Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [adj] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 We 're about due for one — I might bring you in on it . ’
2 Er they 're about halfway in their own league , erm I think they beat by the odd goal the team that we beat four two here .
3 So have you , have you have you now persuaded yourself that perhaps you 're over optimistic about I mean cos you were suggesting that attitudes had changed
4 ‘ I should n't need to do that , but the situation we are in called for it . ’
5 For those who like to know these things the Italians are in blue with their black stripe on the jersey and er black shorts , and very smart looking team they are .
6 In the main , larval control would have to be near perfect in its efficiency and to allow very few adults to survive .
7 Marcus Armytage who won on Mr Frisk is their jockey , but one woman , the only woman who will be in thick of it , is Judy Davies .
8 He is not be to confused with our human parents , as Freud and others have neurotically identified him .
9 In his sixth and final campaign speech on March 13 , in the town of Cottbus , north-east of Dresden , Kohl declared : " We want savers to know that when the change in currency comes it will be at one-to-one for them .
10 Fit a new timing belt drive as it is about due for one , set accurately and the problem will hopefully disappear .
11 For many years I , along with everyone else who takes an interest in jazz both here and further afield , have read and respected the forthright and honest views of a jazz critic who is without equal in our community .
12 ‘ I know how much we have already put in up to the end of 1992 and I know what we could be asked for for 1993 , ’ Longuet said , but the size of the sums is to embarrassing for him to reveal them — but he did say they were incompatible with what the European Commission would allow and what French taxpayers wanted .
13 Revolutionary theories may be accepted or discarded , but least cognisance is at taken of them and of what preceded them .
14 There 'd been a repeat of the sensational reports about Waite — he 'd died of a heart attack in an Iranian prison camp and his body returned to Beirut , or the island of Cyprus was on alert for his imminent release — and a three-day series on all the hostages in the Independent , but there was still no questioning of government policy nor a proper analysis of what was really happening .
15 Everybody yes the name , your name was on written on it you see .
16 But Roger 's younger brother Edmund , twenty-six years old , high-spirited and impetuous , was at large about his border lordships , and very much inclined to resent the incursions of his Welsh neighbours .
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