Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [pron] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chemistry had been between them from the start , waiting only for a wayward spark to ignite it . |
| 2 | Margaret had not been through anything like the rebellion her sister had known , but they both shared a great sense of elation . |
| 3 | Er and then finally on Mr Thomas , er Mr Thomas erm , a number of occasions has er has referred to these sites in and around the er er urban area , if Mr Thomas would like us to show us a list of those sites , er we will look at them , we 've been through it on a number of occasions , square inch almost by square inch , but I 'd be very interested for Mr Thomas 's list of sites in and around the urban area . |
| 4 | He 'd never been through it since the time Barry had locked him in . |
| 5 | ‘ Cropper will have been through it with a toothcomb . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I 've got broad shoulders and I 've been through it as a player . |
| 7 | They 're in it for the love of the game . |
| 8 | Er they are n't but they I think they 're in it on the canvas . |
| 9 | And while you 're at it with the bin get yourself a tissue as well , to wipe your nose . |
| 10 | ‘ But she could never have been like me with an audience . ’ |
| 11 | One mate had been into it for a while 'cos he used to go away to sea . |
| 12 | Get those who are with you on the mat to sit down so that the emergency services have a clear view across the area and can move quickly in the event of accident . |
| 13 | Thirdly , it involved saying that ‘ the general principles of the constitution ( as for example the right to personal liberty , or the right of public meeting ) are with us as the result of judicial decisions determining the rights of private persons in particular cases brought before the courts ’ . |
| 14 | The ‘ Minister of the Crown ’ role was hung on little Colin Moynihan for a day or two while everyone tried not to laugh ; he was , after all , only just over five foot tall and Minister for Sport and he had , after all , not slept with Pamella , only been with her at the Winter Ball . |
| 15 | Lord Archer and Lord Healey , both in Santa Claus outfits , had been with her at an event in honour of Headway , the National Head Injuries Association . |
| 16 | The old man had been with her in the shop that morning , the same as ever , gossiping about the business , about the vagaries of their customers , the oddities of town councillors and the perverseness of families — all with a humour that was wickedly spiced . |
| 17 | How strict Tata had always been with me as a child ; even taken the strap to me on a couple of occasions , once for pinching ‘ fress ’ , or buns as Mother called them , behind his back — he did n't mind how much I took from the shop as long as I asked — and once for saying ‘ Damn ’ when I cut my finger peeling an apple . |
| 18 | ‘ I knew my mum because she 'd been with me at the hospital and I remembered my grandad because of his bald head . |
| 19 | Today , too ; how I wished you had been with me at the concert . |
| 20 | In early January 1988 about a dozen friends and colleagues , the same people who had been with me on the day John was kidnapped , met at my flat . |
| 21 | I went out and found in the court two corpses interlocked ; they were the bodies of the two young men who had before been with me in the room ... |
| 22 | Prince , he said , ‘ has been with me from the commencement of my various works . |
| 23 | Macmillan then flew back to Treviso to drop off the various Eighth Army officers who had been with him at the conference , had " a short chat " with Gen McCreery , and returned with Philip Broad to Caserta . |
| 24 | Atkins and the other man who had been with him during the doorstep confrontation on Boxing Night were waiting . |
| 25 | Burton wrote , with typical flaring generosity ( like his fellow Welshman , Henry VII , he never forgot those who had been with him around the campfire when the crown was hardly even a dream in unreal England ) : |
| 26 | In Tolkien , by huge contrast , he met a man whose style had been with him from the beginning . |
| 27 | But his fascination with motion , the ‘ gate of natural philosophy ’ , had probably been with him from the beginning of that decade . |
| 28 | She 'd been with us for a year when we went for a day 's walk in the country . |
| 29 | erm certainly numerically controlled machine tools , they 've been with us for a number of years now and there 's no doubt about it that micro-electronics is having an influence , or advances in micro-electronics are having a way in which they are implemented , but I feel applications of that type it requires quite a large amount of flexibility in being able to program it to set up one machine , program it differently to set up another machine , say , or to produce one component and another component and so on , so that I think there one is thinking and looking at a more sophisticated type of computer than , say , a simple microcomputer that we 've been talking about earlier . |
| 30 | ‘ I further assert that these spores have been with us since the birth of mankind . |