Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [prep] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My dear fellow , it is but seldom that one has the pleasure of meeting a friend from the old days in Petersburg , but I chanced to be in Vienna recently , and have heard much about you from mutual acquaintances . |
| 2 | This is the truth my lad and the first I made for was for the that , just off Canada , is is New Foundland ? |
| 3 | Her father died when she was two , and , after education at the Bar Convent in York , she was courted at fourteen by the thirty-five-year-old Joseph Radcliffe : ‘ poor , little me ! … like a bird in a cage , I fluttered to be at liberty . ’ |
| 4 | MICHAEL WINNER and I ceased to be on speaking terms after I described him as a very average director who made very average movies . |
| 5 | I expected to be like a village . |
| 6 | No matter how realistic and cautious I tried to be about changes at home , in my heart I only wanted reassurance that things would be as before . |
| 7 | One which I found to be of great value in my business life , until the advent of decimalisation , was learnt in Standard Four , in the usual sing-song fashion . |
| 8 | I promised to be in a certain place by this time tomorrow , and I intend to be there . |
| 9 | As I left the room I seemed to be in a school and I saw many children in the hall and I seemed to be late for a class . |
| 10 | Twice I rose and tried to help her , but I seemed to be in a different dream . |
| 11 | I came to be with my husband . |
| 12 | To pinch a famous phrase , the road from Edinburgh to Sarajevo is a long one , and I am not sure how I came to be on it . |
| 13 | Storm Jameson , a woman novelist active in the peace movement , later recalled : ‘ For some years after 1933 I lived in equivocal amity with pacifists and combative supporters of the League of Nations , adjusting my feelings , in good and bad faith , to the person I happened to be with . |
| 14 | ‘ Dr Grant was making a round when your call came through to the hospital , and as I happened to be on duty … ’ |
| 15 | I happened to be on duty at Thorn House while she was there . |
| 16 | At the weekend , I happened to be on a panel in a Welsh phone-in along with Wayne Shelford , Brian Price and Phil Bennett . |
| 17 | Charles wanted his protégé in and as I was the resident ( and unpopular ) Baroque sculpture specialist , I happened to be in the way . |
| 18 | This occurred on take-off one evening and I happened to be in the Met Office at the time . |
| 19 | ‘ I happened to be in Annabel 's nightclub last year when a path was opened for Fergie and a man yelled ‘ hi ’ to me and introduced her highness saying ‘ Hey Tak , bow to the Duchess of York and say hello . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I happened to be in the area and Lucasta Redburn 's not a common name , especially in a town the size of Plumford . ’ |
| 21 | I happened to be in Berthing again — cousin of mine lives there . |
| 22 | I know because many years ago I happened to be in the right place , in the ambulance I was driving at the right time and was able to e effect a rescue of an old woman from her smoke filled house at Burstill Ten minutes later I could not have done it because of the smoke . |
| 23 | ‘ Well , I happened to be in the UK , ’ he said briskly , ‘ so I thought I 'd drop by and see how you were doing . |
| 24 | ‘ I happened to be in London on business when my second-in-command rang to let me know the news . |
| 25 | But when the two scholars had gone up to ( Oxford , ‘ I began to be near the top of the form … but still everything at school was an aimless task performed to the letter only . |
| 26 | By a strange coincidence the first ditching I heard about was in No 77 Squadron in the early months of the war . |
| 27 | ‘ When I got here , ’ he said expressionlessly , ‘ I realised I needed to be in love with more than just a city . |
| 28 | To get round that one of the approaches that I talked about was to pre-process the data . |
| 29 | I meant to be at the station , but these people came to look over the house and I could n't get away . ’ |
| 30 | Lochinver was a magnet , largely because of the strange mountains I knew to be in its vicinity , and I longed to go there . |