Example sentences of "be [adv prt] in the " in BNC.

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1 Now erm I think it is and he rang me up and asked me would the strike still be on in the middle of er February .
2 Erm y'know erm it 's also erm perhaps interesting the way things have er have shifted you know in the last decade or so , like that thing that erm used to be on in the seventies , It Ai n't Half Hot Mum , with um a number of people pretending to be Indians and and exhibiting all the stereotypes y'know it ai n't half racist mum is probably more erm er in fact there was a book called It Ai n't Half Racist Mum that er Leicester University library had er y'know going on about exactly that you know the sort of y'know racism of comedy .
3 ‘ All members of the team are to be down in the lower block , with their kit , half an hour before lock-up …
4 The Marshal and I will be down in the porter 's lodge . ’
5 He seemed more likely to blow a kiss than to throw a punch ; to be at a dinner-table than to be down in the dives ; to be rubbing shoulders than to be shoving or sticking it to the comfortable ( I almost said to the bourgeoisie . )
6 ‘ Now that I 've left the army , I 'll soon be down in the fields with you again , ’ said Troy lightly .
7 They 'll find themselves chartered to carry pig-iron and cheap tin trays , just like everybody else ; and by that time they 'll be down in the South Seas loading rainbows and moonbeams .
8 They must be all done or they would n't be down in the first place would they ?
9 A little while ago children were expected to be down in the mines and underneath textile machinery , so they were n't actually treated as children , they were erm wager earners at a very low age , as soon as they could be walking they were doing a job , so I feel that we 're all children in fact , there is no great division between being a child and being an adult , and we in fact ca n't always cope with what 's happening and the shocks infect .
10 He 's stopping off on the road , he 'll be in in the morning , I … ’
11 " I 'll be along in the morning . "
12 Glasgow High/Kelvinside are hopeful that Shade Munro 's prolonged absence will be over in the New Year .
13 The change has been a major exercise , and while the civil war may not be over in the eyes of the excise collectors , the next issue of Guinness Today will carry the story of the people behind the massive change to End Product Duty .
14 He told them we knew all about it , and said we 'd be over in the morning .
15 The PACE Day Centre near Aylesbury has been using the technique for the last 3 years , but it could all be over in the next couple of days .
16 Try to understand that Pop should be up in the air , supernatural , alive to all angles and shades of emotion , plastic and twice-cooked .
17 She could be at home or she could be up in the wood still .
18 It was wonderful to be up in the air and to feel the air swishing past his face .
19 If it was n't , I 'd be up in the loft poring over old NME s . ’
20 Time they get to about sixteen or seventeen you know they can be up in the top players .
21 I 'll be up in the shed .
22 They 're now even on to the vile Trade Union Reform Bill , they 're accepting it admittedly but but they 're accepting it , but it 's in the wrong Bill it 's in the wrong place it should be up in the front .
23 Sometimes when they were in a needy mood , which was most of the time , David would be out in the lobby at Advision Studios where we were recording , and they would be cuddling and cooing and wooing — it was disgusting .
24 Jack could be out in the field with a ewe and Philip would be a good target , a bobbing torch across the field .
25 In its frosty , stunned isolation , his mind found it quite natural to be out in the wind in this remote place , waiting for a disembodied voice .
26 If the weather was fine and we wanted to be out in the mountains , then we would only work in the evening .
27 Relieved to be out in the open again , I looked for the route up onto the giant hump of Rhossili Down above the village .
28 It will be out in the field , where the people receiving the information can make sensible decisions as to how to act on that information .
29 But we 're working on it , so it should be out in the not too distant future . ’
30 Nearly one third of Britain 's 800,000 sows will be out in the fields by the end of next year , reckons marketing director Bernard Hoggarth .
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