Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] be [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did so , and seeing I was of no more use , I rushed inside to awaken my older brother and sister to show them what had happened . |
| 2 | Too late in the day because all the hotels are full and I end up tramping round in the dark , lugging my pack and money ( cash , a great wad of hard currency ) , nervous of the hatchet-faced youths who watch me meandering round , concentrating so intently on making it look as though I know exactly where I 'm heading that I soon have no idea where I am on the mapless streets of Algiers . |
| 3 | Every other time I 've been in somebody 's flat like this I 've known where I am by the books . ’ |
| 4 | I stayed right where I was on the floor telling myself I 'd be fine in just a few minutes . |
| 5 | That was very early on in my filming if anyone had asked me I would have said ‘ I 'm always on the move , you know I never sit down in a lesson , and I do n't sit down but where I was on the move was in a very limited space so just having the camera at the back on that table , just having it still showed me so much about what was going on in the room and how you use the time … |
| 6 | Cunning — she could find out where I was from the town code . |
| 7 | I 'd been having a bit of a go about putting your hand up but every time he put his hand up I 'm bending over somebody or I 'm in a different part of the room . |
| 8 | The thing is , if they always give you and you , your , nine times out of ten what they do is like , is either , they either put a can over there or a beer or something , they put it over the end of the , the weapon pull the trigger and that , even with a flash that can go like that , and then they show you one with the , the erm flashes right which have more powerful than the and they 've actually got same again same charge as a life grenade in , but it just plain cardboard so , obviously no trap , but if you lay on them ooh er , you get or something you do n't throw what they do now is they put one they light one , put the helmet over the top of it and make it lit , it runs like buggery and it 'll go a hundred , a hundred and fifty foot up in the air and inside it looks like its been and where its been in the thing it 'll be like er , six seventy foot off the ground , I mean I laid on one once and I , landed about two foot too my left so I 've rolled over , rolled , rolled , and rolled , as I 've rolled I 've rolled over on my back and I 've had all loads of over , like the , I had a roll there its like the er |
| 9 | Events which are severely threatful only for a few days , or which are of a relatively mild or even positive nature , are unlikely to be associated with depression ( see chapter 4 ) . |
| 10 | And this has been interpreted as meaning measures which are excessively costly , burdensome , unusual , or which are of no real benefit to the patient . |
| 11 | Those countries that could not ‘ keep up ’ with Germany or which were on a different economic cycle from her would suffer badly in terms of their standards of living . |
| 12 | ‘ If it was necessary to come to a decision on this aspect , I would have to say that , in my judgment , to go from the grandmother 's house where she is at the moment and leaving the job she has in Birkenhead with the Social Services Department , to Canada with no work and no money and living on charity and food banks , would be an intolerable situation for the child . |
| 13 | I 'll have her brought down here to Florence as soon as she can be moved but we 'll have to leave her where she is for the moment — in fact , put me through to Pontino again now , will you ? |
| 14 | Emily is in her first year at Perin 's School where she is in the netball team , and also plays flute and piano . |
| 15 | She then went onto Yale Law School where she was on the board of the law review and met her husband . |
| 16 | Miss Rogers , twice Irish girls champion , got her nose in front at the eighth but was forced to concede the tenth where her second overshot the green into very thick rough and the twelfth where she was in a greenside bunker . |
| 17 | Mr Loveitt ignored Jess who remained where she was by the wall . |
| 18 | The moral to be drawn from this sad episode is : ‘ Do n't put your money into any business you can not understand , and where you are at the mercy of the advice given by others , however trustworthy . ’ |
| 19 | As we have seen , this refers to a sense of knowing who or where you are in a society which has increasingly ‘ spread ’ over time and space . |
| 20 | New identikit cities where it will not much matter where you are in the world . |
| 21 | 1 State exactly where you were at the time ( if in a motor vehicle please give number ) . |
| 22 | Secondly what I 'd like , want both groups to do is to think how you would describe that person 's performance in an informal situation when you 're down the met , down the pub with your mates , or you 're in the room , speaking to that person . |
| 23 | Well er , she 's at home , or she 's in the erm R E I |
| 24 | The leader or high priest(ess) is chosen for the quality of psychic power exhibited , and how open he or she is to the life-force . |
| 25 | As long as an MP declares he or she is on the take these payments somehow are deemed acceptable . |
| 26 | ‘ And how do you check that the guest will be able to talk once he or she is on the show ? |
| 27 | It is with the subject in mind that Minton restates his belief that unless a painter paints with love , he or she is like a blacksmith hammering away with appropriate tools but no fire . |
| 28 | To provide an illustration , a child who gets into trouble is much more likely to come before a court if he or she is from a poor home and has parents who do not get on with the welfare authorities or the police , than if his or her family is prosperous , respectable and willing to co-operate with the police and social services . |
| 29 | Anyone who has been alongside a ship when he or she is in a small boat knows the way she towers over you at a dockside . |
| 30 | Downlights should be , if possible , fitted with some sort of anti-glare device or any unfortunate standing underneath could feel that he or she is in an interrogation chamber . |