Example sentences of "[be] [pron] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet since his father 's death there had been nothing between him and his sister but companionship , affection , peace . |
| 2 | One day , while we were sitting around having some coffee with a few other actors , he suddenly said , ‘ Of course The Magnificent Seven would have been nothing without me . ’ |
| 3 | There had been nothing about it on the television news since the day the car was found . |
| 4 | Perhaps Dorothy had been shielded too much , and again in her marriage she had been protected , so that there had been nothing in her life to prepare her for what was happening now . |
| 5 | ’ I could not have accessed it if there had been nothing in it ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ There 's been nothing like it since the Bible , ’ said an obviously excited spokesperson for the book 's publishers , Transworld . |
| 7 | There has been nothing like it in human history . |
| 8 | There had been nothing like it in the UK before . |
| 9 | ‘ The country 's split down the middle on this thing , you know , there 's been nothing like it since Munich . |
| 10 | There had been nothing like it since the heyday of Northcliffe in the early years of the century . |
| 11 | You know that I love you and am nothing without you . |
| 12 | It is puzzling when people say I write like this one and that one and all such different kinds of writers and so many of them , and it makes me feel I am nothing in myself . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ You are nothing to me , nothing , ’ said Troy heartlessly . |
| 14 | I 'm not trying to spoil the romance of prospecting — far from it — but there is a Hollywood stereotype and nine out of ten goldpanners are nothing like it . |
| 15 | And here surely is a hard riddle to read , that where she is I can not come , for here indeed she is , and here am I beside her . |
| 16 | From Sweet Nothin 's and All Alone Am I to I 'm Sorry they just kept coming on Saturday night . |
| 17 | In fact , so impressed am I with his performance that I shall personally be paying his train fare from Birmingham twice a week . |
| 18 | ‘ Oh boy , am I with it . ’ |
| 19 | Am I on it ? |
| 20 | Let it have your sole attention when I am abroad , but when I am at home , so jealous am I of your affections , I shall permit no rival in them even a son and heir . |
| 21 | Am I in your way ? |
| 22 | I like it very much when Othello says , ‘ Rude am I in my speech ’ , and then speaks like eloquence itself . |
| 23 | and he goes why were you in my , why am I in my underwear seen my pants and he goes ah , here 's a message on my knee and he goes P S Sue Carpenter and they look at each other and they go , Sue Carpenter whoooo and then the mouse traps go off and it ends with them going |
| 24 | Now what bearing am I from you ? |
| 25 | In what , what bearing , sorry , what bearing am I from you ? |
| 26 | the inside nought instead of the outside , or you could have it upside down or anything else , but that 's pointing North , you must line it up so it points North , right , now what bearing am I from you ? |
| 27 | She looked at the tyre and saw at once that even if there had been someone about who could have helped her , the tyre could n't be mended on the spot-there was a long split in the outer cover . |
| 28 | ‘ We are beginning to think that it might have been someone from his past , ’ Bragg said . |
| 29 | There have been plenty of them . |
| 30 | There are plenty of them . |