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Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] be [prep] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	All four books reveal a steady concern with imitation and interpretation , and to read them together is to be clearer about what it is that the writer intends us to think that he thinks about things .
2	But the first time I did use it I thought me inside were on fire .
3	‘ Would I rather be on the field ?
4	Is this on pause , I better be on pause .
5	‘ I 've just been tellin' you how Mr Winterburn chased me all over the house when 'is fam'ly was at church one Sunday .
6	I just been in loads of workshops
7	I take I take , only occasionally I go mad and let ripe and have quite a few , other times I just be on an orange juice and lemonade
8	In moving the motion this time I 'm not going to be very passionate like I normally am on on subjects in this council chamber I 'm I 'm actually gon na try and keep , I 'm actually going to try and keep politics down to a low level and er because I believe there conscience on all sides of this chamber .
9	ceremony I ever been in all my life !
10	Had I ever been in love ?
11	I doubt if I ever was in any real sense .
12	Will John and I ever be like that ?
13	I was surprised , as I always was at such moments , how slim and small she felt .
14	That 's what I still am to my mother .
15	I like being in i it 's it 's s It 's your nature , if if
16	I usually am at the end of the week , and this one has been particularly tough .
17	I know you mean well and I do appreciate all you 're doing , but I really am in the middle of a thought and it 's very difficult for me when you keep … look , if it 's really , really important , then please do interrupt me — but only if it 's urgent , OK ?
18	So I began to sleep with men in order to discover myself , to see , through their unknown , hitherto unmet eyes , the self that I really was at the same time as the self that I really might be .
19	And what use would I then be to my father ?
20	It must often seem a ‘ second best ’ situation , to be resisted as long as possible , although for some vulnerable people it comes as a relief and a right , after years of effort , to feel someone else is in charge .
21	This is clear in the case of the thought that someone else is in pain .
22	As Ludwig Wittgenstein puts it : ‘ In order to doubt whether someone else is in pain he needs , not pain , but the concept ‘ pain' .
23	Similarly , if someone were asked , ‘ But what do you mean by ‘ Someone else is in pain ’ ? ’ he might say , ‘ I mean just the same by ‘ pain ’ when I say someone else is in pain as I mean when I say ‘ I 'm in pain ’ . ’
24	Similarly , if someone were asked , ‘ But what do you mean by ‘ Someone else is in pain ’ ? ’ he might say , ‘ I mean just the same by ‘ pain ’ when I say someone else is in pain as I mean when I say ‘ I 'm in pain ’ . ’
25	Similarly , challenged to explain how he could mean the same by ‘ pain' in ‘ Someone else is in pain' as in ‘ I 'm in pain' , since he could n't conceivably experience someone else 's pain , he might produce an argument from analogy to justify the generalisation of pain-language to others .
26	It is useful to recall Wittgenstein in this connection : ‘ It is a help here to remember that it is a primitive reaction to tend , to treat , the part that hurts when someone else is in pain ; and not merely when oneself is ’ ( Z 540 ) .
27	‘ For Gawd 's sake , stay put , you fool , because someone else is in this church and I 've got a funny feelin' it is n't just the Almighty . ’
28	Then Ron 's who else , someone else is in December I ca n't think who it is .
29	Andrew 's head was nearly bursting with the deadly anger in him , half-suffocated by it as he became aware that someone else was in the room .
30	That night , when he awoke in the full certainty that someone else was in the room , he reached for it , where it usually lay by his headrest ; but he had barely moved before he felt its point at his throat .