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Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] be [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Since Billy 's 'ad that gym on 'is mind 'e 's bin like a cat on 'ot bricks .
2	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 .
3	That Norwegian we were tld about last week is definately having a trial .
4	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 .
5	With the font world in a state of turmoil following the Apple/Microsoft deal it 's time for a few words about maintaining standards .
6	This is wrong because in the Chappy/Wallace partnership it was Wallace as the provider/space creater and Chappy as the main scorer .
7	Lucie began to look nervously around for fear it was part of an ambush by footpads .
8	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 .
9	" Whatever it was you said to him has caused him to cancel the work I was doing for him .
10	By going to the household I was kind of taking the salt ; I was realistically enhancing my prospects of survival .
11	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 .
12	No wonder she 's bundle of nerves .
13	The seniors did five laps and after one circuit it was Martin in the lead by six seconds .
14	See a chap at work he 's sort of day dream , you 'll be talking to him and he 's miles away
15	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 .
16	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 .
17	After a few drinks Shildon had mentioned the work he was doing for Eliot .
18	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 .
19	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 .
20	Every winter it 's touch down America for the RAF Falcons in Oxfordshire .
21	Which had apparently been a a steam There had been a steam engine turning this er mill crushing mill and er er I remember there was a name in in this engine it was Queen of the Valley .
22	and the course she was dynamite on the course , she was cruising on the course
23	Oh , it is the landscape gardeners and a very nice job they 're doing of it .
24	Christina Muir : ‘ Coming from a small boarding school evacuated and decimated by the war it was paradise to be with girls with intellectual interests .
25	So using the default palette as the basis it is time for change .
26	Yes at the moment he 's sort of he he 's the lone ranger is n't he Collimore .
27	Another moment it 's retouch with a decorator 's brush , load every rift with pigment , and so on .
28	erm actually I do n't mean for a gipsy site it 's sort of two people have applied to have ordinary caravans there , like holiday caravans , etc .
29	All over town it 's time for church-going .
30	Prior to the Restoration he was councillor of state in January and February of 1660 , and he was subsequently elected to the Cavalier Parliament of 1661 as one of four MPs for London .