Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] be in [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Each suspected the other ( each suspected ) of personal , biographical reasons for arguing the case that each , by and large , argued : and the difference between them was in itself odd , as in the great graph of time and place their paths had oddly crossed and oddly coincided .
2 The significance of the work for me is in its effort , not its intentions .
3 Most of them are in it just for the bylines and the booze , you know .
4 But is the consciousness of a beautiful object properly conceived as consisting in two distinct things , consciousness and the object , standing in a certain relation ( of the one being directed at the other ) which makes no difference to what each of them is in itself ?
5 She does fulfil his hopes , in a way ; and the fulfilment of them is in itself a kind of disappointment ; and her name is Rose .
6 An air of double-dealing and deceit hangs over those negotiations , as if to suggest that the record of them is in itself a distortion .
7 Over the span of the years their young faces ( most of them were in their very early twenties ) , alert and clean-shaven in sharp contrast to the beards of the poilus and the fierce , straggly mustachios of their officers , seem to us like the faces of the future .
8 His childish drawings of them were in his bedroom , the only visible memento of their lives .
9 Des Walker 's only ever scored two goals in a forest shirt , and one of them was in his own net .
10 ‘ I think most of you are in it for what you can get .
11 The three of you are in it together .
12 Well you know er , as I said , I think really an awful lot of it is in your own perception of , I mean what someone here might call emotional abuse , I would just regard as a challenge .
13 The point I 'm trying to get at sir is that erm it is none of it is in none of our interests , either the planning authorities or even of the developers , that if we were to erm find a strategic sites policy appropriate for this alteration , it 's in none of our interests that it should be confusing to the public or to the development industry as to how rare a thing this should be and how tightly directed it should be in geographical terms .
14 I imagine most of us have entered that deep valley , and maybe some of us are in it now .
15 ‘ At the end of the day all of us are in it to sell records .
16 Most of us are in it because we love what we do , because we want to contribute something .
17 Sounds like it 's in my bedroom !
18 I felt not only miserable , but strangely scared , as though the pass above me was in itself a terrifying manifestation of dark imaginings , like the entrance gate to the place where the dead wait in limbo .
19 What was in her was in him .
20 The bowl shows her that everything , all the known world is now hers ; everyone in it is in her hands , to do with as she pleases .
21 Now that would be an ea that 's er telemarketing in it 's in it 's pure sense in that you 're offering something free are you interested
22 in it 's in it 's proper form would be a wonderful thing , but er , it 's on because er , it 's only the rich people what make people poor .
23 with a hole in the top and that , and when I went in it was in its box , facing the back of the box and its tail sticking out .
24 He was an old man , and frightened of the death squad of his countrymen , yet allegiance to them was in his blood .
25 ‘ Any Mrs Baudelaire who is senior to me is in her grave , ’ she announced .
26 Ruth saw he could n't move ; the only life left to him was in his eyes , burning .
27 And a hint of his normal happy , teasing manner to her was in his voice .
28 ‘ A journey over it was in itself an education in railway history .
29 for me to sign , I said I 'm sorry I 'm not signing them and I would n't sign any of them and he went back and he said alright then we 'll leave it in your husband 's name , I said yes you 'd better had cos he still owns the house , yet all those bills have come through , I 've had water rates come through in my name , I 've had the electricity come through it 's in my name , the only one bill that was never in his name , never has been is the telephone and that 's included
30 Among them was In His Name , which was put together in response to the need expressed by the Conference of the International Missionary Council held at Willengen in Germany in 1952 , for a book which would help missionary-minded Christians pray for the Church and the World in a way integrated in the full range of Christian faith and worship .
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