Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [prep] those " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not all the congratulatory letters were complimentary , but I 'm just as grateful to those who took me to task or argued with me or lectured me as I am to those who gave me a kind pat . |
| 2 | ‘ I must say , ’ answered the pregnant girl , ‘ that I had never expected to be as tired by anything as I was during those awful nights in the Blitz when sleep seemed something one would never have again — but this is worse ! ’ |
| 3 | I wish I was in those bars tonight . ’ |
| 4 | How frightened of dying I was in those first days . |
| 5 | While the war continued I could ( almost ) fool myself into believing that I was like those other women who were merely separated from their men ‘ for the duration ’ — or , if not that , at least I felt that my life was suspended . |
| 6 | Now these counting numbers they 're okay are n't they you know where you are with those no problem . |
| 7 | Know where you are with those . |
| 8 | Demoralising as the threat of redundancy may be , therefore , all is not necessarily lost even when you are told that you are among those who will have to leave . |
| 9 | This is all very well if you 're into those book-type things . |
| 10 | His debut collection had brilliant crisp white shirts , beautiful eveningwear ( if you 're in those crucial cocktail circles ) and denim that was a little suspect . |
| 11 | ‘ You 're in those pictures too . ’ |
| 12 | One is the actual career breaks that happen for any woman , unless she is in a very highly paid job , where she can afford child care of her own , or unless she 's in those very few jobs in this country which actually erm are with employees who are responsible enough to either provide their own child care , or to allow women those sorts of career breaks in order to bring up children . |
| 13 | If however a special diet has been recommended by the doctor , you should of course see that it is possible for her to adhere strictly to this , and if she is amongst those who enjoy various products from Health Food shops she should not be criticised for having fads . |
| 14 | When she was inside those beautiful old walls , no one knew where she was . |
| 15 | ‘ Maybe we 're behind those Titans . ’ |
| 16 | We were like those skeletons still embracing in the dust of their vanished flesh and dead desires . |
| 17 | Since the node-link-node triples are not as meaningful to readers as they are to those who made the semantic net , the author may place any phrase in the margin . |
| 18 | While a radical feminist like Millett can argue that ‘ male and female are really two cultures , and their life experiences are utterly different ’ , Marxist feminists would argue that the life experiences of middle-class women are much closer to those of middle-class men than they are to those of working-class women . |
| 19 | All such sources of conflict are familiar to those in the public sector as much as they are to those in the private . |
| 20 | Secondly , we must recall that the mental conflicts which I am identifying as the origins of human society and civilized behaviour — essentially those portrayed in the story of Oedipus — were as intensely painful and unpleasurable to those who experienced them then as they are to those who experience them in our own times . |
| 21 | Tight quotas are also imposed on Hungary 's steel and textile exports , as they are upon those of the other Višegrad states . |
| 22 | They 're for those upper-class twits who turn up halfway through seminars and who never bother to get their essays in on time . |
| 23 | No it 's not , those erm they 're like those leggings it 's |
| 24 | They 're in those trees up there . |
| 25 | Staffing ratios were generally better in grammar schools than elsewhere , and even the Burnham system favoured ( as it was meant to do ) schools with a larger proportion of older pupils , especially if they were in those sixth forms which continued to stand at the peak of a meritocratic secondary system . |
| 26 | The people of the parish remain as close-knit as they were in those early days . |
| 27 | Erm from there we went into this purpose built flat above a grocers shop , it was meant for the manager of the grocers shop , but he had better sense and so the flat became available for letting to the Borough Council who at the insistence of the owners of the house we were in , erm , were anxious to get their property back and so we found ourselves in a brand new flat , the first tenants , although this was not very highly to be recommended , you approached your flat up er stone staircase , er from the outside so you exposed to the elements er you then walked across the roof , flat roof over the shops until you came to your flat door , erm , Islington at that time was just beginning the , to see the influx of immigrants from the colonies as they were in those days and er , they in turn created much heavier demand on what little vacant property there was , so that the district rapidly deteriorated and for many people who were not in the fortunate position that we were found it necessary or desirable to leave because they were sharing rooms or sharing houses with people whose ways of life were different from theirs and this is something I think that housing authorities learnt to appreciate over the years that the differences between people 's ways of life are one of the major causes of social distress . |
| 28 | ‘ One day we went for a walk in woods to the north of London near Barnet , I think , I no longer recall the name , except that they were in those days very pretty and lonely woods for a place so near London . |
| 29 | You know , people And I did n't , well you were suppose Well we did mark the book at perhaps a p a pound to a book you know , like they were in those days . |
| 30 | Yes , I , I was actually just saying to my wife last night , erm , who would have ever thought that in the same year , we could have lost two of the greatest wing-halves , as they were in those days , but I suppose mid-field players they 'd be known as today , who 'd |