Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [adv prt] in [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | Next time I 'm down in Surrey I shall have to have words with my mother . |
2 | The last time I was up in Wharfedale it was with a London friend , a media man whose idea of the wide open spaces is Wimbledon Common . |
3 | Oh if I was up in Yorkshire I would . |
4 | I tell you , if she was out in Hollywood they would send her to one of those beauty farms , where they starve them and batter them about and knock them into shape ; then they would give her a plastic nose , or make the one she 's got more pointed , put false eyelashes on her , give her hair an expert cut , and walla ! she 'd be a sensation . |
5 | That was the stuff of melodrama , and now she was back in Oxford she knew she was somewhere , somehow , still too middle-class , too much her father 's daughter , to want that . |
6 | Now she says she 's worried that once they 're back in America she 'll never get them home again . |
7 | If Kirsty had fallen ill once they were down in London she would have been forced to stay there until she 'd recovered — and then she would have been in serious trouble , not only with Jake but with the law as well . |
8 | It was back in February I saw you is n't it ? |
9 | Immediately he was back in England he longed to seek her out , but his acquaintance with the Bradfords prohibited it . |
10 | The young man waited for Carter 's return to prison life , knowing that once he was back in control there would be a suitably messy reply . |