Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] be in " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A good dealer gives a service — everything I sell is in perfect condition and I buy back my stuff if need be . ’ |
| 2 | But I mean being in the water I had no life jacket or anything like that so it was a matter of trying to keep afloat and er kicking off my boots and getting me overalls . |
| 3 | But , I mean being in their seventies , well he 's eighty now ! |
| 4 | Ooh I , I mean being in a right mess |
| 5 | Tagalog concepts are directly relevant to the present discussion because the Buid with whom I lived are in daily contact with Tagalog speaking immigrants from neighbouring islands . |
| 6 | I hate being in debt to anyone , but with you it 's different , Jane . |
| 7 | basically so am I , I 've got to write a news in the next few days so I 'll see in early February tell him about the ideas , I 've also been in touch with another lobbying firm , I say been in touch but it 's quite easy because |
| 8 | The salesman I approached was in his early forties and begrudgingly admitted that he had a fair knowledge of the wordprocessor we use . |
| 9 | The only other official site I used was in Isafjördur but in the first week of June , at minus five degrees , I had been alone . |
| 10 | How glad I 'd been in those first nights with him . |
| 11 | The water smelled dankly of mud and winter , which I had n't seemed to notice when I 'd been in it . |
| 12 | ‘ If I 'd been in your shoes I 'd have walked right out on him . ’ |
| 13 | After I 'd been in three years , I got married . |
| 14 | ‘ I always wished I 'd been in love and run away when I was young . ’ |
| 15 | I 'd been in a light sleep . |
| 16 | It was the first time , too , that I 'd been in a classroom with girls , and I got in with a bad bunch of women . |
| 17 | They all put in their tenpenny 's worth about what they thought should be filmed , but nobody asked my opinion , and I 'd been in more films than the rest of the cast put together . |
| 18 | It was difficult — you know , first time I 'd been in charge . |
| 19 | ‘ If I 'd been in cold sobriety I would never have married her . |
| 20 | And if I 'd been in his skin , and seen the power in Dawn 's beak and feet , I do n't think I 'd have done anything either . |
| 21 | I 'd been in the presenter role long enough to know I could do It . |
| 22 | I 'd put on weight while I 'd been in bed , and the zip on my slacks would n't do up more than half-way . |
| 23 | I 'd been in there four months and they came and told me they 'd gone to America . |
| 24 | I 'd been in Drake Hall a week . |
| 25 | Nobody seemed to accept that I 'd been in charge of my own body and my own medication for the best part of my life ; they seemed to think that was a very strange idea . |
| 26 | That was quite nice , to see somebody that I 'd been in prison with and still be able to sit down and talk the same old way . |
| 27 | Elsie B graced me with a long chat which made me feel as if I 'd been in the presence of royalty , though I suspect not too many members of the Royal Family are at their desk as early as Elsie . |
| 28 | If I 'd been in Bill 's position I , or if we 'd had been in Bill 's position , we 'd have done the same as well . |
| 29 | Er but I used to tell people and they you know people near me that had a lot of children and er they 'd moan and groan about it , I heard one woman say erm , she 'd had quite a few children and I I 'd been in hospital and I said er , er a certain person that 'd had a baby had lost it . |
| 30 | Darren had been dead a couple of months ; I had fallen out with my father and I 'd been in London for most of the summer , staying with Aunt Ilsa and her long-term companion , whose only name appeared to be Mr Gibbon , which I thought made him sound like a cat for some reason … |