Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] be [prep] another [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had time to have a word with everyone and on the occasions when I met him in England he was more than helpful — unlike some of his colleagues in the Press room who pestered you for information when at Leopardstown , then pretended you were from another planet when you went to a big meeting in England . |
| 2 | For a moment he imagined he was in another world , a simple uncomplicated world : a world where there was no place down below in the valley where men were being prepared for war ; that there was no place in Northumberland where a woman sat in a room all day with only her thoughts for company ; that there was no one called Carrie Smith ; that the world had dwindled and there was only this secluded garden and a secluded house , as had been said , with the hills to the back of it and the river at its feet and two women so unalike , yet alike : so understanding , so thoughtful of each other , and not only of each other , but of him . |
| 3 | ‘ He thinks we 're on another planet . ’ |
| 4 | I saw flood-lit spaces , heard music and felt I was in another world , somewhere in Switzerland . |
| 5 | Juliet felt she was in another world , she felt as though she were intoxicated . |
| 6 | ‘ We always thought we were on another planet . ’ |
| 7 | That lightness of his , each step as though he might take off altogether ! — and then , how he stood there , at the foot of the stairs , straight and slender ; you 'd think he was from another world , he was so pale and fine , with his glistening cropped hair … but he was scowling most horribly . |
| 8 | When Marc spoke it was on another topic altogether . |
| 9 | Raine used to say I was like another daughter . |
| 10 | Even when you wish he was on another planet . |