Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] be [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I can be doing the most mundane of tasks , and quite suddenly I 'm in another place , with different people . " |
2 | Suddenly I 'm in another world . ’ |
3 | Er yes because obviously I was in that type of field . |
4 | Yes that 's how that 's how it was , yes all I was on that gate , I 'd been on that gate myself dozens of times . |
5 | Looking at what Micky 's like and everything , when I thought before what it would be like and what the situation actually is , I think basically you 're in another world , you know what I mean ? |
6 | ‘ Perhaps you 're in that holly bush over there ? ’ |
7 | So you been in all day ? |
8 | That is not to say that necessarily they are in any sense physical , that a theory which identifies the mental with the physical , or some of the physical , is forced upon us , whatever our attitude to such a theory . |
9 | Perhaps it is for that reason that Britain will find greater interest in discussing the problems of the former Soviet Union and in establishing the rouble stabilisation fund — even though it will mean us pledging about $600m to help keep the Reds out of the red . |
10 | Perhaps it is for this reason that , in Braudel 's work at least , it is much more generously defined to include various stable but non-material factors . |
11 | Perhaps it is in this context that Evangelicals and Catholics have to look afresh at the troublesome problem of speaking of the sacrament as a ‘ sacrifice ’ . |
12 | Perhaps it is in this area of human relations we have most to study and most to learn . |
13 | My brother Frankie and sister Liza were a little older than I was , so perhaps it was for this reason that I seemed to end up doing most of the chores . |
14 | Perhaps it was for this reason that I hated them as much as I resented menstruation itself . |
15 | perhaps it was at this time that a clerk associated with the rebel Poitevins produced a document designed to show that Henry and Eleanor were within the prohibited degrees of consanguinity and their marriage therefore invalid . |
16 | Perhaps he was in some sort of store-room rather than the garage . |
17 | So it is to most fish 's advantage to grow to their maximum size as quickly as possible . |
18 | Whichever explanation is revealed by the major research effort that is still needed for the rest of the 1980s , the population changes discussed above have also had a major impact on rural communities , and so it is to this topic that attention is now turned . |
19 | So it is with many gases . |
20 | Skilled reading depends upon a flexibility in the application of component subskills , and so it is with all skills . |
21 | So it is with some surprise that the soft left has found itself endorsing Byrne 's view of the conduct of those around him . |
22 | During the past week there have been several occasions where people have been meddling with candles and other things in the church , including the money boxes yet again , and so it is with some sadness that I have decided to keep the church locked during the holiday period . |
23 | So it was with many others , selling implements , rope and all the other necessities needed by the farming community . |
24 | So it was with some trepidation that I put forward the idea of his leaping back into the West End , twenty years after he 'd gratefully left it . |
25 | So it was with some surprise a few years ago that our attention was drawn from the dull French film noir onscreen to the back of the cinema , where a couple were resolving a lovers ' squabble . |
26 | So it was in this instance ; that is to say , my receiving the letter from Miss Kenton , containing as it did , along with its long , rather unrevealing passages , an unmistakable nostalgia for Darlington Hall , and — I am quite sure of this — distinct hints of her desire to return here , obliged me to see my staff plan afresh . |
27 | ‘ The sooner I 'm in that pool again , the happier I 'll be . ’ |
28 | Lord , she 'd been awake ten minutes and already they were at each other 's throats ! |
29 | Individually they are of little importance , but collectively . |
30 | Thus it was in this context , with Soviet leaders feeling that although they possessed an adequate deterrence , it was only minimally adequate , that the decision was taken to install missiles in Cuba ( see Horelick : 1964 ) . |