Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [prep] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the end I contacted my good friend Tom Poulton of the Tropical Marine Centre , Exeter , on the basis that I am at least a customer of his , albeit mainly for fish rather than equipment . |
| 2 | I am at least a stone overweight and my haircut is not sharp . |
| 3 | ‘ I am from near the Sukkariya , ’ the boy growled . |
| 4 | ‘ Peter would have brought it himself , but I 'm over here a lot these days . ’ |
| 5 | I 'm in rather a hurry . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Actually , I 'm in rather a hurry . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm in rather a state about it myself , John , ’ said Bob . |
| 8 | ‘ It all gives me the feeling that I 'm in completely the wrong place . |
| 9 | But I 'm in there every day and I 'm the one who knows that the profile we have on radio and television should be higher . |
| 10 | No the ball I was over here the ball was over there . |
| 11 | Does n't that mean that I was at least a little sober ? |
| 12 | Obviously I should have provided more text than I did , but I suppose I was in rather a hurry . |
| 13 | in case you did n't notice I was in rather a little bit of a mood on Friday ! |
| 14 | I genuinely liked them as people , I loved their music , and I was in exactly the right place at the right time . |
| 15 | I was in almost the last batch to receive the award . |
| 16 | His was by now a familiar position , and the critical reactions to it had also become predictable : praise at his critical acumen in the examination of individual authors was mixed with scorn or bafflement at the general principles he espoused . |
| 17 | You are at least the third person today who calls to inquire . |
| 18 | But you are in quite a good position now . |
| 19 | and , and stuff like that so I mean in a sense you 're by now a fairly good judge of the way to go about this sort of thing , you 're a fairly good judge of what sort of things are important , perhaps the way in which people describe stuff and , and , you know , words , concepts , vocabularies erm all that kind of thing which obviously it helps if your questionnaire fits in with |
| 20 | ‘ She 's by far the biggest influence on my writing , ’ affirms Emily . |
| 21 | She is a wooden ship , not unlike the old clippers we used to run for the grain trade before World War I , but she is at least a century older . |
| 22 | Is there anything else that I can do for her cos she says she is in quite a lot of discomfort at the moment . |
| 23 | Of all the women I know , she is by far the most successful with men , even though she is n't the best-looking . |
| 24 | I did n't think they could know anything about my boat — she was at least a mile away , on the northern edge of Winter Marsh , and as I 'd come from the road on the south they had no reason to search the northern shore . |
| 25 | She was at least the image of an injured Stealer , blackened and fused by fire , one which had lost some appendages , perhaps lasered off , perhaps in an explosion ; a Stealer which still remained very much alive and able to use its deadly main claws . |
| 26 | The fact that she had been the ship that had sunk the Rawalpindi and killed my father did not seem to me to be a valid reason for omitting her from the series , for apart from the utter impersonality of a modern sea battle , she was by far the most successful of all the major German surface ships as well as being the happiest . |
| 27 | She was by far the quietest , as well as much the nicest , of my four aunts , and normally a rather shy woman . |
| 28 | He thought she was by far the most gorgeous female he 'd ever met . |
| 29 | Her monograph , The Metabolism of Fat , published in 1943 as the first of Methuen 's monographs in biochemistry , summarized her views on the field , in which she was by then a recognized authority . |
| 30 | The walls were a blaze of colour — vivid , exciting , dramatic paintings that all but covered the walls , and she was in nearly every one of them . |