Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Think of the many hours when the two of them are closeted in the den . |
| 2 | I mean some of them are built in the roof . |
| 3 | We have all inherited personal preferences in one shape or form by a variety of different roots ; some of those origins are clear , others of them are lost in the entanglements of time and circumstance . |
| 4 | He now shares his flat with sixty spiders and , as Erika Barnes reports , some of them are kept in the most unusual of places . |
| 5 | Ways of using them are discussed in the next three chapters . |
| 6 | Most of them are contained in the report I had drawn up , which is in front of you now . ’ |
| 7 | Had I been born in the Middle Ages , I knew that I would have been one of those retainers who stayed inside the castle and embroidered whilst the knights went off to slaughter the French . |
| 8 | I am proceeding in the belief that there is a unity in developmental mechanisms , and whilst the sea-urchin provided an excellent model , there are other examples to be considered . |
| 9 | But when I am kicked in the groin in my father 's house , when I am taunted and called ‘ nigger ’ and ‘ black bastard ’ , when I am arrested as a result of police harassment , at those times I am ashamed to be British . |
| 10 | Notwithstanding the views that have found favour with others I consider this to be a reasonable construction of the statutory provisions and I am comforted in the fact that , apart from an attempt to tax airline employees , which was taken to the special commissioners who decided in favour of the taxpayer , this has been the practice of the Inland Revenue in applying the relevant words where they have occurred in the Income Tax Acts for so long as they have been in force , until they initiated the present cases . |
| 11 | ‘ I am Betty 's pusher but because I have had a hip replacement I am limited in the amount I can walk , ’ said Mr Richardson . |
| 12 | ‘ Take me in by your fire for I am shivering with cold and I am lost in the forest … oh be merciful and let me share your fire and give me a cup of milk to sup and a mouthful of bread … ’ |
| 13 | I am writing in the light of a meeting with ScotRail on 3 November , which was attended by Stuart Smith from the LDU , and a subsequent telephone conversation between Brian Sharkie and yourself . |
| 14 | ’ I am writing in the hope that you may be able to give me some positive information regarding the money I am supposed to live on . |
| 15 | I am writing in the reply to the ongoing correspondence and discussions between yourselves and various departments within the Council regarding your application for funding for repairs to the building in Garden Terrace Road . |
| 16 | In any case , whatever machines are at my disposal , the simple movable table on which I am leaning in the photograph will still be where the first hand-written draft is composed . |
| 17 | I am lying in the grass dazed by the sun and the busy ants , by the myriad humming galore of a river on a summer afternoon . |
| 18 | If a car suddenly swerves round the corner while I am standing in the middle of the road , the right thing for me to do is to jump for the pavement as spontaneously as a cat . |
| 19 | I try not to think about it ; I just block it all out and concentrate on what I am doing in the ring . |
| 20 | I attend the Assembly as a Member of this House and I should like the opportunity to report back to the House , during a proper debate , on what I am doing in the Council of Europe . |
| 21 | I am sitting in the shade of a gum tree , by the side of a dusty road in Pinjarra , Western Australia . |
| 22 | I am sitting in the cab crying the tears of the hopelessly misunderstood . |
| 23 | So , two days on the road and here I am sitting in the sun in a café opposite the , having just eaten and drunk the compulsory croque-monsieur and hot chocolate . |
| 24 | I am sitting in the darkness , straining to hear my tutor on the phone in the dining-room on the other side of the hall . |
| 25 | Lunching with Lord Dynevor , I told him of my settled feeling that I am playing in the final of the FA Cup , that there are three minutes to go and that my team is 0-4 down . |
| 26 | No address is given on either the product or the instructions and so I am left in the dark . |
| 27 | Erm so My Lords I am left in the slight dilemma that erm I 'm not er none of the amendments we 're discussing are absolutely ideal from my point of view and meet the three difficulties er which I have touched on and indeed the amendment to which I have put my name erm number eleven , would I think be better erm to have a minority of er er a minimum number of eighteen rather than sixteen so as to simplify the arithmetical processes of contemplated er a two-thirds majority , but of the er amendments that we are discussing er if the opinion of the House is to be sort , I myself would go along with Amendment five and the two other associated amendments with which the Noble Lord , Lord has submitted for consideration of the Committee . |
| 28 | I am laughing in the darkness . |
| 29 | I open the window a crack and breathe in the coldness , as I do when I am running in the evenings . |
| 30 | The Right to Know Bill , which I am introducing in the House of Commons , would lift the blanket of official secrecy that so often keeps us in the dark . |