Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] be in [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many kind Friends interest themselves in George Green 's behalf , and I find that by this day 's post an application has been made for a specimen of his hand-writing etc. and a hope held out of a situation ( in a Counting house , I believe ) , but if you were willing to take him , and if it could be arranged in other points , he would greatly prefer being in your establishment to any thing else . |
| 2 | Where we agree with the suggestions of the feminist philosophers we have just quoted is in their insistence that philosophical theory comes out of experience , so that philosophy formulated exclusively by men will reflect the experience of men . |
| 3 | The classical piece Cale always claimed was in him never emerged , mainly because the showman in him would n't let it go : ‘ there was just so much chaos going on , in my personal and creative life , that I could n't finish … |
| 4 | The Captain was freer than he could ever remember being in his whole career . |
| 5 | Not that he could ever have been in her bed , at least not at Leamings . |
| 6 | On the particular afternoon to which I am referring , his lordship would still have been in his mid-fifties ; but as I recall , his hair had greyed entirely and his tall slender figure already bore signs of the stoop that was to become so pronounced in his last years . |
| 7 | And of course there was no question of her having escaped from a mental hospital or of ever having been in one . |
| 8 | If his father had lived he would now have been in his sixtieth year . |
| 9 | Both those ideas now said were in our future targets . |
| 10 | Where this book mainly fails is in its implied answer to the question : what sort of science is to be grown ? |
| 11 | Where Hobson and Angell really diverged was in their assessment of the attitudes of the rich towards international conflict short of war itself . |
| 12 | ‘ Doctors said the fact that I am well built was in my favour , ’ said Ged , of Barn Hey Farm , Netherley , near Liverpool . |
| 13 | The presence of Cézanne is felt strongly behind both Three Women and Bread and Fruit Dish on a Table , and the borrowed Braque may well have been in his studio when he painted them . |
| 14 | The usual ration of affront , resentment , even anger was in her . |
| 15 | But the petty snobbery and priggishness of which it is sometimes accused are in my view much less serious ( and in any case demonstrably declining ) than are two tendencies : the first , to make the curriculum and the public examination system a closed circuit ; the second , to be increasingly concerned with training — in other words , to think of its pupil-product more and more as an instrument rather than as an end . |
| 16 | If you are the victim of a burglary , the value of the property that has been stolen might be large or small , but the emotional upset and the feeling that someone else has been in your home can live with you for a long time . |
| 17 | If she had the sense she 'd been born with she 'd get up from the table right now , wish him a polite good evening , and scuttle back to the safety of the dressing-room , there to make a pledge never to risk being in his company again . |