Example sentences of "be [verb] [pron] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you look down , when you are seeing it in on the television pictures , you look down from an aerial view . |
| 2 | After a disastrous period of neglect when Glaswegians preferred Costa del Sol to this island of Bute abounding ‘ in pleasing scenes ’ , the ‘ stately hotels ’ and ‘ comfortable villas ’ , though older and a bit worn , are sprucing themselves up as the visitors , still almost exclusively Glaswegian , are coming back . |
| 3 | They have put forward their nine-year coach Laurie Mains , and are winding themselves up to the point of wanting him as coach , first-up . |
| 4 | When they come back into work , begin feeding the highfat/performance-type diet about six weeks in advance while you are training them up for the extra work ahead . |
| 5 | While you 've been living it up in the lap of luxury — ’ |
| 6 | We will include this poem : I 've been saving it up for the right occasion . ’ |
| 7 | In other words a good mirror signal manoeuvre routine , however you apply it but in a particular order , which gives a discipline , so that you 're keeping yourselves out of the problems that other people may give you if you allow them to . |
| 8 | Cos she 's gone mad and they put it on her , right , and they , they 're holding her and they 're tapping out of the stage sidewards and she 's sort of like going like this , she , she , thinks all these nice men 'll love me and then like at the end of the show you see them , they 're tapping her out of the studio and putting her into a van and she 's still wearing a straight jacket and smiling at you . |
| 9 | No wonder they 're sending him over to the mad house for th ’ electric . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ We 're taking you down to the Pacific for a bathe , ’ I told her . |
| 11 | You write to an imaginary friend , you 're inviting him down for the summer holidays and you say all that , all about the sort of things that you 're planning to do with them , make it up |
| 12 | They 're warming us up for the next attack . ’ |
| 13 | they 're putting it down in the paper that |
| 14 | And you say , today we 're , tonight we 're talking you over to the hub and we 're going to show you all this , and I take them and get over there about ten o'clock , and we go along there to , to look at the , the slats and the trays and there are all these masters flying around being terribly excited about this , terrific noises , and they say , God this is great , but how many parcels will go through tonight ? |
| 15 | I mean , they 're , they 're , actually , they 're creaming it off at the moment . |
| 16 | They 're trying me out at the school Phil goes to — to see if I can manage . |
| 17 | ‘ They 're trying it on with the application . |
| 18 | They 'd been feeding it down at the where they give the horses |
| 19 | We also asked if we could get the same consultation period because they are breaking it up at the four sites and some sites will get thirty days ' notice others will get the ninety days . |
| 20 | Interviewed in the trade union newspaper Trud , Pavlov claimed that ( unnamed ) banks in Switzerland , Austria and Canada had co-operated with non-governmental Soviet organizations to buy large-denomination rouble notes in massive quantities on the black market , and had been smuggling them out of the country . |
| 21 | He does n't talk to me much now because I 'm afraid I 've been the one who 's been tipping him out of the church when he 's smoking . |
| 22 | ‘ That 's why they 're common in the fire service and the army , where people are doing something out of the ordinary and taking greater risks than others . |
| 23 | Her mother identified it as a wayfaring tree and she 'd been cutting it back during the summer and it did n't seem to mind but she 'd be very grateful for any information about the wayfaring tree which presumably she 'd like to keep and continue to grow in her garden . |
| 24 | and she 's been letting me off for the keep . |
| 25 | In a kindly voice ( for which , later , he felt like smacking her ) , she said , ‘ I think you are mixing me up with the child our mother had in the late 1930s . ’ |
| 26 | Whether the two little fighting men are pricing themselves out of the market remains to be seen but both were threatening a stand-off . |
| 27 | Well a cos then you can pick them up altogether if , are you with me , if you 're doing the rounds for your friends cos some of them 'll be on there and some 'll be Pick them up from the front , it 's just that some of the stuff will be at the front and some of it wo n't . |
| 28 | And I hope we 'll be seeing you back on the field soon . |
| 29 | They 'll be easing me on as the new presenter so as not to put too much pressure on me . |
| 30 | I hope , and I shall be bringing it up at the next police committee , that we will commit ourselves to that initiative will a view to bringing in those two pilot schemes in the county and extending it at a later date . |