Example sentences of "be [verb] [pron] in [det] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ And you 're going to be in a lot of trouble when I tell the police you 're keeping me in this car by force . ’
2 If the police had never set up the jewellers shop , they would , in my judgment , have been doing the same thing , though of course they would not have been doing it in that shop , at that time .
3 We are absolutely thrilled that Daiwa will be helping us in such an effective way .
4 I was half proud , half ashamed to be using it in this way .
5 My payment will be to see you in these clothes .
6 But we 'll be building it in such a way as lets us add without making a pig 's breakfast of it .
7 We 'll be seeing you in another two weeks anyway , wo n't we ?
8 Please understand — it 's not that I 'm doubting you in any way .
9 I should not be pressuring her in this way .
10 Oh that 's November , December can we not be doing something in those five weeks on the environment ?
11 Or will the Chief Secretary and his friends be sunning themselves in some tax haven by that time ?
12 I 'm doing something in that .
13 You turned round and said , do it in that one , so I 'm doing it in that one , then you changed to doing it in that one .
14 ‘ They were sawing it in half and heaving all these rocks around on the Saturday morning trying to make it look like anything other than a total abortion .
15 What is , to my mind , incredible , is that he could ever have supposed that the money was being either paid by the plaintiffs or received by the defendants with the intention or on the footing that the defendants were to keep it in any event .
16 She had charm , a way of making you feel that you were joining her in some harmless conspiracy .
17 Through the discipline of such action , that is , through karma yoga , which involves ahi sā , we come to the realization of Truth or God , for to realize God is to see Him in all that lives , and to recognize our oneness with all creation .
18 Once you have been through the various categories listed above and picked out all the names to be included next step is to arrange them in some sort of order .
19 I know she is going to need permanent care very soon — everyone 's urging me in that direction .
20 what I 've tried to do is not to and we 've had the money , is to buy one in each set cos we have n't got the money to buy full sets , thirty books is a joke !
21 Let us assume as an example that a gene is isolated which in several mutated forms predisposes for schizophrenia .
22 You may agree with honours or not , we 've done this programme a few year ago , Bill , but classless is erm , as I understand it , is to give anyone in this country erm the opportunity to get to the top .
23 Tell you what it could be , ah hang on a minute , I ordered an extension for a bloody for a phone for that office , it could be the phone that 's doing it in that office there I know , I know it could be corrupting , you know on the mark one the big one , the old generation mark one
24 erm We 've got to recognise the professional advice that Matthew is giving us in this report , that he , he needs professional trained staff , and it grieves me that really we can only offer a technician when he is asking for something more .
25 You do n't know how glad I was to see you in that little cottage talking to old Freitas .
26 In the dream , I was singing it in all me funny voices , from the squeaky one to the gruff one and it was a pile of bollocks .
27 Ari wondered whether she was betraying him in some way by leaving him alone with the dreaded sibling of Cabochon Crevecoeur .
28 I was holding it in such an awkward way that fingers eventually protested .
29 Their names were Donald , Ian and Hugo , and they told us that they were extremely grateful for all the food but that the last thing they wanted was to put us in any danger : they begged us not to come again because there would almost certainly be someone in the village who would denounce us to the Germans or the Fascists .
30 The ragged hole appeared in the beard again ; it occurred to me that the shrink was baiting me in some way , teasing me .
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