Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [noun] in [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 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 voyagers in our own living madness . |
| 4 | ‘ Can we help it if we 're putty in your hands ? ’ |
| 5 | I suppose we 're nutters in our own way . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | They are children in their love of pictures and music . |
| 8 | One famous example of this was when he asked students to pretend that they were boarders in their own homes , and to behave accordingly . |
| 9 | Until 1958 , females , even though they were peeresses in their own right , were not admitted . |
| 10 | All the girls I used were n't bimbo model types — they were people in their own right . |
| 11 | It 's peace in our time , as Chamberlain said … ‘ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It 's pains in her stomach . |
| 14 | 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 ! |
| 15 | 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. |
| 16 | It is people in their use of language who are logical or illogical , not languages or dialects themselves . |
| 17 | Derrida comes across as seriously concerned with philosophy and the problems of teaching it ; and he is non-committal in his response to a question about the possibility of introducing deconstruction into high schools . |
| 18 | It was pride in his beauty that was his undoing ! ’ |
| 19 | It was cats in her case . |
| 20 | It was the it was boats in me mother 's day , of course then the drafters was . |
| 21 | It was Anderson in his Manchester pamphlet who most conspicuously at this early stage of the antislavery campaign raised the free-labour argument and implicitly defined its appropriateness to man 's nature . |
| 22 | Amanda had been all enthusiastic even in the rain , saying it was spray in her face and look at the gulls , which were swooping down on the shoal of crisp packets and orange peel trailing in the wake . |
| 23 | He was putty in her hands from the beginning . |