Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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1 | There are plenty of surgical patients walking around with only one lung , and some of them are down to a third of normal lung area . |
2 | I say I been out for a walk because I ca n't sleep . |
3 | Every time I go to Cambridge I come back depressed as hell ; then as soon as I am back to a Norfolk class spirits soar again . |
4 | I 'm up on a stage , with a play going on all round me , but no one 's given me a script and I do n't know what to say or do . |
5 | Please excuse me — I 'm off for a refill ’ , ‘ I 'm enjoying our chat , but I 've just seen someone whom I need to speak to urgently . ’ |
6 | I 'm off for a few days again so i 'll be a bit quiet . |
7 | The Germans are just over the river there — I 'm off on a recce directly — and I have n't time to muck about . |
8 | Tomorrow I 'm off on a very exciting two-week journey to the central plains of Venezuela , the Llanos . |
9 | Tomorrow I 'm off on a very exciting two-week journey to the central plains of Venezuela , the Llanos . |
10 | Besides , what makes you think I 'm in for a long wait ? ’ |
11 | I know I 'm in for a long night . |
12 | Ed was just like a one off and I 'm not forward any more at all and , you know , everyone thinks I am you know and Pete thought right I 'm in for a good time here , you know , I can probably get her you know , and so Charlie would have to carry out his part . |
13 | ‘ So I 'm in with a chance ? ’ |
14 | At any rate , I reckon I 'm in with a sporting chance . |
15 | So I thought well I 'm in with a chance , you know , one 's wanted a and this leg repairing so compare it with that no |
16 | I 'll ignore that , I 'm in with a chance . |
17 | ‘ Well , I 'm in fer a right 'idin' if I ai n't got that bleedin' contraption out o' the 'ouse by the time my Joshua comes 'ome , ‘ specially if 'e 's bin on the turps again . |
18 | ‘ I 'm back for a couple of nights , ’ I said weakly . |
19 | I 'm back with a computer magazine now . |
20 | And , of course , the trouble is , and once again I 'm back into a a bandwagon effort of mine , is the financial aspect , if you actually examine the Japanese philosophy , then their loan system is totally different ours when it comes to regenerating the manufacturing industry . |
21 | And when I 'm back in a minute or two |
22 | I 'm down to a measly |
23 | Do you know I 've had a blue pen , I 've had a black pen and now I 'm down to a bloody pencil . |
24 | I 'm out of a job . ’ |
25 | Not much I says no I 'm out of a job . |
26 | When I 'm out for a stroll , I often go round by Cubitt Town . |
27 | See , now I deliberately sit , when I 'm out in a Land Rover , with one arm up a bit higher than the other and one leg a bit higher . |
28 | See when I go down to John 's now I 'm out like a light there . |
29 | On one occasion I was round at a neighbour 's house and despite my warnings that it could get rather messy , they insisted that I show them how Dawn fed . |
30 | At last I was up on a level with him . |