Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [prep] be [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I came to be with my husband . |
| 2 | Lochinver was a magnet , largely because of the strange mountains I knew to be in its vicinity , and I longed to go there . |
| 3 | Now I had to be on my guard against AIDS and the Devil . |
| 4 | I had to be at his beck and call , night and day . |
| 5 | I had to be at his side as he opened his eyes and saw me there in my lonely vigil … |
| 6 | My eyes filled up with water , I did n't want to stay there I wanted to be with my mum . |
| 7 | If I was in a bad mood or something and I wanted to be on my own it would be , ‘ Ah , have you had an argument with the girlfriend ? |
| 8 | ‘ I wanted to be on my own . ’ |
| 9 | He turned to Sally-Anne who was clinging to his arm , and said , ‘ I know a small chop-house near here , and when you have eaten you may tell me what happened , and how you came to be on your own , under attack . ’ |
| 10 | She happened to be in her uniform . |
| 11 | She needed to be on her own . |
| 12 | She needed to be on her own . |
| 13 | Within seconds she was confronted by a tall man whom she took to be in his late forties , but who , she guessed , could n't be quite that if he was Rosie 's brother . |
| 14 | She preferred to be on her own in a kitchen . |
| 15 | She had to be at her most persuasive before being allowed to send the tempramental and accident-prone filly over timber . |
| 16 | Since she was the same age as Julius , she had to be in her mid-thirties , but her skin was smooth and unlined . |
| 17 | You had to be on your deathbed before someone would come and see you . |
| 18 | Without his so much as kissing her , a raging desire had seized her , and she longed to be in his arms , in his bed , in his heart . |
| 19 | Philip knew that she was irritated by his being there , that she wanted to be on her own . |
| 20 | Whoever it was might just break in and , if they did , she wanted to be on her feet to face them . |
| 21 | But , now and then , she wanted to be at his side when his mind was still and there was nothing there but the sweetness within the forbidding exterior ; and the love . |
| 22 | At first she told him that she wanted to be near her cousin Freddy , in the Engineers . |
| 23 | So this last time she wanted to be in her office , correct and professional at the right time . |
| 24 | ( When you were young , do you remember whether you wanted to be like your mother ? ) |
| 25 | " When we were boys , we wanted to be like our fathers . |
| 26 | The murder followed a protest by the Truka community against a local landowner who had enclosed land they believed to be within their territory . |
| 27 | Long acquaintance with the clergy had convinced him that priests could not tell one layman from the next if they happened to be on their own administrative staff . |
| 28 | They looked to be on their way out , however , when the sparkling Ryan Giggs rewarded Manchester 's early supremacy with a cracking goal on the half hour from Brian McClair 's pass . |
| 29 | Even in Palestine Karlinsky had n't tried to hide it — they had to be on their guard . |
| 30 | Er if they wanted to be on their roller skates or even on their bikes , then they were sort of going around the walkways . |