Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] be in [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " I 'm afraid I 'm in something of a hurry but I was just passing and thought I would call in on the off-chance . |
| 2 | For each one I 'd like you to tell me how interested you are in it by choosing an answer from card twenty four . |
| 3 | For example , if one has found out something about a course , about what 's happening on it , how well the pupils are learning , how interested they are in it and what different members of staff think of its value and so on , then you 've got a certain amount of evidence about it . |
| 4 | How different he was in his least gestures , even to his way of shaking your hand ’ . |
| 5 | I wonder if you do n't realise how much I am in your power without that . ’ |
| 6 | The great trans-shipment complex for the riches mined from the valleys at Morwellham , near Tavistock in Devon , is now a far cry from its original form , while Coalbrookdale , despite gallant work on it , is quite unlike it was in its heyday . |
| 7 | It depends first on what you 've been doing in those 29 years , whether you 're willing to get new skills if necessary , and finally , how persistent you are in your job search . |
| 8 | Did they suspect how mixed-up she was in her feelings for Robert ? |
| 9 | But it quickly became obvious I was in it too . |
| 10 | His will is an eloquent testimony of how conventional he was in his views — requiring Requiem Masses and prayers in perpetual memory of himself and of his family — and of how little he foresaw ( for how could he ? ) the changes which were to affect the church — and his bequests — during the next century with the coming of the Reformation . |
| 11 | erm , it 's how confident you are in yourself and the way that you actually put your point across . |
| 12 | You do n't have to be aggressive to be assertive , look at some of these comments we 've got here how confident you are in yourself and how you put your point across . |
| 13 | Both may be statements of truth , but they are bad statements because they can make an elderly person feel how unimportant she is in your life , even though you may not mean to convey this . |
| 14 | However hard it is , however cosy you are in your chair , you must just say , ‘ I 'm going to stretch my legs ’ or ‘ I 'm going to walk down the passage just to show that I can do it ! . ’ |
| 15 | Well first of all , first of all you 're in you 're |
| 16 | And was rose red , and all you are in me — was |
| 17 | I remember how helpful you were in our own cases . ’ |
| 18 | When you talk of anglers of this calibre it is hard to emphasise just how brilliant they were in their prime . |
| 19 | However sluggish it was in its domestic investment , US business did respond to the possibilities for profitable investment in Europe by a wave of overseas investment . |
| 20 | I 'm sure it 's in her house . ’ |
| 21 | It 's always kept in here , you see , unless it 's in the lock , but if I 'm out of doors you can be sure it 's in my bag . ’ |
| 22 | The blue and silver glow of the vision had pushed him out of her consciousness , but now she saw him she had to admit how very handsome and grand he was in his mitre and robes . |
| 23 | The problem raised by this theoretical paradox was of significance not only for these particular instances , however important they were in themselves ; it was in fact a challenge to the whole theoretical edifice which Marx and Engels were constructing . |
| 24 | It is within this conceptual framework that a government minister at the Department of the Environment can , with seemingly irrefutable common sense , conceptualise inner cities as the places where ‘ those living there have not been able to participate in the economic miracle of the Thatcher years ’ ( Trippier , 1989 , p7 ) and which require a strong police presence because ‘ the future prosperity of the inner cities depends directly on how safe they are in which to live and work ’ ( ibid , p22 ) . |
| 25 | In 1987 she was in her early forties . |
| 26 | Out of all the many hundreds of 16th- and 17th-century wills that I have studied , his is the only one to include a reference to its writer 's age : its intimation that on 15 November 1622 he was in his 80th year allows 1992 or 1993 to be marked as the 450th anniversary of his birth . |
| 27 | It took a long time , but at last you were in my arms , James , my son . |
| 28 | However secure he is in his own ability , the champion is upset by the most persistent accusation , that he 's never fought a genuine heavyweight . |
| 29 | He smiled at the ease of it ; one minute the fish was dying , the next it was in its element . |
| 30 | Here 's Tony coming for his gustatio , how handsome he is in his reconstructed hat . |