Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [conj] [pron] [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Others had been saying that nobody wore the Party badge any longer in Munich and that ‘ for a long while not a single person had believed anything the Führer had said ’ . |
| 2 | He did n't want to exacerbate what he saw as an existing weakness of his own in that respect , and although he was not censorious of other people , I think he was genuinely quite frightened of it , and at one point in the Arts Lab , when there was quite a lot of speed pills , amphetamines , going around amongst the young people there , he did speak out very strongly one evening against it , saying that he personally did not want anything like that around anything he was closely involved with because he felt that it was not a good thing for people to be speeding and it created the sort of vibes that might end up causing problems . |
| 3 | Encore Computer Corp must be wondering whether it did the right thing in selling the Annex server product line to Xylogics Inc . |
| 4 | I wish to say a few words about what measures we would be considering if we had the misfortune to have a Labour Government . |
| 5 | Yeah but what I 'm saying when we got the thermal boxes you put the stuff in this big fridge er in here |
| 6 | So he s , I said to him is it alright , says am I in danger of coasting if I 've got my foot on the if , if I 'm taking the corner in first and I 'm slipping and I got the clutch , I 'm using the engine but I 've , not much |
| 7 | Outside , the rain which had been falling when they entered the building seemed to have eased . |
| 8 | We filled that and while they were eating that we kept the hay , hay , cut it through a rick , a big thin knife , you know , fill the remainder of the racks with the hay , so that by the time they 'd gone and finished that they 'd gone in to eat the hay , then we 'd got the yard free to litter it out , and to straw it on both sides , one would be on the , one down on the bottom to pull straw down into the yard , and that was . |
| 9 | Stella 's hands were trembling as she held the torch . |
| 10 | I told Cowslip we were going before I left the burrow . " |
| 11 | As they were milling about in front of the camera , Rosie said to her husband , ‘ Just think — at breakfast-time you were saying when we opened the shop , we probably would n't have any customers at all , and here they are , queueing up to have their pictures taken . ’ |
| 12 | Thus it was that both the sun and our faces were shining when we took the telecabin to the top of the nearest mountain and developed a habit which was to stick like glühwein : rösti — a Swiss potato cake , fried , with two eggs on top . |
| 13 | The final result can also be carried back into whatever program you were running before you used the calculator and is printed at the current cursor position . |
| 14 | Mr Lynch , who was described as the instigator of the deal , was told : ‘ You knew full well what you were doing and you relished the consternation and damage being caused . ’ |
| 15 | The dinosaurs were spying as he replaced the book . |
| 16 | Mary 's heart was beating fast and her hands were shaking as she pushed the leaves away and found the key-hole . |
| 17 | And there we were thinking that it passed the 2m mark at the end of last year : IMB Corp says that on the first anniversary of the launch of OS/2 2.0 , it has shipped more than 2m copies , has more than 80 agreements with hardware vendors to package OS/2 on their systems , and that there are now 1,200 applications specifically written for it . |
| 18 | Some of the children were screaming as they watched the tussle going on between the nun and the girl whom they secretly admired and envied because she was n't afraid of the dreaded Sister Mary . |
| 19 | annual increases that some irresponsible Labour-controlled councils were imposing and which had the sole effect of driving businesses out of many of our major inner-city centres . |
| 20 | To invite people in , we 're not , but four of us is going and they buggered the lot . |
| 21 | Whereas restorers in the past speculated on some of the missing elements and snapped in a few flowers here and there , we take the view that if it 's missing when we took the carving down then it will stay missing when we put it back up again . |
| 22 | Now his heart was thumping as he turned the elevating screw past five degrees . |
| 23 | Gasping , momentarily blinded by the water in her eyes , she became conscious of Niall , treading water beside her , of his dark hair , plastered against his head , of his bronzed , naked chest against which her own head was resting as he let the water take her weight , drawing her towards him . |
| 24 | Parks claimed that he was n't even aware of what was happening till he heard the door slam shut as the thieves made their escape . |
| 25 | The debate was revealing because it exposed the core of racism and bigotry beneath the liberal rhetoric of Canada 's much vaunted multiculturalism . |
| 26 | Kelly 's head was swimming as she left the racecourse . |
| 27 | I was passing when I saw the gates not shut properly , so I thought I 'd best come in and see if everything was all right at the house … ’ |
| 28 | Tomorrow they 'll try and put up a sign to ask anyone who was passing if they saw the accident , yeah ? |
| 29 | The Iranian 's hand was trembling as he lifted the handset from its cradle . |
| 30 | Azadi was trembling as he replaced the handset of the telephone . |