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

No	Sentence
1	Well I was just I was just thinking , if you had a patterned paper and then you had you 're pattern in your
2	She was fishing in her reticule as she spoke , and from it she produced a handkerchief tied in a loose bundle .
3	We are creatures in whom good desires compete with evil desires , altruism struggles with selfishness .
4	We are voyagers in our own living madness .
5	‘ Can we help it if we 're putty in your hands ? ’
6	I suppose we 're nutters in our own way . ’
7	At FL090 we were IMC in what seemed to be an aspirant CB .
8	They are cases in which only one type of disposition is involved , but it is then misdescribed as the other .
9	They are cases in which a promise was made which was intended to create legal relations and which , to the knowledge of the person making the promise , was going to be acted on by the person to whom it was made , and which was in fact so acted on .
10	But they are problems in themselves .
11	That 's doubtless because originators Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick are writing about themselves and their friends : like Michael Steadman , who is at the centre of this universe , they are Jews in their mid-thirties married to non-Jews and with young children .
12	I have been there nearly ten years now , and they are years in which I have grown to learn a good deal more about the power of the Holy Spirit , his gifts , his humbling and breaking , and the glorious way in which he takes and transforms congregations and lives from every conceivable background once opened to him .
13	It is not clear whether they are issues in which Marx was ever really involved ; if he had been , then it would seem likely that they would have played a more important role in his later work .
14	They are novels in which the main characters debate topical social and economic issues as well as fall in and out of love , marry and have children , pursue careers , make or lose their fortunes , and do all the other things that characters do in more conventional novels .
15	They are children in their love of pictures and music .
16	They are utterances in which saying the words and doing the action are the same thing : the function is created by the form .
17	They 're the They 're the head ones and they 're place in you 're sort of in charge .
18	One famous example of this was when he asked students to pretend that they were boarders in their own homes , and to behave accordingly .
19	Until 1958 , females , even though they were peeresses in their own right , were not admitted .
20	Though antislavery petitioning was a very prominent element of parliamentary petitioning in the years mentioned above , they were years in which petitioning as a habit grew remarkably .
21	All the girls I used were n't bimbo model types — they were people in their own right .
22	economically it 's changes in it .
23	It 's peace in our time , as Chamberlain said … ‘
24	exactly the same with socks , the blend of wool or nylon , er , just pure wool or nylon or whatever whether it 's cotton in it , all these things type of shirts and that , the strengths of the cloths feeling it , telling you that 'll wash well that 'll last
25	They give nothing away , and it 's Jensen in his rock-solid role as ball-winner and organiser who is providing a base for the ones in front of him to play .
26	It 's Ally in who 's got a really big one .
27	It 's pains in her stomach .
28	But if it is work in which we can join , the question needs to be asked : will we respond decisively ?
29	It is faith in our nation that has made us little people great , that has made us poor people rich , that has made us wavering , fearful , timid people brave and confident , that has made us erring wanderers clear-sighted and has brought us together !
30	At best , any reading of line A is bound to be provisional ; the precise sense of the " grass " image that it is grass in its aspect of impermanence ( absence of ) awaits a reading of line B.