Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] be [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I expect that the people who made them were influenced by the Labour party 's ’ Standard No. 17 ’ , which was circulated among people in the area . |
| 2 | Ways of using them are discussed in the next three chapters . |
| 3 | The sick who had no one to tend them were spread through the inner , inhabited core of the city , in the monasteries , in the hospice of the Knights of St John with their double chapels . |
| 4 | ‘ What sometimes appear to be new strategies decentralisation , management by objectives , consultative supervision , ‘ democratic ’ leadership are usually but old wine in new bottles , because the procedures derived to implement them are derived from the same inadequate assumptions about human nature … |
| 5 | On the island of Rhum for example , there was talk of introducing a pack of timber wolves when sufficient tree cover to support them was achieved at the end of an extensive planting programme by the Nature Conservancy Council . |
| 6 | Instinctively I turned away , and then I realized I was walking in the opposite direction , then running , almost tripping over my own two flat feet . |
| 7 | Do I think I am going to the bank at the same time as I say I am going to the bank ? |
| 8 | She did n't think I was going to the loo . |
| 9 | Kicking and struggling I was forced to the floor and lay there , face down , while three boys sat on top of me and others pulled my shoes off . |
| 10 | But as I left my car and started to go into the house it was then that I realised I was falling under the spell of this Englishwoman who had been such a delightful and charming companion that day . ’ |
| 11 | I mean I was reading in the paper the other day it was on about recycling |
| 12 | I mean I 'm going on the on the opinion that full function 'll come back and I 'll be able to do any work that I was doing before , and there 'll be no change at all . |
| 13 | There are any number of things that could go wrong and the only way to discover them is to discuss with the parents exactly what they did . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , the models of chemistry remained rather imperfect , and substantial advances in understanding them were made in the third quarter of the nineteenth century . |
| 15 | I 'm not an expert fighter and I did n't know I was going over the top . |
| 16 | When he used to chase his tail and I remember I was walking I was walking round the shops with him and there 's this big alsatian and Roly was giving it cos you know how scared he was of dogs it was barking at him ! |
| 17 | I say I am going to the bank . |
| 18 | Do I think I am going to the bank at the same time as I say I am going to the bank ? |
| 19 | Now what actually happens , now as I say I 'm going to the far end , your casualty may literally shriek as they go down , now this is the person that has no warning at all , they may shriek as they go down and it 's the air that 's coming out of the body , they will go rigid as every muscle clenches , the teeth clench , the muscles go rigid , erm and they 're going to be very , very blue because erm , because er they 've stopped breathing which seems like an eternity . |
| 20 | She also mentioned I was going to the dentist next week ( correct ) , I would travel often ( debatable ) and that I would still end up with a lot of money ( probably wrong ) . |
| 21 | A general waiver has been granted by the Council to permit the establishment of staff bonus schemes which make payments to employees calculated by reference to the gross fee income or net profits of the firm ; which are open to all employees subject only to a short ( maximum three years ) qualifying period ; where the basis of distribution ( length of service , proportionate to salary etc ) is disclosed to the staff , but where the actual level of profits or income need not be so disclosed ; and where no distribution is permitted which is related to the introduction of business . |
| 22 | The slide away that many people accept as being inevitable is based on a number of assumptions we are conditioned to accept which are reinforced by the comments of others . |
| 23 | No costs may be claimed which were incurred before the relevant date set out in the Grant Offer Letter . |
| 24 | Harris fell foul of Heston 's neurosis about actors who arrive late on the set , and found himself being reprimanded by the man who personified Moses to most moviegoers . |
| 25 | In temperate countries an acute syndrome of severe diarrhoea and death in young ponies in the spring has been reported which is associated with the simultaneous mass emergence of trichoneme L4 from the intestinal mucosa and submucosa . |
| 26 | For a moment it looked as if Evans might resist , then he let himself be led to the sofa where he sat down quietly with his head between his hands and began to cry . |
| 27 | Without another word , he let himself be led into the sitting room . |
| 28 | Cashiers ' keys which identify the cashier or shift which is printed on the folios ( bills ) vouchers and audit journals . |
| 29 | ‘ Does she know you 're connected with the college ? ’ |
| 30 | It was not known if Koos van der Merwe , an advocate of the negotiations process who was expelled from the CP in April [ see p. 38850 ] , had joined to the new party . |