Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Waco : CULT leader David Koresh may be drawing out the 34-day stand-off with federal agents so it ends on a religious holiday and fulfils his prophecies , the FBI said . |
| 2 | It could be traced up the boulder strewn fellside easterly of the beetling Kernal Crag , along and over Thriddle Scar ( in which were ancient workings but little other than trials ) across ground with pits , trials and trenches , made by early miners along its strike , to pass below the northern margin of Levers Water . |
| 3 | Mr Ciampi 's first priority will be to carry out the electoral reforms overwhelmingly endorsed by Italian voters by referendum in mid April . |
| 4 | Following the retirement of Frank Whitehead ( 1982 ) and the early retirement of Alan England ( 1984 ) neither of the posts left vacant has still been filled ; they are unlikely to be filled in the foreseeable future . |
| 5 | It can be heard down the entire High Street . |
| 6 | He said you 'd ne , I used to say to you get on with your work he said and you 'd have a pencil in your mouth he said and you 'd be gazing out the window . |
| 7 | The effect will be to drive up the exchange rate . |
| 8 | Chairs must be placed down the room , back to back , one less in number than the players who gallop round them in time to the music . |
| 9 | Local inhabitants recall that thistles used to be placed down the outside school toilets before the unsuspecting used them ! |
| 10 | Durham County Council has given assurances that a close watch will be kept on the parking situation , especially at the weekends and if it was warranted , yellow lines would be placed down the west side of Lakeside . |
| 11 | yo you know if we had problems we 'd each talk to them and we had of course , we had , we formed a resident association and we took our problems to the resident 's association and and we wo , you know , if we had problems which could be ironed out the man , general manager of the development corporation , Mr would come and listen to our complaints and we seemed , you know , we we got along very very well really for such a small place with nothing because the only shopping facilities were in the old town or we had to go to Epping or Bishop 's Stortford you see ? |
| 12 | ‘ We have to make sure that justice is done , that those who are guilty will be meted out the full penalty , ’ she told reporters after attending a funeral service for a pilot who died wiping out the rebels ' air support in last week 's attempt to overthrow her . |
| 13 | He knew that the howling wind would be whipping up the downfall into deep drifts on the exposed high moor . |
| 14 | ‘ If I did , ’ Mandeville snapped , ‘ the murderer would be hanging on the gibbet at Smithfield ! ’ |
| 15 | " To be bossing up the school . |
| 16 | TWO heartbroken families may be bringing up the wrong babies . |
| 17 | ‘ They 'll be bringing up the squares at any minute . |
| 18 | From Thursday onwards , the influence of Venus will be bringing out the artistic side of you . |
| 19 | In the spring , the same publisher will be bringing out the Mémoires of Charles Perrault , unobtainable since first published in 1906 , with an introduction by Antoine Picon . |
| 20 | But if they were supposed to be keeping up the fiction about being happily married — a second honeymoon , indeed ! — then it was going to look a bit odd , if not downright peculiar , if he did n't spend his nights here in the cottage . |
| 21 | But we will be keeping up the pressure . ’ |
| 22 | They are planning a 100 per cent digital phone system that will enable voice images and data to be carried on the line . |
| 23 | Young may be carried on the snout of the mother if they are in distress ( or stillborn ) , a behaviour that is also sometimes extended to humans in distress . |
| 24 | Pottery materials continued to be carried on the canal until the 1960s . |
| 25 | Mrs Southey had asked Sarah to visit so they could ‘ talk over the American affair ’ , and it may by then have seemed inevitable to Sarah that she too would be carried on the Pantisocratic tide . |
| 26 | The station was filled with hissing steam engines ( well , it was some time back ) and one decided to belch , steam and whistle just as we passed , thus managing to blow the youngest daughter 's mind , who demanded to be carried on the spot — and at frequent intervals during the rest of the adventure . |
| 27 | Perhaps I think it beneath my dignity to let myself be carried on the spontaneous flood , employing my divine gift of reason only to navigate on the course of greatest awareness . |
| 28 | The crew will be volunteers from the Midlands and a special headboard will be carried on the front of the locomotive , one of the Ffestiniog 's unique double engines . |
| 29 | A bar will also be carried on the train . |
| 30 | As the wind begins to build , the boom should continue to be carried on the centreline and you should not attempt to sheet the main using the vang : because the boom is so long , the mainsheet is a more effective control . |