Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [vb past] [prep] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They let me off at four in the morning and I had to be in court by nine . |
| 2 | The dread excitement of D-Day came , and I longed to be at Bletchley where I felt I had had a rôle . |
| 3 | MICHAEL WINNER and I ceased to be on speaking terms after I described him as a very average director who made very average movies . |
| 4 | This occurred on take-off one evening and I happened to be in the Met Office at the time . |
| 5 | If I was in a bad mood or something and I wanted to be on my own it would be , ‘ Ah , have you had an argument with the girlfriend ? |
| 6 | ‘ He is my Uncle ; we 've shared the same house for twenty years and I wanted to be with him . |
| 7 | And you had to be with them . |
| 8 | ‘ I guess I threw myself at you because of everything that had happened between Jonathan and myself ; I guess I was just looking for a diversion and you happened to be in the right place at the right time . ’ |
| 9 | And then when Suzanne was she had a lot of trouble carrying her about and she had to be in hospital quite a bit |
| 10 | She saw the red plush benches which would be filled with students next week , and she ached to be amongst them . |
| 11 | Without his so much as kissing her , a raging desire had seized her , and she longed to be in his arms , in his bed , in his heart . |
| 12 | At the time , Mr Reynolds himself had looked out of curiosity and everything seemed to be in order . |
| 13 | But she survived and she lived and brought her children and they left to be in England again . |
| 14 | Sorloth could not make it because he played for his Turkish club at Sunday and he had to be in Poland at 11AM this monday ; and that was not possible . |
| 15 | His words were taken up by many who would not have dreamed of opening any of his more technical works , and he came to be in great demand as a speaker at rallies and at the numerous conferences and seminars on the death of images organized by the Universities , the Churches and the innumerable Humanist organizations which had mushroomed in the immediately preceding decades . |
| 16 | I looked at Oliver and he seemed to be in genuine distress . |
| 17 | Belov was loading up , getting ready to leave , and he seemed to be in a hurry . |
| 18 | He had been immersed in the clean up work for nearly a month and he wanted to be with friends who restore and collect aircraft and who could empathise more fully than most with him about the size of the task and who also might offer some constructive ideas ‘ At first I was in shock , it was too much to comprehend ’ , shared Kermit . |
| 19 | Trent reached the point which he had marked but now the current was that much stronger and he needed to be at the bridge . |
| 20 | The offering had to cost him something — one of his herd of cattle or flock of sheep and goats ( a bird was permitted for the poor ) , and it had to be of the best — a male without blemish . |
| 21 | No , it was a piece I am very fond of and it happened to be in quite a few programmes at that time . |
| 22 | The erm , yes these and it started to be like warfare more than a game you know at that stage but hopefully now we 're getting back to some sort of sanity with the membership cards you know , because we , the crowd is segregated from the away supporters now and that 's cos if Walsall go into the second division again they 'll have to spend so much I believe on the ground to cage the away supporters in which they do n't have to do in the third division . |
| 23 | ‘ My dear fellow , it is but seldom that one has the pleasure of meeting a friend from the old days in Petersburg , but I chanced to be in Vienna recently , and have heard much about you from mutual acquaintances . |
| 24 | Twice I rose and tried to help her , but I seemed to be in a different dream . |
| 25 | I did not understand what the man was doing , but I wanted to be near the fire . |
| 26 | She was still taking medication after her breast cancer operation but she seemed to be on top form and very bubbly and full of plans for the future . |
| 27 | She rose quickly and lit the candles , all six of them which was wasteful , but she needed to be in the light for the shadows in the corners frightened her . |
| 28 | ‘ We realised we were cutting through a bit of red tape but everything seemed to be in the baby 's best interests . ’ |
| 29 | I was unsteady on my feet , and my head felt like a leftover battlefield , but everything seemed to be in more or less working order . |
| 30 | The old man said they were love songs he had written when young , but they seemed to be by Robert Burns as far as Nigel could remember . |