Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [noun] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Crew members are tearing dolphins out of the net and dumping them on the deck with little or no attention to whether they are alive or dead . |
| 2 | The mother of an incontinent daughter , who had been lent money out of the DSS Social Fund to buy a washing machine , had the machine removed by a bailiff . |
| 3 | Like , we get literally hundreds of calls on Friday and Saturday nights and we 're sending vehicles out to the same thing every time . |
| 4 | We 're taking people on in the copy group and we 've got twenty years ' worth of adverts . |
| 5 | On the A forty-three in Oxfordshire , just north of Enstone , some temporary traffic lights there are holding drivers up for the resurfacing work that 's going on there — a little bit of extra care should be taken . |
| 6 | And so quite a big job has been cutting reeds back around the islands and the banks , and also we 've had what they call blooms of blanketweed , not so much recently but , apparently it 's more common with new ponds and I had a tremendous bloom of blanketweed the first year after I made it . |
| 7 | If there 's a dinner or special occasion like the installation of the Chancellor , she might be bringing wine up from the stores , overseeing the table lay-out , arranging flowers , scheming the candles and napkins . |
| 8 | Tory agent Kathy Lever said : ‘ Our vote is holding up well and we will be going flat out over the next ten days to win over the undecided voters . ’ |
| 9 | She feels the union has been ineffectual and even the so-called industrial action four years ago when members refused to set or mark exam papers seemed , quite unjustifiably , to be taking things out on the students . |
| 10 | ‘ You 've been handing weapons out to the Serbs for months . ’ |
| 11 | In practice , the photographic process is usually much more complicated and involves separate runs with the red , green and blue separation positives ; that is , a minimum of six , to be multiplied in turn by the number of mattes ( if several rather than one are involved figures up in the thirties are not uncommon ) In practice also , matte lines may mark the joins too visibly . |
| 12 | The good reasons are that these projects have not been chucking people out into the community " willy-nilly " . |
| 13 | I know dad , dad put that little fox or something , has he been putting stuff out for the |
| 14 | ‘ If you are putting money in to the stock market , there are other , rather more attractive , areas in which to invest , ’ one dealer added . |
| 15 | It was what , seventy eight percent over all , and in , and in a large , very large individual constituencies you were seeing turn out in the eighties . |
| 16 | Their world is being turned upside down by the cable revolution and the string of multimedia technologies coming down the pike , but US telephone companies — both local and long-distance — will maintain strong credit quality throughout the 1990s despite major competitive , regulatory and technological challenges , Moody 's Investors Service Inc concludes in its annual report on the industry . |
| 17 | Two children were squirting water on to the cars that passed . |
| 18 | Watchmen were dragging bodies out of the room downstairs . |
| 19 | at the same place er we were putting machinery in after the war , you know |
| 20 | I buy everything from him but I 've got to buy another tumble dryer erm I 've been drying clothes off in the house and the three men and all them well two of them wearing work wear jeans and the next one that comes in will be wearing jeans , it 's no go I just can not dry stuff off in the house , I 've just got to have a tumble . |
| 21 | they have to beg and borrow all the local pools they can to keep going … and yet their success is helping swindon on to the top board of swimming … |
| 22 | IBM has been driven into the System V camp by customer demands in the US federal government and the telecommunications industry , and the IBM Federal Systems Co is helping Harris out with the work . |
| 23 | IBM has been driven into the SVR4 camp by customer demands in the US federal government and the telecommunications industry , and the IBM Federal Systems Co is helping Harris out with the work . |
| 24 | Well is that fetching I mean is that a is that the routine that 's picking information back from the lexicon or something ? |
| 25 | ‘ One of the things we have been working on is getting men back behind the ball , ’ he said and when Stanger did just that in retrieving a kick-ahead from Nadroga , Nicol , Appleson ( twice ) and Turnbull , too , made sure the winger was not in isolation , for Ian Corcoran to boot on delicately and claim a grand try , Appleson converting . |
| 26 | ‘ One of the things we have been working on is getting men back behind the ball , ’ he said and when Stanger did just that in retrieving a kick-ahead from Nadroga , Nicol , Appleson ( twice ) and Turnbull , too , made sure the winger was not in isolation , for Ian Corcoran to boot on delicately and claim a grand try , Appleson converting . |
| 27 | ‘ What I 'm doing is dragging pool up by the scruff of the neck : it 's gon na be shaken clean . ’ |
| 28 | The final point is taking money out of the reserves to make sure that we do n't have to put back twenty two pounds on the council tax . |
| 29 | Yeah , but you 've got ta me , do n't forget we 've got fitted wardrobes , so it 's going by it 's taking space off for the wardrobe . |
| 30 | ‘ He 's making bundles out of the money business , is n't he ? ’ |