Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [verb] [adv prt] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am curled up in the armchair , flicking through a book . |
| 2 | Does this mean that as I am going up in the lift , I see it expanding ? ’ |
| 3 | Mr. Chairman , ladies and gentlemen , it is n't that I would like to say a word , it is that told me to say a word , and I realise I am starting off in the right way . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm stopping up in the wood . ’ |
| 5 | I 'm going up in the bedroom next . |
| 6 | No , he came out for about ten minutes then he said I 'm going back in the house mummy , just then flopped on the chair |
| 7 | I 'm going out in the middle of a field . |
| 8 | she said and now I 'm finishing school I still need them sometimes for a meal and then I 'm going out in the W R V S shop , something like that in the chain , |
| 9 | So I was laid out in the back of the van on the bed and he 's driving down this field to put the tent , because it had little er bits you know where it 's marked out for you to camp , and I 'm driving around in the back saying , yes you 've , you 've just missed the fence there and you know . |
| 10 | My brother and I were brought up in the Catholic faith . |
| 11 | There was also the night when I was buzzing round in the office car , making the routine late calls at the district police stations and ambulance headquarters in Cardiff , just before midnight . |
| 12 | It is simply that I was brought up in the East of Scotland and have lived in places whither the Orangemen walketh not , neither in triumph nor provocation . |
| 13 | I was brought up in the world of the arts because , apart from the Rothschild side which had some influence on me , my mother was a completely Bloomsbury figure , and her mother was a great friend of Matisse and a distinguished collector — she was a Strachey , very English . |
| 14 | As a male Caucasian with a father who had died of a coronary thrombosis at the age of 59 , I was brought up in the smoky atmosphere of a northern industrial town . |
| 15 | Like most people , I was brought up in the belief that a nightmare was something bad that happened while you were asleep . |
| 16 | And it it was , I mean I was brought up in the country and it , I found it really shocking that people had to live like that , you know . |
| 17 | I was brought up in the country , on a farm you know , so I 'll try and sort of make you know equal amount of flowers in each , and then er it can be halved . |
| 18 | ‘ I was brought up in the countryside . |
| 19 | I was brought up in the cloister , and have Latin and French as well as English and Welsh . ’ |
| 20 | I was brought up in the days of the old Police Acts . |
| 21 | It was an unfortunate evening for me : I was knocked out in the second round , the only time I was knocked out , either at Eton or at Oxford . |
| 22 | Says Harrison : ‘ I was thrashing about in the water with all my clothes on and ended up being dragged down . |
| 23 | I was waiting out in the garden for you to come back . ’ |
| 24 | When I was tipped back in the dentist 's chair |
| 25 | It was just as I was sitting down in the living room with my cup of coffee that I realised I 'd left my bag on the train . |
| 26 | So I was laid out in the back of the van on the bed and he 's driving down this field to put the tent , because it had little er bits you know where it 's marked out for you to camp , and I 'm driving around in the back saying , yes you 've , you 've just missed the fence there and you know . |
| 27 | I was caught up in the Truby King Mothercraft doctrine of 1935 … |
| 28 | Cos I was going out in the fresh air , I 'm alright when I 'm out in the fresh air . |
| 29 | I was woken up in the night sometimes , the spare bed in my room being made up for someone they 'd met down the Club , the other lodger 's room already occupied . |
| 30 | If you are to move about in the senior echelons of industry , this is an important ability to develop . |