Example sentences of "be [prep] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well every year erm we 're like at the moment a couple of light years away from it |
| 2 | For God 's sake you know what they 're like in the village . |
| 3 | Erm I du n no , the thing is our prom , yeah , is the day before so like I 'm gon na be pretty fucked erm two , a couple of my friends who are coming , they 've got they 're like in the middle of the ex their exams like erm I know my one friend 's driving there but he 's going from St John 's Wood , thanks , erm we might be able to pick you up , I 'm not sure , it depends what 's happening or you might go with Josh , like we 'll meet outside probably . |
| 4 | Because i if you 're from outside the village you would have no entitlement to land in the village at all would you ? |
| 5 | I 'll kill him , they do n't worry , they do n't worry about what , what bills you 've got going out , I E a car on H P or your or erm furniture on H P , when you 're on on the dole you 're you ai n't supposed to have had any bills incurred |
| 6 | So unit four talks about how to plan erm how to plan it which is where we 're at at the minute . |
| 7 | It just depends on where you 're at at the time . |
| 8 | Yeah , past experience to find out the level they 're at at the moment . |
| 9 | Erm , you know , you can find this , to actually need to work on where you 're at in the cycle and why you 're there , and what it means , to what you 're trying to do . |
| 10 | They 're by on the fireplace . |
| 11 | Imagine what it would have been like without the railway . |
| 12 | Settling in , I looked out of the window and reflected on what it must have been like for the men building the Trans-Australia Railway when hundreds of navvies , using horses , camels and a few machines , battled their way across the inhospitable plain , which in winter crackles underfoot with frost while summer temperatures exceed a baking 50°C . |
| 13 | ‘ I admit that 's what it has been like in the past . ’ |
| 14 | I do n't know what the roadworks are like on the A one |
| 15 | You know , they 're just , they 're just waiting you know , sort of Others are like on the ball almost too much . |
| 16 | I do n't know what the other ones are like in the bags . |
| 17 | The same report , reversing the earlier legend excusing the Führer because he was being kept in the dark by his underlings in the Party , added : ‘ Even the Führer has lost much sympathy among the people because he has apparently let himself be taken in by his Party people and does not seem to notice what things are like in the State today . ’ |
| 18 | The objects of their fantasy tend to be someone they are with at the time , often a work colleague . |
| 19 | And like , Scott told me and thinking about it if I 'd of been in in the frame , frame of mind that I 'm in know for example , I would of sort of pah ! |
| 20 | I mean , you are in in the afternoon on Tuesday ? |
| 21 | But only days before Mr Sok Hay stood in front of his villa speculating on how much his property might be worth in the future , Khmer Rouge guerrillas had ambushed a Phnom Penh army patrol in the hills close by . |
| 22 | The manufacturer reckons that the deal will be worth in the region of £100m over the next few years as Cambridge-based Ionica rolls out its UK network . |
| 23 | Of course that is just what it used to be for before the invasion of the television and the mobile office . |
| 24 | but then , on the other hand , I 'm not the sort of person who , I mean , if it 's something like that I can ask people , but I 've got friends who are quite cheeky , who will ask things , I mean , like if somebody does something for me , I 'm like , are you sure , are you sure , you do n't mind , and like , I 'm like over the top the other way . |
| 25 | That 's what I 'm like on the inside . |
| 26 | What it will be like at the age of three score and ten remains to be seen . |
| 27 | God alone knew what the traffic would be like on the freeway , through the mean streets of Edgware , down to the inferno that was the A406 , on through gloomy Tolworth and Chessington , out to the no-man's-land that was Leatherhead . |
| 28 | This is just what I thought it 'd be like on the streets of Chicago . |
| 29 | He drove in silence then and I closed my eyes , pretending I was asleep , my head nodding , and all the time my mind reaching forward to the future , trying to visualise what it would be like on the boat . |
| 30 | What must it be like for the lads in Riyadh or Tehran , watching the women of their choice swoop around the supermarkets in twenty-five yards of black drapery ? |