Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [noun sg] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | I know dad , dad put that little fox or something , has he been putting stuff out for the |
| 5 | ‘ If you are putting money in to the stock market , there are other , rather more attractive , areas in which to invest , ’ one dealer added . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Two children were squirting water on to the cars that passed . |
| 9 | at the same place er we were putting machinery in after the war , you know |
| 10 | 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 … |
| 11 | Well is that fetching I mean is that a is that the routine that 's picking information back from the lexicon or something ? |
| 12 | ‘ What I 'm doing is dragging pool up by the scruff of the neck : it 's gon na be shaken clean . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | To extrapolate from the fact that some forms of literacy practice develop explicitness to a theory that literacy is intrinsically capable of being culture-free and therefore represents an evolutionary advance in intellectual power , as some of the writers we have been examining do , is to take literacy out of the very context that enabled it to develop explicitness . |
| 16 | And the next thing he know he remembers he 's hanging upside down with a half feet around his the chain had slipped 't was round his ankle and he was hanging upside down in the dark twenty feet from the ground . |
| 17 | Detectives say they have no idea what was stolen because the million-pound villa in a suburb of Rome was turned upside down in the Boxing Day burglary . |
| 18 | On looking around he was staring at us , no doubt wondering what I was doing marching along with the French Commandos . |