Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] [vb infin] be [prep] it " in BNC.
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1 | I 'd have been in it and in those bars in Gibraltar giving it the big lips by last night . ’ |
2 | ‘ It 's got its attractions , but you should have been in it last night . ’ |
3 | That 's why you might have been on it you see . |
4 | Witness the serried ranks of highly paid company chairmen who maintain , in the face of incontrovertible evidence to the contrary , that the Eighties enriched us , that we are immeasurably better off as a result of the Thatcher experiment than we would have been without it . |
5 | Most of them do it , he must have been at it quite a bit . |
6 | Some would say it would have been worth it if only to gain some insight into the arcane workings of SCOTVEC . |
7 | Which would have been very attractive , unobtrusive and none of us would have been against it , and when they came to put in the application to convert it , making it a meter wider and turn that into an extra bedroom or whatever was , we said that there was no parking , and we said what would happen and East Devon went ahead and approved that , and exactly in everything we 've said which was recorded in this council |