Example sentences of "be [adv prt] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The air was cold on stage , the little orchestra seemed to be down a mine and all she could see was a very small bald head and a very long baton . |
| 2 | Used to go down , well I used to be down every night , rubbing the salt in this , to make the bacon and I had a smokehouse down the yard where I used to smoke the bacon . |
| 3 | I 'll be down the park . |
| 4 | Is it th , everybody 's gon na be down the park , yeah ? |
| 5 | Yeah cos then , th they 're not gon na be down the park are they ? |
| 6 | Nothing down here we want cat food , lard and Ryvita Ryvita will be down the bottom here , I suppose and lard is right she wants brown Ryvita quickly . |
| 7 | I remember asking on the shop floor of a division , the board of which had been reduced from fifteen to four , what the major difference was This was not because the fifteen previous board members had felt to be down the line , and was told , to my surprise , that the biggest difference was that they now knew what was going on . |
| 8 | It was his father , Colin Cauldhame , who got the cordite from the ship-breaking yard there used to be down the coast . |
| 9 | ‘ A few years ago we 'd be down the piano bar listening to … ’ |
| 10 | he might be down the club |
| 11 | As much as she loved Lizzy , and as much as she wanted to help her , without her job they would all be up a creek without a paddle . |
| 12 | Both Thins and Bargain Bookshops expected to be up a bit ahead of inflation , which was not good enough for David Flatman but ‘ a near miss ’ for Ainslie Thin . |
| 13 | Well , the market will probably be up a year from now , and if he holds shares in all the ex-state companies ( 36 , less two taken over ) his risks are tolerably spread , with worthy water companies balancing clouded bits of aerospace . |
| 14 | Unfortunately the powerful television lights kept melting the glue , and in spite of extra large dollops of the stuff , the G from ‘ Winning ’ fell off every night and I had to be up a ladder fixing it back again at six the next morning . |
| 15 | Because of the political situation , the ferry route had to be up the west coast of Africa . |
| 16 | For a while there I thought we were going to be up the creek without a paddle . ’ |
| 17 | He told her : ‘ I dare n't be otherwise — because if I were ever in a compromising situation , if the police raided or if someone kissed and told I 'd be up the creek . ’ |
| 18 | Erm , they write down nothing , they remember nothing , and I have to phone these clowns every other day , to make sure that they 're doing what we agreed they 're going to , otherwise I have no panels next month for my stand , and I would be up the creek . |
| 19 | you would be up the creek without your paddle would n't you ? |
| 20 | Normally playing seated amphitheaters , our audience and the Mary Chain 's tend to be up the back on the lawns . |
| 21 | He 'd do all the slaughtering , do all that sort of business , but he would n't er he did , he used to come and help us Fridays and Saturdays but he 'd rather be up the farm on his tractor . |
| 22 | Our last patrol before Christmas was to be up the East coast to Buckie where we would leave the ship and travel home by train . |
| 23 | Officers took turns in conducting the Sunday morning service but every Sunday evening Eva would be up the front conducting the soldiers ' meeting . |
| 24 | She 'll be up the pole . |
| 25 | Thankfully it was a red-hot summer , and they could be out every minute . |
| 26 | The men said they would be out every night to " pay for " this prosecution and during the following week two fallow deer fawns were killed . |
| 27 | Suffice to say Kennel Club standards will be out the window on Top Dog Day . |
| 28 | All that will be out the window too . |
| 29 | when he went in mum started crying she said Lyn he ai n't coming back he ai n't coming back I said he might mum , he 's just might so anyway that was , at one o'clock he went down , quarter past five , ring , we kept saying can you ring and see if , and they rung said be out the operating theatre to tell us how far they 'd got and what was happening , he 's had four units of blood |
| 30 | I 'll be , I 'll be out the room . |