Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [prep] [be] in " in BNC.

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1 I ca n't tell you how thrilled I am to be in closer contact with Medau again .
2 In the years that followed I was to be in that lovely apartment many times visiting Jessica and Celia , who served the most delicious toasted bacon sandwiches and coffee that I have ever tasted .
3 Just on a year ago , as I was to be in London at the time of the World Cup , I made enquiries about obtaining tickets to attend some of the Cup matches in the United Kingdom .
4 Look , ’ he said , ‘ you are to be in France by the beginning of December .
5 She says she 's to be in Leningrad for a day or two — she 's on location at Lake Baikal — to meet Mrs Reagan on her flying visit to the Hermitage .
6 She was to be in bed for three days at the doctor 's insistence and she never even saw Alain .
7 Still , it was true in the main , so for the few weeks she was to be in Venice she would take the greatest care to have as little to do with him as possible .
8 ‘ How lucky we are to be in a band and not having to get up every morning to do a crappy job .
9 ‘ How lucky we are to be in a band and not having to get up every morning to do a crappy job .
10 The infant churches experienced from the synagogues persecution which , when full grown , they were to be in a position to return .
11 The controversy which surrounded these events , and which periodically exercised the District Executive and enlivened the District Council , took place at a time when tutor-organisers were less established figures than they were to be in the 1960s and 1970s .
12 It has been suggested that literacy levels in these weaving villages were higher than they were to be in the industrial towns of south Lancashire a generation later .
13 Unless you have a very small conference of less than a hundred people avoid low ceilings ; it 's like being in a crowded rail commuter carriage and everyone feels oppressed and claustrophobic .
14 It 's like being in Top Gun .
15 It 's like being in an aeroplane with the pressure building up on your ears .
16 It 's like being in a permanent opera !
17 ‘ Gee , it 's like being in a waiting room , the doctor will see you now . ’
18 One woman compared it to her experience of being in service in the past : ‘ It 's like being in service .
19 It 's like being in a Western .
20 And it 's con the temperature is constant , it 's like being in an incubator .
21 It 's like being in a different world , ’ she keeps saying .
22 It 's like being in a different world . ’
23 It 's like being in a house where you used to live , but you ca n't quite remember its danger points .
24 It 's like being in a city and being besieged .
25 Sarah says it 's like being in the condemned cell and being let out .
26 ‘ It 's particularly fun when all the actors come in dressed up in costume — it 's like being in some surreal painting . ’
27 It 's like being in a cathedral , ’ she said in a hushed voice .
28 It 's like being in Switzerland , you pay your brother 's !
29 It 's like being in the woods is n't it ?
30 It 's like being in a play-group , in n it ?
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