Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] be [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ooh I , I mean being in a right mess |
| 2 | We were both professors at Imperial College in 1956–59 but the impression I got was of a professor somewhat on the Kissinger model — a status symbol for the college , but not an approachable colleague . |
| 3 | This was the first time I 'd been into a prison and a number of things struck me during the day . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'd been to a party at Cipriani 's in The Strand which went on all hours . |
| 5 | I 'd been , a few weeks ago I 'd been to a wedding , and it was the most boring |
| 6 | I 'd been after a pair for ages . |
| 7 | I 'd been in a light sleep . |
| 8 | It was the first time , too , that I 'd been in a classroom with girls , and I got in with a bad bunch of women . |
| 9 | I think if I 'd been in a Western country I would have had a lot more comeback … |
| 10 | I 'd been in a couple of dreadful films by then — I think I 'd swooned , screamed , kissed the hero … |
| 11 | Yes , I know , yes but I mean it 's interesting at lunch time I had a , I had a working lunch with someone and a month after we had finished all the work and stuff , we got on to a whole pile of other things and , and I was talking about some of the -ists and one of the -ists I was talking about was feminism and how I 'd been in an amazing meeting a few weeks ago where you know I used that word and the women , it was all a meeting with women , the women there had absolutely freaked at the use of the word feminism and feminists . |
| 12 | ‘ The first day 's threshing I done was for a man by the name of Rogers , Harry Rogers . |
| 13 | The over-whelming impression I received was of a well-planned , organised operation where the human resources - always the most important part of any undertaking - are properly used . |
| 14 | The crèche I run is in a factory . |
| 15 | I like being in a war and I like being there because it 's a great adventure for me , but my duty is to be there for a reason , not just to have a bloody good time … |
| 16 | ‘ Well , now that you ask , ’ he said smoothly , ‘ the picture I get is of a group of young people with more money than sense , buying temporary pleasures because they have n't got a clue where to find enjoyment of the more permanent sort . ’ |
| 17 | I always thought I had a good appetite , but I remember being at a college feast once at Cambridge , where they had seven or eight courses and the elderly dons seemed to have less trouble than anyone else getting through it . |
| 18 | I remember being in a supermarket once and seeing a pregnant woman struggling with the door . |
| 19 | Why , I remember being in a stagecoach , with the Apaches attacking , and out on the road with Henry Fonda and the Okies and shooting Tyrone Power while he was hanging up a picture … ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I remember being in a mood once when he told me , ‘ You 'll go mad some day ’ . |
| 21 | The saddest story I heard was of a sheriff officer going to a door to collect items that were to be sold at auction . |
| 22 | For example , all the competitors had to blow into what resembled a gas meter and the capacity of the lung was recorded , I failed to see the point of this exercise , and that , with other medical experiements , only fired my resolve to upset the doctors ' wager , which I believe was for a box of cigars . |
| 23 | ‘ I suppose being at an emotional low I did actually take heroin there for the first time , ’ he said . |
| 24 | I know I was lucky , my head and body having sustained a beating I felt was within an inch of my life . |
| 25 | After his liaison ended and he was alone again , he wrote simply and forlornly , ‘ I hated being alone so much that I preferred being with a bad whore to being alone . ’ |
| 26 | But the last thing I did was for a guitar player in Nashville , Chip Young , who put together an album — which incidentally is getting released pretty soon — and he has ten tracks with ten different guests : local session players , myself , Chet 's on one , Grady Martin , Jerry Reed , Jerry Kennedy , Wayne Moss and various other guys , but I think guitar players out there will like it . ’ |
| 27 | S and er two or three friends , oh I , I had been on a number of cruises before that , to Germany , to Norway and Sweden , to Denmark . |
| 28 | I remembered how once when I had been in a crowd teasing an awkward boy at school I had noticed his terror and been glad I was not him . |
| 29 | The rate I require is as a small trader . |
| 30 | In fact , although the manual supplied with the machine I purchased was for a KH710 , the machine turned out to be a KH585 , possibly an earlier model . |