Example sentences of "[vb mod] to be in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Try as I might to be in the present , to subsume myself to history , to see myself as just another corpuscle coursing along the urban arteries , I could n't . |
| 2 | Jay had no inclination to go through the who are you , what do you do , oh really , gosh my brother-in-law used to be in the same field . |
| 3 | In some ways I might as well have been in the Outer Hebrides , Now everyone 's got a car it 's difficult to explain how isolated somewhere like Kensal Green used to be in those days . |
| 4 | It used to be in the blue mug , but Marie took that . |
| 5 | Yes , he says , he does meet fellow Vietnamese workers who used to be in Germany but , no , they do not discuss politics . |
| 6 | They dispose of ‘ all the nice furniture that used to be in the saloon and then the candelabra ’ . |
| 7 | I used to be in school with Byron . |
| 8 | I 'll have a look in the loft , shall I , for those little Kate Greenaway pictures that used to be in Hilary 's room ? |
| 9 | It used to be in all the fields then , and he used to take all the kids gathering coltsfoot . |
| 10 | They used to be in the garden here , but Her Majesty doesnae care for them so they were thrown out on the rubbish heap , but the rubbish heap was by the river so the seeds were carried down by the water and sprouted by themselves on the bank . |
| 11 | It 's only when the peak has been conquered that thoughts turn to the delicious things that used to be in the foil-covered dishes , and the question of how best to prepare the spam . |
| 12 | The main home of the Irish polled cattle used to be in the north west . |
| 13 | A few years ago — before 1986 — I was at a party with a few friends and we met some people who used to be in athletics . |
| 14 | I could see the socks inside the trainers — they were Dayglo green , the sort that used to be in fashion years ago — and they kept walking towards me . |
| 15 | Not like it used to be in our young day . ’ |
| 16 | For example , when I first lived alone I used to be in a state of anxiety every time I left the house , for fear that I had forgotten something . |
| 17 | One used to be in Bristol 's Cortinas , the other one was really called Greg and studied Physics and Astronomy at University College London . |
| 18 | Mention ‘ Shaw ’ to a young person now , and they might just remember Martin , who used to be in The Professionals . |
| 19 | ‘ When I was manager , I previously told Chief Inspector Dick Hebberd , who used to be in charge of policing at Underhill , about them , but he has since been transferred . |
| 20 | He used to be in the board meeting with us , and was referred to as the ‘ sleeping partner ’ by the directors ! ’ |
| 21 | We used to be in the same practice , Peter and I. Now he 's doing his stuff under the desert sun . |
| 22 | ‘ Also , it seems , a qualified solicitor who used to be in partnership up North somewhere , but quit to make a fulltime career of saving wayward youngsters . |
| 23 | For her , Christmas is a time when the children are at the sparkling forefront of it all — the way it used to be in her own childhood , as Diana Spencer , at Althorp House in Northamptonshire . |
| 24 | She used to be in the front line at the Windmill . ’ |
| 25 | As a rough guide two strands wound together make something approximately like three-ply in thickness and three together are usually reckoned to be about a four-ply. these fine industrial yarns used to be in the ‘ odds and ends ’ bins , but the manufacturers have caught on to the fact that they are popular with machine knitters , so now they can be bought under a brand name . |
| 26 | One of The Lemon Trees used to be in The Waterboys . |
| 27 | Even the much vaunted Mick Jones collaboration sounds like Mick Jones used to be in The Alarm not The Clash . |
| 28 | In fact , Shane ‘ Patrick Number Six ’ MacGowan and Shaun used to be in a group together at school long before The Pogues and the Mondays were formed . |
| 29 | THAT BLOKE WHO USED TO BE IN THE SMITHS CAUSES A BIT OF A STIR AGAIN … |
| 30 | when we erm , er when we were doing those projects we erm , we had a comments book and more , more people were in favour of them and saw them as an improvement to the town and so it needs something that 's really interesting actually , it 's er , erm the work 's department have said , as a result of those graffiti projects they can shift two officer 's from the graffiti team to the highway 's team , so it 's actually cut down on the work of actually clearing up unwanted graffiti , so it 's had a positive effect , so we , we 've got these two people work with the other people and we 've got Dorothy who 's working with , with black people and ethnic minorities in the town and erm for people who were here when this presentation was last given , er Robin who used to be in the local The Policy Team of the Local Government Unit is now actually a Community Development Officer , one of the decision 's , Robin use to do video work for the Authority erm , and we decided we asset whether the the need for that kind of , k ind of work to continue , and we thought on balance not erm and he now is running the music rehearsal space over at Latton Bush , that again is a project for young people , to enable , it 's a place where band 's can practice and that 's the problem in Harlow erm and er that 's really exciting project because it 's bringing in a lot of income for the Council as as well as providing the service that people want and , and it , I mean it is important at this time that we are doing limited projects where we are bringing in income , cos at , you know we estimate that erm we can get that erm rehearsal space properly resource , that project could be self financing , so your providing a service but your also getting paid , your getting paid for as well , so erm that is who we are now and were er , where were located , we have an open door policy as people will know . |