Example sentences of "[vb base] [be] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our sales staff would be pleased to discuss your requirements and the many new concepts Interglass are working on towards the year 2000 . |
| 2 | ‘ Richmond 's complaint is based on what they say was shown up by the video . |
| 3 | Je t'aime : a different procedure , with the subject and object being got out of the way first , so that the long vowel of adoration can be savoured to the full . |
| 4 | Otherwise ACT is written off in the profit and loss account . |
| 5 | because I , the doctors I work for they have opted out , they are what they call it fund holding , they 've got their own budget , they 've got a , they 've got a practice manager and its run as a business and they look at every thing and any profits that they get are ploughed back into the G P's surgery and er , and they improve the surgery facilities for the patience , and it will be a better service , but I mean how can Labour come in and then say right you 're not doing that , how can they undo it |
| 6 | One of them bears a close anatomical resemblance to the marble copies we have after the bronze statues of the Tyrannicides by Kritios and Nesiotes which we know were set up in the Agora , the city centre north-west of the Acropolis , in 477 . |
| 7 | I am acutely conscious that I have been a source of aggravation to Pa recently over my stupid allergy to vegetables ; it can not be pleasant to see the products one has slaved over summer and winter being regurgitated on to the dinner plate of one 's elder child . |
| 8 | So I told them what I would do , but once again I 've never been in the situation but this is what I 'll do , said as if they were me own parents make them as comfortable as I could while I 'll cleaned up and give them a bed bath or if they could shower , shower them and erm and get everything back to normal as quick as possible , fine , that were all fine she , and then as , as I got up from it they all said thanks a lot Joy it has been great you really have been great you 've made it easy , we 've got an easy day in front thanks to you , you know you 're bubbly and all this and then when she phoned me on the Sunday she said hello Joy it 's Sue here and I , I said will you let me know one way or the another cos I said I hate being left up in the air |
| 9 | ‘ I love being spied on by the enemy , ’ I mutter , and turn my face the other way . |
| 10 | A check-list that would make a modern bird-watcher salivate was served up on the Elizabethan menu : ‘ the-food of heroes , fit for the palates of the great ’ , as Camden describes pewits , godwits , knot , and dotterel . |
| 11 | They 're just doing us out of money that we 've been saving up over the years . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've been catching up on the week 's news , and who do I find hitting the headlines yet again ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ We 've been slowed down by the lack of a new engine but we 've found a good engine in the second pack they sent us — it needs a couple of hours of work on minor jobs , but if everything goes well we should have something ready for out-inspection later this afternoon . |
| 14 | I 've been called in to the Museum during the night or at weekends for a variety of reasons . |
| 15 | ‘ Never , but I 've been reading up on the history . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I 've been fed up for the last few years and people have been telling me I am in danger of wasting my time . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've been tuned in to the local station , ’ he said shortly . |
| 18 | I also wonder how the system copes with changes to people 's incomes , er many people particularly in recession we heard that unemployment in Cambridge is now approaching ten percent and if you 've been turned down by the council , your council housing on your means test are you really going to go back to them at a time when you may be under a lot of stress with unemployment to have your circumstances reinvestigated , I very much doubt whether people do go back . |
| 19 | Also over here in the new year are URGE OVERKILL , who 've been spurred on by the success of their last two singles , ‘ Faroutski ’ and ‘ Ticket to LA' . |
| 20 | Also over here in the new year are URGE OVERKILL , who 've been spurred on by the success of their last two singles , ‘ Faroutski ’ and ‘ Ticket to LA' . |
| 21 | Er , you 've been fiddling about at the back where it breaks yeah , did you tell Ken ? |
| 22 | I ca n't of course foretell er what 's gon na happen in Eastern Europe , but looking externally er at the lower interest rates and the er more competitive value of the pound and internally at the improved cash flow and the actions that we 've been taking over for the past couple of years and I can say that there 's now generally a more optimistic feeling in the air amongst our group companies . |
| 23 | It 's like I 've been dragged out of the pub and into a bloody video nasty . |
| 24 | I 've been dragged in by the Old Bill twice and your pet grizzly bear Nevil is making life very uncomfortable for people I know . |
| 25 | I ca n't believe it , I 've been slagging off for the three weeks this is crap , this is really naff . |
| 26 | No-one 's wanted to have a punt and we 've been scrambling about for the odd winner . |
| 27 | No I 've been picked out by the British Market Research Bureau |
| 28 | Mind you the best ones would be by er those ones they 've been selling off to the highest offer . |
| 29 | It 's essential to erm , to what you 've been going through in the last , in the last few lectures . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've been going out with the same person for five years , ’ he reveals . |