Example sentences of "[pron] [be] in [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Told ya , I know when I were in hospital I had that stuff on me you know it were terrible even though it was |
| 2 | Now , although the idea that whenever we see that someone is in pain we make an inference from behaviour to feeling is about as mythical as the idea that at some time in the past we made a Social Contract , the ‘ argument from analogy ’ line of reasoning seems much less implausible here than in the ‘ Afternoon on the Sun ’ case . |
| 3 | ‘ When I was in Dinosaur I never though I had any real talent . |
| 4 | He said I remembered last night he said if I was in bed I was gon na get wet . |
| 5 | But a spokeswoman for the Howard League for Penal Reform fumed : ‘ If I was in jail I would n't want people paying money to come and look at me as if I was in a zoo . ’ |
| 6 | and whilst , when I was in hospital I always had that feeling that I 'd love to hear the water lapping on a beach , you know and |
| 7 | Er if I was in power I 'd put a tax on every child after two I would have taxed you out of existence Ellen . |
| 8 | As soon as they knew I was in prison they were trying to get involved and everything . |
| 9 | When I was in prison I used to grip my fingers and bite my tongue and think , ‘ Right , do n't do anything . ’ |
| 10 | Whilst I was in prison I only saw my daughter twice . |
| 11 | When I was in prison I was n't hard to start with , but I soon got that way . |
| 12 | When I was in prison I learnt many things about cheques and cards . |
| 13 | Although I was in pain I was conscious and can remember seeing Callanish itself . |
| 14 | Now on the face of that that that that 's seems fairly sensible , y'know if somebody is in need we ought to be doing something about it . |
| 15 | ‘ Next time you are in distress I will know to leave you to it . |
| 16 | Why do you have to pay , it is a for students ' union , if , if , if you 're in work you do n't have to belong to a union ? |
| 17 | Yes when you 're in bed it Ann phoned to say to say that she 's bringing and Ali around to play with you tomorrow afternoon . |
| 18 | When you 're in bed I 'll bring up a hot drink . ’ |
| 19 | If you 're in Error you are one step away from the thumbscrews . |
| 20 | Now that you 're in trouble I want to help you , you 've got children , I 've got children , I know what the position is , tell me what you got into and see if I can help you out . |
| 21 | If you 're in politics you have to cope with two sorts of people , the ones you can use , and the ones who want to use you . |
| 22 | When you were in love you only thought of yourself and your love ; Ruth knew that well enough . |
| 23 | And when I asked yo and when I said to her , you were in toilet she got up and she ran across there ! |
| 24 | It erm well I du n no cos if you were in bingo they would say the bingo bus goes at |
| 25 | So when he heard you were in town he hit on a plan to get rid of both of you . |
| 26 | ‘ If you were in danger I would have told you , ’ he went on . |
| 27 | It maybe still the same now , erm because right up to the time I erm retired we , we had on occasions to pay for the residual value of a tyre , perhaps a bus had been in accident and the tyre had suffered damage which it was n't possible to repair it or retread it , perhaps a hole had been pierced through the wall , they scrapped that tyre and we had to pay for the residual value , mind you being in accident we could then claim it off the insurance company but , so right up to the time I retired that 's how tyres were paid for . |
| 28 | ‘ Yes , but the telephone is downstairs and if she 's in bed she would have to get out to answer it . |
| 29 | Mind you it makes you wonder whether the democracy itself is in trouble you know |
| 30 | A few familiar miles rolled by before she was in territory she did not recognize . |