Example sentences of "be in pretty " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Well , they reckon they 're in pretty good shape physically : just 1 in 5 describe themselves as unfit , and only a third consider that they 're even slightly overweight . |
| 2 | They 're in pretty tight with Langley . |
| 3 | If you had told me four years ago that what has happened would happen , I would have expected to have been in pretty poor shape by now . |
| 4 | This makes us feel very feeble , as we have friends of our age who think nothing of motoring from here to Lowestoft in the day — but such feats are not for us , though we flatter ourselves that in most respects we are in pretty good nick . |
| 5 | Yeah it 's just a small volume , you 've just got one channel for , yeah currently I 'm in pretty good shape but only a year ago I had a major bypass operation . |
| 6 | Certainly you would have to be in pretty desperate case to dismiss the eloquent Michelozzo figures on the cenotaph frieze in the Duomo as ‘ wriggling in lines like leeches in a bottle ’ . |
| 7 | Apart from that , my body seems to be in pretty reasonable working order . |
| 8 | The preliminaries on this occasion extended over a rather lengthy period and so the 150 or so guests were in pretty good form when we eventually sat down to one of the best ‘ function type ’ meals that I have ever enjoyed . |
| 9 | Not the slightest mention of money , either , for an interview in depth from , offhand , Gavaskar , Richards , Botham , Willis , Marshall , McEnroe , Connors or Borg — though the latter , I must admit , was expecting me to stay the day , yet by elevenses we agreed there was not much more to say to each other except ‘ My game 's in pretty good shape ’ . |
| 10 | Not the slightest mention of money , either , for an interview in depth from , offhand , Gavaskar , Richards , Botham , Willis , Marshall , McEnroe , Connors or Borg — though the latter , I must admit , was expecting me to stay the day , yet by elevenses we agreed there was not much more to say to each other except ‘ My game 's in pretty good shape ’ . |
| 11 | Everything up there 's a complete write-off , and most of the first floor 's in pretty bad shape . |
| 12 | They are a way of saying , ‘ The world 's in pretty bad shape , Jesus , and pretty soon someone will come along and give us pain and suffering and woe . ’ ’ |
| 13 | It 's in pretty bad taste and encourages children to nasty games . |
| 14 | Shelford was in Wales last October to watch Neath beat Toulouse , a result which has led him to a conclusion similar to Wyllie 's : ‘ From the performance Neath put on that night , Welsh rugby is in pretty healthy hands . ’ |
| 15 | He 's been shot twice in the chest and is in pretty bad shape . |
| 16 | Last year I was in pretty poor shape through years of dedicated indulgence — 38 years old , 5ft 10 ins and 16 stone . |
| 17 | Yes I mean er when I s er you know when I was on the Q E Two and was chatting with a fella and er he , they 'd been , he 'd obviously been cruising before and was on this cruise and er they were going on the er another Cunard ship a few months later , and it turned out that he was a hotelier who 'd bought a hotel in Swanage some years ago , I think he 'd had about seven bedrooms when he bought it and he gradually extended it , I forget how many he did tell me , and then he had a bit of a heart er attack and er his doctor told him to , you know , well if I were you I 'd just pack in your job which he did and that was about fifteen years ago he was I du n no if he was eighty or he was approaching eighty if he was n't and was in pretty good form , he was dancing , and er , you know , I mean there money 's no object . |