Example sentences of "be [adv prt] in [noun prp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You bastards have been over in France for the past three months , sitting in the sunshine and screwing all those French bints . ’ |
| 2 | Donal Lunny came down , and Gerry O'Beirne and Mary Custy and Eoin O'Neill , my sister Mary , and Adam Calyton , Mike Scott and Steve Wickham had been over in Spiddal at the time , working with John , so they came over for the crack . |
| 3 | If the Nepalese court decides that there is no case against the two men , they could be back in Britain by the end of the week . |
| 4 | But I expect to be back in Scotland within the next couple of weeks , so we can discuss whatever needs to be discussed then . |
| 5 | He seeks consistently to mislead the people of Scotland about the reality of what he and his Government have been about in Scotland in the past 12 to13 years . |
| 6 | I was down in Bath with the PM . |
| 7 | I was up in Oregon at the time and got back to find that the tremor had shoved the sewage pipes up a few inches and thrown the water out of the lavatories , a well-known portent of Satan 's arrival , if you believe the infernal guidebooks . |
| 8 | ‘ I was up in Oxford at the beginning of this week , ’ she said , as casually as she could . |
| 9 | ‘ But he was up in Summertown for the whole of that afternoon with friends — as we 've now checked . |