Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [pron] [adj] [coord] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Goodness , yes — they 're in their seventies and very active , especially the younger sister . |
| 2 | It 's hard enough keeping the weight down when you 're on your own or just with the family . |
| 3 | Bakers are numerous , but their ovens are unlike our own and very defective . |
| 4 | Without a convincing explanation and an insistence that the checks must be done properly , many students will become careless and slap dash when they are on their own and away from close supervision . |
| 5 | But I mean I do get used to being on my own and then like I mean I say he 's there like the , the other morni he went down his mother 's and he did n't come back till three o'clock so he 's not there constantly all the time . |
| 6 | Nowadays the mid-1950s rock craze seems to provoke nothing more than a nostalgic chuckle , and when the original Teds are remembered at all within the contemporary preoccupation with hooliganism it is as something quaint and remarkably innocent . |
| 7 | The impression that a simple one-sided morality is of itself nobler and more clear-headed than a complex one is false . |
| 8 | She 's , she 's in her twenties and theoretically the , the risk is |
| 9 | Yeah but she 's not , she 's in her twenties and theoretically |
| 10 | The cross-fertilisation is in itself exciting and highly productive . |
| 11 | He is on his own and definitely talking aloud to himself in the privacy of his room . |
| 12 | It is at its best and most characteristic in its bottom octave-and-a-half . |
| 13 | Here she was in her sixties and still dreaming like a schoolgirl about a man . |
| 14 | Devlin Parnham was in his seventies but apart from the sparsity of his frame and a slight tendency to stoop you would never have known it . |
| 15 | He was at his best and most at home in the primary sector . |