Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] be [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his next letter Leslie told me that on that day he had been assigned ‘ a rather painful duty … from 4 o'clock this afternoon for 24 hours I am escort to an officer under close arrest , a captain , I believe . |
| 2 | Since Billy 's 'ad that gym on 'is mind 'e 's bin like a cat on 'ot bricks . |
| 3 | you know you sort of , you were there , I am as a trainer you were sort of digging away there getting a bit more information out about people . |
| 4 | That Norwegian we were tld about last week is definately having a trial . |
| 5 | Like the frottole they were music for a wide public and , as with the frottole , the printing-presses multiplied their popularity by producing them in alternative forms . |
| 6 | Although in their own eyes the rebels had simply been fighting for what was rightfully theirs , from the point of view of Henry II and Richard they were disturbers of the peace , and as princes maintaining the peace within their dominions , the Angevins could generally rely on the support of the church . |
| 7 | On the whole speculation is frowned upon because it sometimes drives prices up in a monopolistic fashion ( through the cornering of some market ) and because it creates volatility ; yet where the speculator is a skilled trader in risks he is part of the system . |
| 8 | With the font world in a state of turmoil following the Apple/Microsoft deal it 's time for a few words about maintaining standards . |
| 9 | For centuries it was part of the richest life support system in the world . |
| 10 | This is wrong because in the Chappy/Wallace partnership it was Wallace as the provider/space creater and Chappy as the main scorer . |
| 11 | Lucie began to look nervously around for fear it was part of an ambush by footpads . |
| 12 | Babysitting for Andy till Friday it 's Jenny on Trent F M playing Johnny Hates Jazz . |
| 13 | Friday it 's noon till nine . |
| 14 | ‘ On Friday it was youngsters against old ones . |
| 15 | After the sealing of the Treaty of Nonancourt it was time for Henry II to carry out the promise made at Winchester last September and deal with William and Vulgrin of Angoulême , Aimar of Limoges and the other defeated rebels . |
| 16 | " Whatever it was you said to him has caused him to cancel the work I was doing for him . |
| 17 | By going to the household I was kind of taking the salt ; I was realistically enhancing my prospects of survival . |
| 18 | From a practical standpoint we are suffering from some jail overcrowding problems here and certainly this was one option to take an offender who does n't really belong behind iron bars and punish them at home , and from a personal standpoint I was sort of intrigued with the novelty of it all and the technology aspects of it . |
| 19 | No wonder she 's bundle of nerves . |
| 20 | The seniors did five laps and after one circuit it was Martin in the lead by six seconds . |
| 21 | See a chap at work he 's sort of day dream , you 'll be talking to him and he 's miles away |
| 22 | He spent all his spare time at the Hampstead house now , not only from a liking for the work he was doing for Paul , and Paul himself , but for the sight , the nearness , of Dinah . |
| 23 | In 1947 , in addition to the work he was doing for Lehmann , Minton illustrated two books for Paul Elek — Treasure Island and The Wanderer , an English translation of Alain-Fournier 's Le Grand Meaulnes . |
| 24 | After a few drinks Shildon had mentioned the work he was doing for Eliot . |
| 25 | The establishment of internal controls is the responsibility of management , not of internal audit , but as a service to management it is part of the latter 's role to review , appraise and report on the soundness and adequacy of these controls . |
| 26 | In the south-east of England it was £1,876 per head . |
| 27 | As a player for Middlesbrough , Liverpool and Scotland he was Renoir with a razor-blade , an artistic hardman , whose flamboyant style of play was world class . |
| 28 | At the Albert Hall it was bits of Eric Clapton 's band , Andy Fairweather Low and one of the Heartbreakers , with Katie Kissoon and Laura Niles sumptuously on the side . |
| 29 | Every winter it 's touch down America for the RAF Falcons in Oxfordshire . |
| 30 | In Spain it was £15–25 for landing and parking , since the first band of charges covers aircraft up to five tonnes for landing and two tonnes for parking . |