Example sentences of "[adj] be [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Who can they turn to if the native landowners and the French are against them ? " |
| 2 | It is quite true that the Americans were at least as worried about the British as the British were about them , but for very different reasons . |
| 3 | The Lord Almighty is with us |
| 4 | On one of the brick piers was inscribed the words , ‘ The poor are with ye always ’ . |
| 5 | Over a grand 's worth you 're looking at here , and you know how much it cost me ? |
| 6 | And then you see they when the crafty was by they used to set out the next day , some maybe taken for the West Mainland and some taken for and some were . |
| 7 | The pedlar was behind her . |
| 8 | ‘ The only need I have where you 're concerned is for you to leave me alone , Luke — ’ She froze momentarily as he lifted a hand , passing light fingers over the bright satiny curls at one side of her head . |
| 9 | What 's important is for you two to get matters straight between you — ’ |
| 10 | After snarling a few choice remarks at them from the corners of our mouths , such as , ‘ Get lost ! ’ or ‘ Beat it ! ’ , which we understood to be good American for , ‘ Please go away , we do not wish for company , ’ we managed to rid ourselves of a few of them , but two of the most persistent followed us until we were clear of the town , and then we realised that the only way to be left alone was for us to be really rude . |
| 11 | No ultimate was in it was n't it ? |
| 12 | It 's not achievable for me , cos achievable is for you as a trainer Realistic ? |
| 13 | If you 've got permed hair or have been inspired by Making Waves on Page 8 , then this great give-away is for you ! |
| 14 | I could , I could go and I could go and take if there 's , you know , if they have n't , no nothing awful 's to them I could go and take some pics of those . |
| 15 | ‘ How we came out of that alive is beyond me . |
| 16 | Right the rationale is that the degree of parental investment and its effect on the offspring vary with the offspring 's age , and as says , one of the fundamental erm , principles of this is that the , by and large the younger the offspring the more valuable any unit of parental is to it , and the more efficacious it is , and the most obvious example of that would be food . |
| 17 | If you would like to continue working , arguably the easiest solution if your employer is agreeable is for you to remain where you are and to defer your pension . |
| 18 | How she had survived a nurse 's training and remained shy was beyond me , but the fact remained she had . |