Example sentences of "[pers pn] be in [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whenever I am in Barcelona I expect to run into Jordi , even today , thirty years later , in a totally different , freer , happier Spain . |
| 2 | Tall , but not gigantic ; shorter than I am , in fact , and when I am in France I never find myself towering over people like a Gallic chieftain . |
| 3 | And indeed it 's a sign of the times that I speak not with a mitre metaphorically upon my head but perhaps the glengarry of the convenorship of the Central Council of ACTS and therefore I am in part your servant here . |
| 4 | You 're saying in charge is sort of like , I am in charge which is like this . |
| 5 | I go to various salons and when I 'm in London I get it cut and coloured at Macmillans in Covent Garden — they 're really good . |
| 6 | I 'm in London I 'm in the nick I 'm in fucking Paddington Green for Christ 's sake , the high-security station they use for the Provos and they think I 'm so dangerous so much a security risk they 've got me here and even holding me under the Prevention of Terrorism Act Jesus God because some of them still are n't convinced they are n't dealing with some unholy alliance of the IRA , Welsh Nationalists and uppity jocks . |
| 7 | I 'm in bicycles myself . ’ |
| 8 | I were in power there would n't be any money no need for it ! |
| 9 | Told ya , I know when I were in hospital I had that stuff on me you know it were terrible even though it was |
| 10 | But it was still very difficult , because every day I was in London I was moving from one business to the other and they could not have been more different in character . |
| 11 | ‘ When I was in London I paid people to ascertain if the Templar church near Fleet Street contained anything resembling the River Jordan or the Ark of Moses . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ When I was in Dinosaur I never though I had any real talent . |
| 13 | He said I remembered last night he said if I was in bed I was gon na get wet . |
| 14 | While I was in Germany I took a special interest in the treatment of creative men and women who had lost direction and in some way broken down . |
| 15 | THE LAST TIME I WAS IN Baghdad I was sitting in the bar of the famous , and famously dreadful , Al Rashed ( ‘ It is more than a hotel , ’ say the advertisements , though they do n't tell you in what way ) , drinking with a senior government official . |
| 16 | ‘ The last time I was in England I was foolish enough to take a woman into my confidence . |
| 17 | While I was in Cookham she got knocked back on her parole , she got a five-year review . |
| 18 | but , I , when I was in Stockport I went to work at that tailor 's shop |
| 19 | If you can find someone with a key to let you in , the interior of the chapel is said to be interestingly decorated , but the one time I was in Harambels I could find cows but no people . |
| 20 | Oh yeah , yes , when I went , when I went to a , when I was in India I went to have a , cos I went , I went , I was in the singles section then , in Colchester , and I went out , and I went , not I went to a licence agent first , and then I went to the headquarters , Signals there , and the bloke I remembered best of all , I think , was oh Cakey , his name was and his initials were Cakey . |
| 21 | It is Eastern European in origin , and when I was in Hungary it seemed that every back garden was devoted to growing a mixture of dill and poppies . |
| 22 | When I was in Hawaii I practised for eight or nine hours a day ; now I practise a lot less , but I do so a lot more efficiently and effectively . |
| 23 | But a spokeswoman for the Howard League for Penal Reform fumed : ‘ If I was in jail I would n't want people paying money to come and look at me as if I was in a zoo . ’ |
| 24 | Because what is done , I mean when I was in hospital his mum used to that try and pick up |
| 25 | and whilst , when I was in hospital I always had that feeling that I 'd love to hear the water lapping on a beach , you know and |
| 26 | Roger said : ‘ Having heard so much about TNT while I was in Australia I am pleased to see it working so successfully and in particular I am glad to see a continuation of product supply into the sales organisation as a direct result of TNT principles . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ When I was in Egypt I thought at first that the sun and the desert , the empty sky and the empty sand — that there was nowhere more grand . |
| 28 | Er if I was in power I 'd put a tax on every child after two I would have taxed you out of existence Ellen . |
| 29 | As soon as they knew I was in prison they were trying to get involved and everything . |
| 30 | When I was in prison I used to grip my fingers and bite my tongue and think , ‘ Right , do n't do anything . ’ |