Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] be in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It seems to me I 'm in the right place , ’ she said . |
| 2 | ‘ Sir , I have made you an honourable proposal for the hand of your daughter , whom I am in a position to support now and , later , in increased comfort — ’ |
| 3 | Well not even I could heard them I was in the second row . |
| 4 | Well I du n no whether I I 'm in a position to comment on that you know you 'll have to ask them about that whether you know we 've all learnt from each other really . |
| 5 | Well I I was in the east end and of course where my mum and my aunt worked it was mostly sort of cleaning and scrubbing and charring and turning mangles in the back garden and all sorts of things . |
| 6 | Bereavement is the one battle in which people dice with a death that has already occurred in order to survive all the dangers of the loss and deprivation it brings , and it takes courage to stand shoulder to shoulder with someone who is in the thick of it . |
| 7 | I suppose what it really amounts to , it 's probably someone who 's in the same line of business and they 're trying to get the best way are n't they ? |
| 8 | He laid each book out neatly on the benches , his new boots echoing and reverberating noisily around him , but the vicar made no comment and carried on talking quite loudly , for someone who was in a church . |
| 9 | He said someone who was in the area last Friday night or in the early hours of Saturday must have seen the two attackers . |
| 10 | He said someone who was in the area last Friday night or early on Saturday must have seen the two attackers . |
| 11 | No I they 're in the archive |
| 12 | What should then happen would depend upon a number of considerations upon which I am in no position to speculate or express a view . |
| 13 | Wh while while you 're erm doing that while you 're th while we 're thinking about that , erm there 's something else on the schools front and the promotional front which which I am in the process of setting up . |
| 14 | and then you satin stitch all over that , which I 'm in the process of doing . |
| 15 | The following memorandum was presented by Vial , and read by the secretary : ‘ When the Members of the Veterinary College were occupied by objects to which I was in no wise competent I was absolutely silent — but now that it is a question to chuse [ sic ] a convenient situation for the establishment of the College , I think it a duty incumbent on me to give my advice on this important point . |
| 16 | That 's very similar to the straightforward hypothermia that you 'd might find in an old person or somebody who 's in a , in a snowy field all night , have you all got that ? |
| 17 | ‘ I think you 'd have to look at somebody who is in a similar position to him , who is still around , to try and figure that out . |
| 18 | But occasionally well not occasionally but quite often , at least once or twice a week , you 'd hear of somebody who is in the thieving business , they 'd got something for sale and you could get that quite cheap . |
| 19 | We know that there are more of goods wagons which we are in the process of securing . |
| 20 | Bands and their managers tend to have periods of relative quiet , maybe for six months , after which they are in a fever of activity . |
| 21 | Officials and administrators can not divest themselves of all ideological clothing in the advice which they tender to their political masters , or in the independent decisions which they are in a position to take . |
| 22 | When Dick 's lads are down to seven and a half hours which they are in the erm summertime , I mean we s the lads 'll come in I mean we ca n't pull them off now , but those lads 'll come in and clean up . |
| 23 | The US ambassador , who had marvelled at the readiness of the British to hazard so much in company with France ( a nation which they were in the habit of disparaging ) , now saw that this had been no more than a passing flirtation . |
| 24 | Tolstoy attaches great importance to the change of wording in the signal of 23 May , referring to a " verbal directive " , as if this implied that on 13 May Macmillan had not just " advised " but had in effect given an order , which he was in no position to do . |
| 25 | He looked himself , yet older , different , an elder brother , his father , or else this future self which he was in the process of becoming . |
| 26 | Why did he always choose to lose his temper over issues in which he was in the wrong ? |
| 27 | His wife , Janie , whom he married in 1879 , abetted by her mother , persuaded him after three years of matrimony during which he was in the coasting trade , to settle permanently ashore , helping him to open , first a " cook-shop " and then a larger business in Sunderland which became known as " Wilson 's Temperance Hotel and Dining Rooms " . |
| 28 | Again , Aethelred was clearly much involved with a territory bordering on Mercia which he was in the process of bringing into closer dependence . |
| 29 | Once again , a sufferer is seen to be mad , and his fearful sense of what he is up to can be seen to dominate the book in which it is in the end defeated or controverted . |
| 30 | It is no good forcing every kind of ability into one form of education if the result is going to lower the standard which it is in the interests of the country to maintain . ’ |