom ? |
| 22 | So you 're like the arty film student in The Yob ? |
| 23 | so you 're in the end , you have to say to him , well you 'll have to wet your pants , cos because , it 's like a bi bit longer the trek . |
| 24 | You know if you have the telly on number eight so you were on the video channel ? |
| 25 | There is no notable deceleration , but I do n't know that my mind was recording anything but fear , nor is there any particular screech or roll , but suddenly we 're around the corner and accelerating down towards the tunnel and Jackie 's saying , ‘ You can relax now , Keith . ’ |
| 26 | This single action and comment implied a huge transformation in but one simple step , for suddenly we were on the edge of non-projected activity — ‘ some people outside my house ’ places the children in a markedly different relationship to the drama . |
| 27 | At the forward end of that we came to a glass-panelled door , which needed no key , and suddenly we were in the comparative quietness of the drivers ' cab , right at the front of the train . |
| 28 | In these passages there is a feeling of necessary novocaine ; morally we are like the refrigerated tongue on the dentist 's chair , mouth open as wide as it ever goes to the instruments of pain , but speechless . |
| 29 | Perhaps we 're in the middle of a nest of spies whom Meredith-Lee was about to unmask . |
| 30 | Perhaps we are in the midst of a similar , if much longer drawn out , process of education about the nature of quantum mechanical reality . |