Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only five survivors of Woking 's 1990-91 heroes are expected to feature tonight — Buzaglo , Mark Biggins , Trevor Baron and Wye brothers Shane and Lloyd — but they will be roared on by a 6,000 capacity crowd . |
| 2 | To travel through Ireland without visiting a pub would be to miss out on a huge chunk of Irish life . |
| 3 | The people who are seizing and occupying the present time can not belong in my colour , they 're like the bits that leap out of a spinning bowl , too heavy , too separate and distinct to be blended in with the other substances ; red-hot stones , flung out and setting on fire the place where they land . |
| 4 | Our excitement would rise ; soon we knew the names ; on the left the Lawley and Caradoc , on the right the Longmynd , and in two minutes we would be drawing up at the nerve centre Church Stretton . |
| 5 | They have , they will be drawing back on most things . |
| 6 | A whole set of disagreements on trade , notably over North American free trade and the GATT , could be smoothed over under that rubric : to be open and unbelligerent on trade is not weak-minded , but is in America 's interests . |
| 7 | But without that pride the Spaniard would not be Spanish , as Harvey writes : ‘ It is profoundly to be hoped that he will never allow these sharp angles to be smoothed off by the modern cult of ‘ all things to all men' ’ , and a false catholicity of taste which is no taste at all . |
| 8 | An over-ambitious social physics , albeit statistically sophisticated , would give an oddly flat theory of social relationships precisely because unique , yet meaningful , patterns would be smoothed out under general statistical laws . |
| 9 | The main purpose of the costings for the latter years is to identify probable peaks and troughs in the overall programme , which can be smoothed out by phasing in major projects so as to avoid clashes . |
| 10 | And now the intimate clothes which she had put on so unthinkingly on the day of her death would be smoothed out by strange hands , scrutinised under ultra-violet light , perhaps be handed up , neatly docketed , to the judge and jury in the Crown Court . |
| 11 | All these ruffles should be smoothed out after a few days . |
| 12 | This is especially true of black women writers , who tend to be plucked out of context to lend a splash of colour to a pallid white landscape — like a single exotic flower among drab , overwatered shrubs . |
| 13 | I think we 'll get together , Peter Davis , with with the Districts on that particular point , as far as the previous point erm madam , erm then you can rest assured that er the County Surveyor will be rousted out of his dinner tonight er erm when I get back , with a view to er providing the information that you require . |
| 14 | The voucher holders , who also hold a gold card , will be queueing up at Roker Park for their tickets throughout this week . |
| 15 | ‘ The stalwarts will be queueing up for their jog round the deck . ’ |
| 16 | Proponents of the scheme believe the fans would form artificial tornadoes of polluted air , which would be propelled up through the thermal inversion " cap " . |
| 17 | There can be few people in football who do not think Flashman should be turfed out of Barnet at the earliest opportunity . |
| 18 | It is intolerable that Labour MPs who are also accountable to all the voters in their town should be turfed out by the block vote . |
| 19 | The area is thought to be inhabited by about 2,500 polar bears . |
| 20 | But if anyone else believes that all that 's consumed in the Sedgefield council chairman 's room is tea and biscuits they must be stoned out of their tiny little brains . |
| 21 | Marilyn has worked with Douglas Reyburn for just over a year as time keeper , but because of her clerical skills will also be helping out in the office when leave is taken by others . |
| 22 | Your supposed to be sticking up for me love ! |
| 23 | Fig. 1 ( h ) As the pool fills , the stones should be eased off at intervals to allow the liner to fit snugly into the contours of the excavation . |
| 24 | Vivien 's good idea became a big-budget shambles , and Spellbound seemed to be eased out of the second series . |
| 25 | was tut-tutting that we should n't be using out of er Stansted airport , they should be jets |
| 26 | Anyhow , whatever it was , maybe a little , as Jan says , he also had a f a bad flu bug at a bad time anyhow he crashed out of the computer science course and he announced that he was only regarding the computer science course as being a stepping stone to being a teacher so the sensible thing to do would be to go on to the teacher training course at Lancashire , an education course , cos that 's what he wanted to do . |
| 27 | The only way to reverse what the hon. Gentleman alleges would be to go back to the sort of tax rates that we had under the last Labour Government — 83 and 98 per cent . |
| 28 | She told herself that the best thing she could do would be to go out of the house and climb up to where the buzzards and the ravens nested on the clifftop , but she did n't pay herself much attention . |
| 29 | Frightened as much by her own emotional weakness as by the almost dangerous , threatening atmosphere which seemed to be building up between them , she was beginning to feel like some poor rabbit caught in a trap . |
| 30 | I 'll engage to pull down in three hours what you 'll be building up in as many years , in spite of all the lessons you can teach her . |