Example sentences of "[noun sg] [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 | Yeah your , here 's , here 's your Christmas present I was on the streets for that . |
| 11 | By the time I am back in the tent I am on the borderline , cold enough to wake Tony with disjointed movements . |
| 12 | 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 ! |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ( WES AD LIB ) ( ANNE ) After the break we 're on the water and in the air . |
| 16 | Two er one , if it 's a two bedroom they 're into the caravan outside . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | With a lurch they are above the trees and climbing steeply , Paul pressed back into his seat . |
| 19 | ‘ … 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 . ’ |
| 20 | An etymologist he was to the bitter end . |
| 21 | Well shall I tell you that a certain member of the er medical staff , you know they 've got bollards where the staff can put their cars in a certain place , and one member of the staff came out and said , please remove your car it 's in the staff parking part , the person said , yes I even had to move the bollard . |
| 22 | Lord Keith at p 640 said , as a general rule it is in the public interest that confidences should be respected , and the encouragement of such respect may in itself constitute a sufficient ground for recognising and enforcing the obligation of confidence even where the confider can point to no specific detriment to himself . |
| 23 | AT 9 PM he was on the operating table . |
| 24 | BENEFICIAL gets another chance at Goodwood today to demonstrate just what a loss he is to the Derby . |
| 25 | Now , I can hold my liquor as well as the next man , so it is ludicrous to suggest that when I reversed the club van into the tea hut I was under the influence . |
| 26 | So er when I was , I was on the county council I was on the welfare committee and er in later years I was on the planning committee . |
| 27 | For a second she was on the point of executing Ace for insubordination . |
| 28 | He said this week : ‘ If we do n't get grants for this work we 're on the dole . |
| 29 | the main explanation why so long to reply is very much geared to the fact that we are in the hands of the Electricity Board for everything below the junction box on the street lighted column , if the bolt is in the cable , or a cable junction or in a circuit we are in the hands in another organization totally , who will have their own timescales and priority to responses . |
| 30 | Er , but in the long run we 're on the lookout to continue to build both organically and by acquisition where appropriate er , on , on the main sectors . |