Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [pron] [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the use of these techniques of neutralization , which are themselves embedded in the ‘ structural immorality ’ of corporations , executives are able to violate the law without feeling guilt or denting their respectable self-image . |
| 2 | I think for a day 's er work it 's worth assessing the three top people identified with the six outside people that I 've identified who are you know in the next division down to see how they compare . |
| 3 | And who are you playing in the semis ? |
| 4 | I used to come , and I used to go from there just past the top of there was two biggish houses erm who was it lived in the one some , somebody named and er and then there was er who was something to do at er on and somebody named who was , got a brewery at Dalston and , and they were ladies and proper genteel-type ladies at that . |
| 5 | There 's plenty to do in the evening at all our HCI Clubs . |
| 6 | There 's nothing to do in the country , so it 's impossible to do anything bad . |
| 7 | I 'll have to go up to shop to get some shopping cos there 's nothing to eat in the house . |
| 8 | Er one 's in the , works for himself , he 's brickie , and there 's one works in the glazer . |
| 9 | ‘ There 's something moving in the Forest ! ’ |
| 10 | ‘ There 's something moving in the shadows . |
| 11 | At last there 's something stirring in the literary undergrowth . |
| 12 | It 's just the pressure that you feel on the road particularly when you have a large vehicle behind you — a big lorry and they ca n't overtake because there 's something coming in the opposite direction … it does make you quite nervous . |
| 13 | For many people there is something terrifying in the thought that in a universe in which man is so insignificant in comparison with the unreasoning forces of nature , most of his own organism belongs to or wants to defect to nature . |
| 14 | Thing about this programme it is so it is so crucial to everything that goes on at Radio York while it is happening , they eat in the other room that 's how much er interest there is they eat in the other room . |
| 15 | Yet there is nothing to show in the trophy cabinet of his Harpenden home to commemorate a romantic chapter in Middlesbrough 's history . |
| 16 | Nightlife is good , and there is plenty to do in the evenings , whether you 're looking for a quiet drink or a bop in a disco . |
| 17 | But while you are waiting , there is plenty to see in the historic ‘ plague village ’ , such as the village stocks , the original ‘ Plague Cottage ’ and , of course , the church of St Lawrence . |
| 18 | ‘ Ralph , ’ said the captain ‘ we are unsure whether there is anybody left in the building , it is up to you Carter and Jo to find out . |
| 19 | There was nothing to check in the front parlour ; hardly anything to say goodbye to , for the room was empty of furniture and must remain that way until the shops would once again have chairs and sofas and rugs and curtains to sell . |
| 20 | There was nothing left in the world but this vertiginous wave . |
| 21 | There was nothing left in the world save the searing anguish of her imprisoned fingers , and the hot fierce throb of straining muscles . |
| 22 | This made conquest almost impossible , as there was nothing to conquer in the customary sense of European or Asiatic warfare . |
| 23 | After that there was no-one living in the house . |
| 24 | ‘ There was something subduing in the influence of that silent and solemn and awful presence ( the Jungfrau ) … one had the sense of being under the brooding contemplation of spirit , not an inert mass of rocks and ice — a spirit which had looked down , through the slow drift of ages , upon a million vanished races of men , and judged them ; and would judge a million more — and still be there , watching , unchanged and unchangeable after all life should be gone and the earth had become a vacant desolation . ’ |
| 25 | Had it I seen that there was someone sleeping in the bed my course of action would have been otherwise . |
| 26 | then it 's what belongs in the trailer as to what belongs out |
| 27 | By the time it gets to the papers or my manager at Arsenal , it 's me lying in the gutter . ’ |
| 28 | And it worked , it was something to say in the international talking shops . |
| 29 | ‘ He it was who stood in the deepest Sorcery Chamber of tara and read from the Book of the Academy of Necromancers the incantation . |
| 30 | That way you see what it was you liked in the first place , and you see it fresh and clean again — like new . |