Example sentences of "[be] [prep] the [noun] i [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not even being allowed to come and see you — if it had n't been for the Suvarovs I think I 'd have gone mad . ’ |
| 2 | Oh , the wheels are off the tractor I wonder where it is ? |
| 3 | I am as I am through the choices I have made , and I will not whine at fate . ’ |
| 4 | While you 're in the bathroom I insist on making that drink . |
| 5 | ‘ Have n't you realised yet how selfish I am with the things I own , protecting them , defending them ? ’ |
| 6 | Clifford as he was , cos John had been in the hospital I think the day before he died |
| 7 | Erm and also there are in the top I have n't got a ladder , I ca n't show you now , some of the numbering cos they numbered the bays in in roman letters , one , two , three , four , five , six , seven . |
| 8 | It takes at least five Americans to write a book erm they 're all multi- authored volumes erm for , for most of your purposes , for almost all your purposes er and certainly for basic reading for , for lectures and , and tutorials it really does n't matter which one you read erm there are , I mean there are in the library I think the last time I counted them about twenty five or thirty general textbooks on American politics , it does n't really matter er which one you read . |
| 9 | Erm they are in the plant I do n't know , maybe four hours or six hours . |
| 10 | It 'll be in the drawers I expect . |
| 11 | so he 's going mad really , but , how much it 'll be in the end I do n't know , so |
| 12 | ‘ When I 'm on the road I shop , and I try to see all the towns , and the landmarks . |
| 13 | Or what it will be by the time I 've finished this job . |
| 14 | Well , well his parents I mean the extreme Protestants are , are on the rise I mean in South America you know I mean the world 's largest Pentecostal Churches are in Lima and Peru and millions are now becoming erm born-again Christians in South America . |
| 15 | as things are at the moment I think it |
| 16 | Ah , Ruthie — it 's for the boy I grieve . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ But it 's about the house I want to talk . ’ |
| 18 | There is a very good variety of rolling stock , particularly in the freight scene , while the majority of passenger stock is of the Mark I design . |
| 19 | So theirs is like the way I think . |
| 20 | It 's up the bank I think . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's only when he 's round the corner I mind him not being with me . |
| 22 | Er from the extreme option of having a single unitary c erm council , for the whole of the county , erm to on the other hand having erm eight unitary councils based on the existing , er and it 's in the document I think the clerk 's got and you 've probably got . |
| 23 | I ca n't remember where he comes from , but it 's in the desert I think . |
| 24 | in our house if one of you 's in the bathroom in the bath like if Russell 's in the bath I go and sit on the toilet and talk to him and the dog 's in there as well and you ca n't move . |
| 25 | And er so I mean it 's you know , I am a politician I mean you know , it 's in the blood I 've b been in the in the House of Commons now for about a quarter of a century . |
| 26 | Trouble is in the past I 've given him Liberty silk ties . |
| 27 | The second point is that I 've , the Americans I , I , it 's one of the promises about street life in second from the bottom , two weeks in the winter , four weeks in the summer , well I know to my cost erm through my ear being blasted which is why you 're a County Councillor anyway , that it 's been six weeks at the present time , we 've had a lot of lights going down , okay we 're trying to improve it , we had people walking into cars , er , er a few burglaries which I 'm pleased to say the police have helped out in , but if we 're going to change and get it down from a level of six weeks to two weeks as it is in the area I represent , is that not a question of putting extra resources in it and there 's no good putting promises unless we can deliver . |
| 28 | but it is round the back I know |
| 29 | No it 's beyond the cost I think . |
| 30 | It 's beyond the fag I hate it . |