Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] be [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had lunch and then sat on the wheelbarrow swatting flies , neither willing to go further out of my way , nor to return , just in case I was on the right track . |
| 2 | But I gave my genuine reason for returning earlier , which was the Arts Council 's monthly meeting , in which I was deeply interested and whose chairman I was at the time . |
| 3 | For a change I was in the right place at the right time and got a job , with housing , at the Folger Theatre in Washington DC . |
| 4 | K. M. I was on the Dingle Lane gate — Shell Mex place — and I 'd been down there a few months . |
| 5 | ‘ Of course I was on the same squadron as him for a time . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Of course I was at the time . |
| 7 | Well it was steady income I was in the house every night my wife was happy . |
| 8 | He remembered one of the gunmen kept repeating : ‘ If you guys ai n't got no money I 'm in the mood to kill tonight . ’ |
| 9 | One of the killers allegedly said : ‘ If you guys ai n't got no money I 'm in the mood to kill tonight . ’ |
| 10 | Within minutes I was inside the camp , where I hoped to meet the tinkers who had tried to rob me at Killorglin . |
| 11 | Yeah your , here 's , here 's your Christmas present I was on the streets for that . |
| 12 | that we 've erm , firstly , I want to say hello , I 'm Roger I 'm with the your policies . |
| 13 | By the time I am back in the tent I am on the borderline , cold enough to wake Tony with disjointed movements . |
| 14 | At times I was on the way down and the ball was on the way up . |
| 15 | And then eight or nine weeks after my happy entry into College I was on the carpet — kindly chat , of course , but none the less serious for not being a court martial ! |
| 16 | If anybody said , if , Tuesday we started , if anybody said on the , what they want sent them Wednesday , Thursday , Friday , take all the orders down under their appropriate names in the book but right an Mond Tuesday , Wednesday Thursday my day off and Friday and Saturday I was in the office . |
| 17 | Car crime , nine hundred and sixty cars so far this year have been broke into in the Portsmouth , bearing in mind yours are around the town . |
| 18 | on the other side of the sun and the moon 's on that side and we 're on that side we 're in the light . |
| 19 | ( WES AD LIB ) ( ANNE ) After the break we 're on the water and in the air . |
| 20 | Two er one , if it 's a two bedroom they 're into the caravan outside . |
| 21 | Previous application of this method ( viz. a 1-stage Delphi with interactive feedback ) earlier in this research programme has shown that many employers embarking often for the first time on strategic employment policy-making require some means of obtaining confirmation they are on the right lines . |
| 22 | With sets like the Navstar 2000D and the Decca Mark IV costing £560 they are within the reach of many serious boat anglers . |
| 23 | And on November the twelfth that 's a week on Friday they 're at the Ritz at Lincoln in Consett . |
| 24 | With a lurch they are above the trees and climbing steeply , Paul pressed back into his seat . |
| 25 | And I remember , one afternoon , going out with the whole of the rating committee , to houses at Eastwood and Beeston , and other places , and m in effect measuring them by counting how many nine inch bricks they were across the front and back , to make sure that , you know , nobody was subsidizing anybody else . |
| 26 | For two centuries it was under the Habsburgs , but in the fifteenth it passed to Zurich . |
| 27 | And for a period of centuries it was under the joint rule of Bern and Fribourg . |
| 28 | ‘ … a more meaningful and relevant physical geography may emerge as the product of a new generation of physical geographers who are willing and able to face up to the contemporary needs of the whole subject , and who are prepared to concentrate on the areas of physical reality which are especially relevant to the man-oriented geography It is in the extinction of the traditional division between physical and human geography that new types of collaborative synthesis can arise . ’ |
| 29 | By the time she 'd sat up and pushed the dishevelled hair out of her eyes he was behind the wheel , and the car was moving forward . |
| 30 | An etymologist he was to the bitter end . |