Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [noun] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm vice-guildmaster in charge of tourism , you know . ’ |
| 2 | My mother and I were evacuees in Cumberland , a few hundred miles north . |
| 3 | I was horn in March 1947 , at the peak of the Bulge : more babies horn that month than ever before or after , and carried through the terrible winter of 1946–47 . |
| 4 | ‘ Since 'e 's bin in wiv that crowd from the Tunnel , though , 'e 's a changed boy . |
| 5 | Painted on the walls of a barracks in the last century had been the words , ‘ Legionnaires , you are soldiers in order to die , and I am sending you where you can die . ’ |
| 6 | You 're spookola in spades this ayem … ‘ |
| 7 | If you 're $10,000 in debt , it 's twice as worrying as being $5,000 in debt but only half as worrying as being $20,000 in debt . |
| 8 | And if you 're $10,000 in debt , and $10,000 comes along — why , then all your worries disappear . |
| 9 | They were to remember where they came from : ‘ Remember that you were slaves in Egypt and the Lord your God brought you out with a strong hand and an outstretched arm . ’ |
| 10 | She is artist in residence at Kettles Yeard , Cambridge |
| 11 | She is holiday in Gers , a very exclusive part of France , but would much prefer to be going to Tobago . |
| 12 | Admittedly there had been almost no money in it , but he took it as evidence that she was saving in order to leave him . |
| 13 | But the money ran out , so she was cutoff in mid-sentence . |
| 14 | She was disconsolate in consequence , and seemed to find time hanging heavily on her hands . |
| 15 | Well she was Dave in lesson time apparently . |
| 16 | She was harmony in sandalwood , a citrine that sang . |
| 17 | Also in Saturdays edition ( front page ) , Silver says we sold him cos we are 6m in debt , apparently LUFC owe Silver 1m . |
| 18 | She said firmly , ‘ We are colleagues in work . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ To the people we deal with we are Courtaulds in Italy . |
| 20 | ‘ We 're fools in love , the pair of us — ’ |
| 21 | ‘ It almost sounds as if we 're 58% in charge of what we 're doing . |
| 22 | It was because we were strangers in bed that we were passionately involved there . |
| 23 | But we were opposites in temperament . |
| 24 | Warnings of eco-wars and the flight of hundreds of millions of refugees can not be dismissed as fantasies : they are probabilities in situations which become more and more apparent as the century nears its end . |
| 25 | They are Rossifloor in Italy , Balsan in France and Cabrita in Belgium . |
| 26 | Instead , attitudes are stances taken in matters of controversy : they are positions in arguments ( Billig , 1987a ; Billig , in press ) . |
| 27 | Most perching songbirds ( passerine birds ) have to hear their species ’ songs when they are chicks in order to produce normal songs as adults . |
| 28 | To that first question , there is the answer that necessarily they are spatio-temporal-things in space and time . |
| 29 | In terms of Parry and Parry 's definition , they are professions in name only . |
| 30 | And although you know , to all intents and purposes , those appointments are inviolate , I know that they 're in pink on the slide , but they are inviolate in terms of I 'm not going to cede that time to anyone else . |