Example sentences of "[prep] be [prep] [pos pn] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ( The following week the goal is again to lose half a pound of fat ( 0.25 kg ) , so she would hope on Week 2 to be below her starting weight by at least 1 lb ( 0.5 kg ) on most days ) .
2 102 , here attributed to Willem Drost ) , the first depicting the artist 's sick wife Saskia , the second previously thought to be of his son Titus , Mr Royalton-Kisch felt that emotional attachment to the supposed subject matter had clouded judgement over attribution of drawings such as these .
3 Equipment worth over £15,000 was taken in the raid believed to be for its scrap value .
4 Rosa had moved from Tucupita to be with her daughter Alicia after the death of Juan 's father in a riding accident .
5 Diana will go to her family home of Althorp , Northants , today to be with her brother Charles and his wife and children .
6 She herself had long abandoned Highbury to be with her Miss Dinah ; not only was she devoted to the children , but she could make a little money by letting her own house .
7 Hence Sharon and partner Martin can only get to be with their pedigree chum for a few precious hours on Sunday mornings at kennels in Wickford .
8 I want to be with my friend Elaine . ’
9 He likes to take time off to be with his wife Judy and their four children .
10 Er if they wanted to be on their roller skates or even on their bikes , then they were sort of going around the walkways .
11 In the afternoon the pupils could relax playing games though the staff still had to be on their toes refereeing .
12 I think the main thing is there 's about six hours sort of realistically speaking of really good quality hours to be on your B M S set during the day , and just to sort of add up the hours that you are actually on the phone making outgoing calls , sort of brings it home to you .
13 You should plan to be at your FREELINK pick-up point not later than 15 minutes before scheduled departure .
14 At first she told him that she wanted to be near her cousin Freddy , in the Engineers .
15 Whatever the balance of gains and losses , the nationalised Area Boards were certainly more frugal than their predecessors had expected to be in their capital expenditure .
16 oh yes , oh I know Dora she used to be in our dancing troop
17 It would be too bad if the Panzers overran our positions and we were found to be in our stocking feet .
18 At the teacher 's suggestion I then found myself colouring some swing tickets at happened to be in my knitting bag and attaching these to a very poor piece of knitting .
19 Years later , even , when 617 just happened to be in my Canberra Wing at Binbrook after the war , oddly enough both Nos 617 and 9 Squadrons found themselves together in my four-squadron wing .
20 Benjamin Titford , we must say , was not quite as elevated socially as he appears to be in his water-colour portrait ; or rather , he had only recently become so — which was good enough , after all , for any Victorian member of the nouveaux-riches .
21 ‘ In the old times we hijras used to be like your zero zero seven .
22 one happened to be by our client Paul Brady , and ‘ Private Dancer ’ was written by Mark Knopfler .
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