Example sentences of "[noun prp] is [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now that a reaction is setting in , Mr Gorbachev is leaning back towards the conservatives to keep his balance . |
| 2 | It is time to go downstairs , to see how Deirdre is getting on in the kitchen , to make sure the butlers are not drinking too much . |
| 3 | RINGO Starr is going back on the road , but unlike his fellow former Beatle , George Harrison , his performances will have nothing to do with Transcendental Meditation , writes James Delingpole , Arts Correspondent . |
| 4 | There is a strong thriller element to the novel , particularly in the last part , in which Piero is tracked down by the agents of what is portrayed as something close to a police or military state in the underground corridors of the prison-like block of flats where Charles lives and the fugitive has been hiding . |
| 5 | Lij Yasu is camped out in the bush with only five Abyssinians in his retinue ; while in the neighbouring villages are various messengers from the government and from provincial chiefs who dare not approach to deliver their letters for fear of the flogging with which anyone who disturbs him is threatened . |
| 6 | In April each of the canes seen protruding starkly from the ground in February is cut back to the second bud and stakes are planted for their support . |
| 7 | Frank is driven out in the darkest darkness in Leeds , but he got a golden oppurtunity when he was selected for Drillos squad to play USA [ and Costa Rica — killers of Sweden in last WC for those who remember — my comm. ] later this month . |
| 8 | Like Abingdon , Kemble is handing over to the army . |
| 9 | The man who spotted it says it 's inaccessible without proper equipment so Mr Scales is getting through to the coastguards , sir . ’ |
| 10 | Lothar de Maizière of the CDU is sworn in at the head of a grand coalition government [ pp. 37378-80 ] . |
| 11 | Group managing director Tom Hempenstall is moving up to the new post of chief executive . |
| 12 | Mr you 'll spoi you 'll spoil us when I saw this tonight I thought we I got ta say something because Martin is coming up with the er same motion as it was last time , it was not much different so probably with the same reply 's got ta be made and that is that the Labour party is not the caring party , everyone here , I 'm sure the Liberals as well as the Conservatives care we are a caring party as much as you are and we are concerned , we are concerned about , we are concerned about |
| 13 | So John Broome is switching on to the green , green grass of home . |
| 14 | DOOR-to-door brooms and buckets seller Betterware is cleaning up in the recession . |
| 15 | Eighty per cent of the weight of a 450 gram standard SL is taken up by the ballast . |
| 16 | Mr Sugar is ploughing on with the rationalisation announced last year . |
| 17 | De Craon is snuffling about for the juicier morsels , then it 's back to Paris and heigh ho for Rome and our Holy Father . ’ |
| 18 | This for Lévi-Strauss is tied up with the business of ‘ science ’ , which aims to discover truths that are universal and that can be seen to be a product of their method . |
| 19 | He describes how Sonya is driven out onto the streets by her step-mother 's gibe — ‘ Why not ? |
| 20 | The Soren Larsen is heading out of the docks bound for Auckland in New Zealand . |
| 21 | There is bound to be considerable upheaval among the blue-chip client list which Deloitte UK is bringing over to the new firm . |
| 22 | The ITV companies rely on advertising revenue for their funds , while the BBC is funded out of the licence lee which must be paid by all those who possess a television receiver . |
| 23 | Jordan is catching up with the Western world . |
| 24 | Joey Beauchamp and Jim Magilton … there 's speculation that Brian Horton is coming back to the Manor with his Manchester City cheque book let's ask him |
| 25 | His view of the Christ is summed up in the divine song called the ‘ Nunc Dimittis ’ ( Luke 2:29–32 ) . |
| 26 | KEVIN McGARRITY is going back to the British Vauxhall Lotus championship — and back to the team he quit midway through last season . |
| 27 | DESPITE the confirmation by the Irish-owned Jordan Formula One team that Marco Apicella will replace Thierry Boutsen in Sunday 's Italian Grand Prix at Monza , Ulster driver Eddie Irvine is standing by in the wings to take over later in the season . |
| 28 | Now he then comes on in the second part of the report to look at the fourteen great achievements and I mean two things A what are those achievements and do those achievements back up and support these kinds of very general maybe propaganda kind of stances that Mao is taking up in the first part of this report . |
| 29 | Transport Secretary Cecil Parkinson is hitting out at the dirty habits of the British public ; he says mountains of litter dumped along motorways is forcing the government to spend £3 million a year cleaning it up . |
| 30 | I am determined that the highest and most stringent safety requirements should be adhered to , and the regulatory bodies must be satisfied that any work done at Dounreay is carried out to the highest standards . |