Example sentences of "[vb infin] be in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On occasion , however , Alexandra would sometimes get her way and drag the Prince to services at the church she favoured , St. Saviour 's Church for the Deaf in Oxford Street , where she could enjoy being in the company of other deaf people , and be able to follow the services , as she was a fluent fingerspeller . |
| 2 | He did n't like being in a position of ignorance on any subject , and started probing . |
| 3 | Do you like being in the bath with your father ? |
| 4 | At her parents home in Parkgate , The Grange , she said : ‘ I do n't intend to start smoking and I do n't like being in the company of people who smoke , especially when we are on holiday abroad and people smoke at the table . ’ |
| 5 | and this woman , she 's ninety odd and she does n't like being in the room on her own so when she goes to bed mum goes with her . |
| 6 | I can remember being in a cell , locked in , with nobody else but myself , crying , and a screw opening the hatch on the door and saying , ‘ What 's the matter with you ? |
| 7 | Er , only four can remember being in a church . |
| 8 | I can remember being in the back of a car and I was screaming . |
| 9 | ‘ Do n't you mind being in a Church that does n't believe in God ? ’ asked Betty . |
| 10 | ‘ That is , if you do n't mind being in the same room as me for a few minutes ? ’ |
| 11 | Should he achieve it , he would n't mind being in the British team at Victoria , in Canada , next year . |
| 12 | We would envisage being in a position to despatch the sales documentation by the end of four to six weeks . |
| 13 | WHERE difficulties can occur is in the matter of families . |
| 14 | And then erm mother of course , I can always remember was in the Guild and erm she would , the Guild in those days I 'm always telling the er people today , were very , very active women , very active erm and you 'd got them as councillors , magistrates erm come forward to all these positions . |
| 15 | The only light he could see was in the lobby , and the only person in the lobby was an anxious girl with a clipboard who was waiting to greet him personally , and who seemed personally grateful for his skill in getting himself found and driven there by the company 's chauffeur . |
| 16 | Another noise , a continuous whistle , very faint and high , she could n't decide was in the walls or in her ears . |
| 17 | In the present case the jury could have been in no doubt where the burden of proof lay . |
| 18 | Stalin is dead , and so since this summer is Andrei Gromyko , who as Deputy Foreign Minister at the time of the 1957 note , might have been in a position to provide some elucidation . |
| 19 | Their home was in London and Fanshawe must have been in a hurry . |
| 20 | He could have been in a hotel , had he not needed care and supervision which he blatantly did not get . |
| 21 | ‘ They helped him many a time to keep his head above water or else we should have been in a poor way . ’ |
| 22 | These galleries face North , and , as Ms E. Little explains in her book , Chronicles of Patterdale , they would have been in a good position beside the early road to attract the attention of the wool clothiers and their servants , the broggers , passing by on horseback in search of stock . |
| 23 | If someone was looking for The Bar in those days — because there was no name written up or sign for it , no lights at all , and not even a number on the door , Madame liked to keep it that way even when she did n't have to any more — I mean when she opened up we may all have been in a sort of hiding , and not many people knew about The Bar and our life there , but it was n't that way later , and now you know we can have lights and advertising and you see boys queueing up outside every night , very public , and I like to see that — but in those days , in those days if somebody arranged to meet you for a date there , and it was their first time and they were n't sure how to find us , you 'd joke with them , and you 'd say well first there is a wedding , and then there 's a death , and there 's the news , and then there 's us ; meaning , first there 's the shop with the flowers , the real ones , and next door to that is the undertaker 's with the fake flowers in the window , china , all dusty ; and then the newsagent 's and magazine shop , and then right next door to that is The Bar . |
| 24 | ‘ You must have been in a hurry to come out without your coat ; you 'll feel the chill afore the night 's out . ’ |
| 25 | I think she must have been in a state of shock . |
| 26 | On the other hand , it is conceivable that he would not have been in a position to appreciate the differences very clearly . |
| 27 | However he considered that Vial ‘ was a man of such good natural abilities that when his mind was at ease , he had so much application that his deficiencies , had he lived , might have been in a great measure made up ’ . |
| 28 | As for the House of Mattli , it might have been in a different world to the hostel , with its air of being a cross between a workhouse and a boarding school . |
| 29 | The house , their chamber , the food were arranged to perfection , and after the brutish clangour of Famagusta they should have been in a state of bewildered gratitude . |
| 30 | ‘ You must have been in a bad way . |