Example sentences of "[vb base] [be] [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm up then you can turn round when the smaller people come and say are carving up the price , you can turn round and say , Oh no they 're not that 's the price and that 's the price . |
| 2 | What in fact they want is to find out the basis upon which the plaintiff is making the claim , to tie the plaintiff down to a particular set of allegations before the engineer goes in . |
| 3 | It also means that if one photographer you know and like is booked up the other one will probably be free to work with you . |
| 4 | … my job is as a musician in education , not a teacher of music , … because I feel that one of the essential jobs that we do is bring out the music , or help out the music that 's already there … not imposing musical ideas upon kids , whether they 're classical , traditional , ethnic , Hungarian or whatever . |
| 5 | What we intend is to take up the area of ground you now have roped off , or a part of it — the broken corner of the hypocaust . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Yes , and they 've been reading up the stuff for years . |
| 7 | Now they 've been digging up the garden to make a channel for all electricity to go underground you see . |
| 8 | ‘ We 've been working out the date for the party , ’ Frau Nordern said , producing an enormous desk diary . |
| 9 | Mind you , I 've been keeping up the ice dance so all the canals are frozen and he ca n't get a match to fish , ’ joked Dave , who runs Midlands Angling Products . |
| 10 | Despite it all , though , you may end up looking a bit foolish if you find you 've been barking up the wrong tree . |
| 11 | Now rugby union 's league season is coming to the final fences … three games to go and there 's better news of Gloucester … the Cherry and Whites who 've been fighting off the threat of relegation all season won at Northampton on saturday and should be safe … |
| 12 | EURO Disney may be officially opening tomorrow , but tens of thousands of guests and Disney employees have been trying out the rides this week . |
| 13 | The Family Division of the High Court has jurisdiction to hear public law cases which have been transferred up the court system or issued at High Court level . |
| 14 | They were always a big league band in the States , but it 's only in the last five years or so that they have been rising up the Euro league . |
| 15 | Mothers of younger and younger children have been taking on the dual burden of paid work and child rearing ( see Hunt , 1968 ; Martin and Roberts , 1984 ; Joshi , 1985 ) . |
| 16 | Cricket now … the amateur players of the Minor Counties have been taking on the game 's elite in the first round of the Nat West Trophy . |
| 17 | ‘ As a consequence of these deaths , the very highest levels have been cranking up the troops to find who did this . ’ |
| 18 | There and in its environs , this week , have been played out the shows of Kenneth Baker as Kenneth Branagh , Michael Heseltine as Alvin Stardust , and Geoffrey Howe as Geoffrey Howe . |
| 19 | Now I want you to imagine you have been digging up the garden , ready for planting . |
| 20 | 20 years after Joan Main disappeared , police officers have been digging up the garden of her former husband 's house . |
| 21 | Hundreds of kites have been brightening up the skies at a national kite festival . |
| 22 | Once the communications parameters have been set up the whole process is very simple and , so far as is possible , completely error-free . |
| 23 | The Russian authorities have been playing down the severity of an explosion at the secret Tomsk-7 reprocessing plant in Siberia . |
| 24 | Well over 400 individual environmental measures have been taken over the past 12 months to deliver our commitments , ranging from telephone helplines for those concerned about air quality to major international agreements on new standards for cars and water . |
| 25 | Erm , but , having been supported by each chief officer and general manager , you will see in paragraph eleven of the report , the various actions that have been taken over the last twelve months or so , and I would like to pick out particular the fact , that chief officers are now , operating or required to have effective arrangements for achieving equal opportunity in employment in their department or unit . |
| 26 | Madam Deputy Speaker I re read in the newspapers today that there has been s some criticism er that the matters such as this have been taken on the floor of the house . |
| 27 | ‘ Quite a number of our staff live in Wimbledon and some practical jokers have been putting up the other Graham Hadley 's pamphlets , ’ he says . |
| 28 | As this representation is difficult for the draughtsman to interpret , mesh lines have been inserted down the front and side view axis ( to give Figure 6.23 ) . |
| 29 | Technological developments have been used down the ages to fragment jobs and de-skill workers , they claim . |
| 30 | He has now undergone a total of 10 operations , of which five have been to straighten up the three remaining toes on his left foot . |