Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] be [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ooh I , I mean being in a right mess |
| 2 | The crèche I run is in a factory . |
| 3 | 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 … |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I remember being in a supermarket once and seeing a pregnant woman struggling with the door . |
| 7 | 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 … ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I remember being in a mood once when he told me , ‘ You 'll go mad some day ’ . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ I suppose being at an emotional low I did actually take heroin there for the first time , ’ he said . |
| 11 | The rate I require is as a small trader . |
| 12 | And I said to myself , I 've been under a boss |
| 13 | ‘ I was thinking that whenever I 've been into a student 's flat there was a different atmosphere … a lot of things pinned up on the walls , for instance posters mostly … ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I 've been through a lot of stuff because of it . |
| 15 | I 've been at a desk for years ; I want no more of it and I told them . |
| 16 | There are traps you can fall into if you do too much television — although I 've been on a lot since '89 , I do tend to turn most things down . |
| 17 | ‘ But now that I 've been on a regular contract at Brookside for the last two years I can afford a season ticket in the stand ! ’ |
| 18 | Well I , when I come back from Stop Hill when I 've been on a long shift till five o'clock , I 'm whacked because their bungalow is so warm |
| 19 | Well I 've been on a ship and I 'm not very well ! |
| 20 | I phoned me friend up you know and erm on Friday and asked and she said you do n't sound very well , I said I 've got a headache I said I 've had a headache every , cos I 've been on a diet and she turned round and said , she said you know she says it 's funny she says erm , you know what 's with us , what 's it with ? |
| 21 | you know er , it 's funny since I 've been on a diet er , it is , I must be getting , now where |
| 22 | You know it 's funny when I 've been up when I 've been on a diet , I mean smelling , smoked out , smoked out on the house |
| 23 | But since then I 've been on a unit of tropical forestry in Oxford Forestry Institute , and I 've been travelling regularly , almost yearly since I 've been there . |
| 24 | But I 've been on an immense number of statutory instruments upstairs er and everybody says they 're greatly needed , they usually say they 're greatly needed because they want to go out in three or four minutes and ten thirty comes and ten thirty five they 're out . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm better than I 've been for a long time . ’ |
| 26 | Just even I 've been for a wee ! |
| 27 | I 'm just getting now because erm erm I 've been for an aud not an audition . |
| 28 | I 've been for an interview with Mencap . |
| 29 | ‘ I 've been to a party in the village of Sutton , and I 'm on my way home . ’ |
| 30 | I 've been to a fire where there was a huge black cloud coming out of a , a flat |