Example sentences of "be [adv prt] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suspect , though , there can be no doubt about which side she would have been on in the public debate about fox-hunting prompted by last week 's Private Member 's Bill . |
| 2 | I said three flights that I 've been on in the last fortnight . |
| 3 | Although members are down in the senior section a greatly improved atmosphere now exists . |
| 4 | Although members are down in the senior section a greatly improved atmosphere now exists . |
| 5 | ‘ No one knows what I 've been through in the last 12 months , ’ he said . |
| 6 | What we 've been through in the last few years has brought us a lot closer , and that 's part of the reason I 'm getting out of the rat race of international cricket … certainly for a few years , anyway . |
| 7 | Chairman John McBaine , passing sentence , labelled it a ‘ tragic case ’ , adding it was difficult to realise what suffering Lee had been through in the last few months . |
| 8 | She knew that her presence and unwavering support was as important to the outcome as all the physical and psychological preparation that Lennox had been through in the past few months . |
| 9 | But mostly it was directed towards herself , and whatever it was in her that seemed to respond to some call given out by the least suitable of men ; despite what she 'd been through in the past couple of years she appeared to have learned precisely nothing . |
| 10 | Where are you then , yeah , but , you 're up in the high |
| 11 | where are one , we 're up in the high are n't we ? |
| 12 | We all head off into the bloody storm , and then this whole horror comic gets sorted out when we 're back in the real world . |
| 13 | They 're back in the new Mazda MX5 . |
| 14 | Think of Woody Guthrie and you 're back in the presidential alley once more , for America 's folk hero was named after Woodrow Wilson , the man who took the USA into World War I after attempting to keep his country neutral , a 1916 song claiming ‘ He Kept Us Out The War ’ , though a later ragtime hit contained the lyric : ‘ We 're going to celebrate the end of the war in ragtime — be sure that Woodrow Wilson leads the band . ’ |
| 15 | After only 20 doublings , which does n't take very long , we are up in the millions . |
| 16 | So erm yes I think everybody 's very very disappointed as I think we probably heard with Paul Simpson because United certainly in my books , played some of the best football I 've seen them play since they 've been back in the second division in the erm first half , but really did let things slip away a little bit in the second . |
| 17 | Well Peter , I 'd I 'd love to say yes , as you know , but erm they 've gone to Swindon the last two years since United have been back in the second division , and really they 've performed dismally . |
| 18 | Since I 've understood what management was about — I suppose that must have been back in the early 1950s — I 've had the philosophy that if I go into a job I must do it better than the bloke who 's been doing it before me . |
| 19 | For the last three days ten novice sailors have been out in the Western Approaches , sailing in winds of 40 knots or more through occasional sleet showers . |
| 20 | All being well , the skies will part once or twice during the festival — only the second time the event has been out in the open air . |
| 21 | While I 've been out in the fresh air enjoying myself she 's been stuck in this featureless boarding house , wondering if I 'll ever come back . |
| 22 | Although you may get ridiculously low because of pressing on too hard , when , a few minutes later , you are back in the good conditions several thousand feet up , you must forget the wasted time and concentrate on flying normally . |
| 23 | Gloucester against Bridgend … that 's the game tonight … its more than a run out too … next week the cherry and whites are back in the first division fight at Northampton … but no chance of planning ahead six first teamers are missing |
| 24 | The fact remains that he was murdered on the night after his father 's funeral and if the two are unconnected we are back in the funny coincidences department . |
| 25 | When you are back in the main square of the Malá Strana , imagine it encircled with medieval houses set above arcades . |
| 26 | I am back in the little room at the top of the spiral staircase on Wednesday morning and I am sitting on the Squeez-Ee box , with the minute in front of me , going through the remaining contents of the Quaker Oats archive , page by dusty page . |
| 27 | Erm y'know erm it 's also erm perhaps interesting the way things have er have shifted you know in the last decade or so , like that thing that erm used to be on in the seventies , It Ai n't Half Hot Mum , with um a number of people pretending to be Indians and and exhibiting all the stereotypes y'know it ai n't half racist mum is probably more erm er in fact there was a book called It Ai n't Half Racist Mum that er Leicester University library had er y'know going on about exactly that you know the sort of y'know racism of comedy . |
| 28 | They must be all done or they would n't be down in the first place would they ? |
| 29 | ‘ All members of the team are to be down in the lower block , with their kit , half an hour before lock-up … |
| 30 | Glasgow High/Kelvinside are hopeful that Shade Munro 's prolonged absence will be over in the New Year . |