Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] be [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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1 | If I were back at the A squared , I squared is minus one , so I 've got minus three squared , there 's two give me by I Equals minus thirty nine , now because those two complex numbers are the same are the same , so sixteen is E S squared minus three square , the imaginary grids are also the same , so minus thirty equals two , eight B. |
2 | I 'd been to thirteen convents but I had n't really been to school properly because I was working by the time I was thirteen . |
3 | I 'd been on one of these trips before and the weather had been brilliant . |
4 | After I 'd been in three years , I got married . |
5 | ‘ But he seemed genuinely interested , particularly when I told him I 'd been round one of the stations on a Come & See tour . |
6 | I remember being in one time , with both ends in , like I were talking about , and we have n't got a road out , we Matter of fact we were trying to break through to another district . |
7 | The piece I did is on one side , and on the other is a piece by The Kronos Quartet , called Different Trains . ’ |
8 | An example I quote is of two particular members of staff who had been there a long time , and so , when I walked into the staff room , they were in the same seats . |
9 | I had been on one of these camps before so I thought that I knew what to expect . |
10 | and I put them in , and I look in my dictionary , they 're not there of course , cos my dictionary I had is from nineteen forty six |
11 | No no I 've been on one and they do do it properly . |
12 | I , I do n't know how they get there but they know how our army works , we know how their army works , we can not hide manoeuvre 's and every army in the world knows the manoeuvre 's I 've been on one big NATO manoeuvre out in Germany right , and you 're saying to me they do n't know how I , how each army works |
13 | I 've been on one of those |
14 | Erm I like doing water colour painting and I 've been on two holidays down in Cornwall and I 've done that and that 's very relaxing erm and it seems , you seem to forget about everything else , and that 's quite good fun er but erm obviously if it rains all your , all your colours get washed away , but that 's good fun . |
15 | ‘ I 've been on 10 or 11 tours in my career and it 's time that I spent a little while with my family . |
16 | ‘ I 've been to fifteen funerals of my friends this year . |
17 | I 've been to one |
18 | I think I think I 've been to one or two in York . |
19 | Well , I , I , I mean I 've been to one , to a meeting , they had in Manchester a few years ago , Irene 's been to some . |
20 | Well I , obviously want to try and attend meetings if and when possible , er I 've been to one last week , which basically was er because I do n't feel I 'm qualified to get up and David got up and spoke very well actually , he was always , at the police not neighbourhood watch , er to do with the cascade telephone system which we found out afterwards , after a three quarters hour debate a man came up to Dave afterwards and showed him a memo which said this cascade system has now ceased in November nineteen ninety-two and that was the the abuse on that particular meeting . |
21 | ‘ I 've been to two before , Daddy . |
22 | I bet I 've been to more schools than Australia , I 've been to four schools in Australia |
23 | I 've been to eight countries in the last two weeks . |
24 | Yes Chairer , why do n't we pat ourselves on our , on the back about this it would it be useful i in in the the report , a further report that 's gon na come forward if there could be some indication as to actual format that was adopted when a person goes to one of his welfare panels , cos I 've been to three and there does n't seem to be any consistency whatsoever in the way that things occur or whatever ! |
25 | amazed I actually did erm what happened erm I was happened to be upstairs and my wife shouted quick quick there 's a zither , so I zoomed down here and the lady was still talking to you and a dialled well consequently I did n't get through for quite some time but I did eventually , erm your lady on the reception said well it 's gone now she said but I will give the lady 's telephone number and I spoke to the lady and told her the position and she says well if it 's not collected by so time I 'll g ring you back and I said well I 've been after one for a long long time she said well I ca n't understand it cos I 've been advertising it . |
26 | Well I 've been in eighteen below zero |
27 | Oh yeah I 've been in one of them . |
28 | I 've been in one of the houses , that 's how I know it was big , before it was done up . |
29 | I 've been in one of these . |
30 | I 've been in two minds about whether to bother with the ABA this year , but the news that Baroness Thatcher and Margaret Atwood are to share a platform at a Book and Author Breakfast has made my mind up for me . |