Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they can count the number of times they 've been to see Elvis the Musical ; 38 to date and it will be forty by the end of the week . |
| 2 | Moreover , the impetus had been given t the establishment — under the direction , for England , of A. H. Halsey — of five action research programmes , to be initiated in 1968 and completed within three years . |
| 3 | The Health and Safety at Work Act and the singular dedication of engineers and politicians are denying children the right to grow up as children . |
| 4 | Gaston , the committee man , who had been eyeing Ingrid the entire evening , trying to discern if she was wearing anything at all under the gold waistcoat , hurried over and pulled her to her feet . |
| 5 | And they found one tent which had been King Yucef 's ; never man saw so noble a thing as that tent was ; and there were great riches therein , and there also did they find Alvar Salvadores , who had been made prisoner the yesterday , as ye have heard . |
| 6 | Already we 're seeing sector the er , those er new independent colleges coming along and saying do you recognize , er G M B and er during the single union agreement with UNISON and we 've got ta get our act together cos the only with thing that 's going on , we 're seeing local authorities getting smashed up and we 're seeing UNISON which will be going right across the board . |
| 7 | But he said er , and I said that I gather you 're seeing Lynda the weekend if you do find anything perhaps you could pass it on to her . |
| 8 | Perhaps they 're doing pass the parcel like . |
| 9 | ‘ We 're offering people the chance to build a Road to Health for the Northern region . |
| 10 | The cadets on Academy guard duty are patrolling the grounds ; those with enough money and energy are heading fur the bright lights . |
| 11 | The most important aspect of this work has been to give women the information they need to choose the method they prefer . |
| 12 | A week ago her plan had been to give Travis the slip and catch the first flight out . |
| 13 | ‘ The heavy rain after the dry weather we 've been having makes the roads more slippery , and drivers should slow down accordingly . |
| 14 | Going for gold in the world rowing championships are the Henley pair of Steve Redgrave and Matthew Pinsent … they 've been cruising thro the early heats … |
| 15 | The facts though are clear : Kleon in the fifth century and Demosthenes in the fourth are found tin the Council in specially exciting years for foreign affairs , 427 and 346 , the years of the Mytilene Debate and the Peace of Philokrates respectively ( pp. 130 , 253 ) . |
| 16 | You 've been doing things the same way for years and you know you can get things across , but … |
| 17 | It 's just that you 've been doing things the same way for ten plus years and it 's second nature . |
| 18 | And there , in exactly the manner I have recommended for putting in clues in the traditional whodunit , Hammett gives his readers their clue , full-out and in the open but made to look as if it was there as part of the particularly laconic , cool conversation the two men are having over the newly-slain body . |
| 19 | They are giving Loulou the Légion d'Honneur , you have n't heard ? |
| 20 | So if I 'd still been giving Clive the best part of my days , occasions for dalliance would have been rare and risky . |
| 21 | Forensic scientists are examining banknotes the three used to pay for a meal at a restaurant just yards from the depot where Ashiq was killed . |
| 22 | Spenser at this stage is establishing his own claims to rational soundness by having Eudoxus , with his common sense English perspective , be seen marginalising the apocalyptic claims of Irenius . |
| 23 | There 's still plenty of hard work to be done keeping the Victorian rose garden in shape — it 's taken a battering by recent heavy rain , but will be in full bloom again soon . |
| 24 | But Ben was already planning a children 's opera with William Plomer to be called Tyco the Vegan . |
| 25 | The aim of the Thatcherite reforms to the public services is said to be to give consumers the power to go elsewhere if they are not satisfied . |
| 26 | Of Sir Leon 's aims , the hardest to realise will be to give people the right to join a foreign fund . |
| 27 | I wondered for a moment about this strange near-miss , and what a trout might be doing crossing the road , until I saw a fisherman standing aside , who can only have dropped his slippery catch on the roadway and was waiting to recapture it . |
| 28 | And there was a lot of luck in life : some people would go to jail for badger-baiting ; but if they 'd baited just the foxes they 'd like as not be having sherry the next day with the Master of the Foxhounds . |
| 29 | Of course , Madame Duvalle will come over every month to see that I 'm doing things the right way and Monsieur Félix intends to spend quite a lot of time in London . |
| 30 | With a view to aiding the assessment of a patient 's progress there are a few simple guidelines that can be followed ; for cure to be taking place the disease should go from within to without , from organs of greater importance to lesser importance , from above to below and to disappear in the reverse order to their original appearance . |