Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] be [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hate being on the Social . |
| 2 | Well I 'd been on the Menai Suspension Bridge before . |
| 3 | I remember that luncheon with Basil absolutely perfectly , and that I 'd been at the National Gallery or the Tate , and I had a postcard with me of one of those primitive paintings , naïve paintings , of a cricket match they still have postcards of it . |
| 4 | " If I 'd been in the political arena I 'd have shouted . |
| 5 | Ferguson senior added : ‘ All I ask is for the United fans to judge him on what he does on the pitch and not as the manager 's son . |
| 6 | She , Bambi , Nell and the Youngs made their way past me without looking at me and continued on along the corridor beside the kitchen , going to inspect the revised quarters which I knew were in the sleeping car forward of Filmer 's . |
| 7 | In particular the sharpened leading-notes ( a feature of some of his other editions ) are in this small space especially intrusive and seem stylistically odd , leading to a situation in the Credo where the plainchant itself has to be altered to accommodate the harmony , which I understood was against the commonly-accepted rules of musica ficta . |
| 8 | I love making , I love doing , I love being to the full , I love everything which is not sitting and watching and copying and dead at heart . |
| 9 | Something I wrote on Nov. 7th — ‘ I love being to the full , I love everything which is not sitting and watching . ’ |
| 10 | I 'll do this end as well I think be on the safe side . |
| 11 | The other piece of extra-curricular casting I did was of the young boy playing the grandson — ‘ voice like an angel ’ — Oliver . |
| 12 | Even if I had n't won a medal nor got enough promotion , I had been at the sharp end . |
| 13 | I was seated next to Professor St John Goth , as I had been on the previous night ; Dominic and Lee were opposite , and Mr and Mrs Maclean from Stirling were on my right . |
| 14 | As I had been on the medical side since he came back , this was the first time he had spoken to me , or probably seen me . |
| 15 | I had been in the armed forces long enough to know that you waited a long time for everything and I saw no reason why a dental appointment should be any different , |
| 16 | I said that I had been in the British Army which prompted another Englishman called Chris to ask if I had known anybody in the Royal Signals in Aldershot or Catterick . |
| 17 | It may be a consolation for them to know that I 've been at the receiving end myself . |
| 18 | I 've been on the other side of things often enough — guitar in hand , waiting for someone behind a mixing desk to give me the word to start playing — but they 'd never actually let me touch anything ! |
| 19 | I 've been on the other end I 've had people come sell it for to me . |
| 20 | ‘ I look as though I 've been on the wrong end of a Gestapo interrogation . |
| 21 | ‘ You 've been making a bloody exception in my case ever since I 've been on the corporate payroll ’ he yelled . |
| 22 | ‘ Where I 've been for the past 200 years or so , we count ourselves lucky if we still have one . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I took it up as a form of exercise in Germany , where I 've been for the past two years , ’ he said yesterday . |
| 24 | I 've been to the open-air theatre on the island every year since it opened , and I always tell people that you 've never really seen Shakespeare until you 've seen it on Brownsea . |
| 25 | aha and he says I 've been to the nice wee man he says he remembers ah going round all the houses looking for somebody to do in Apple Street and he went and told what 's his name ? |
| 26 | I 've been to the Royal and I know where I 'd sooner be . |
| 27 | I 've been to the natural childbirth classes in Muswell Hill , I 've sat on sag-bags and chanted ‘ Ommmmmm ’ with the best of them . |
| 28 | I 've been round the whole periphery of D thirty nine er other than the southern side . |
| 29 | ‘ Oh , I 've been inside the big house hundreds of times , ’ boasted Jackie . |
| 30 | ‘ For the past four weeks I 've been in the Middle East on business , and this place has been empty and locked up . ’ |