Example sentences of "[pron] [is] [prep] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Members can buy their tickets from tomorrow … while other fans can get their 's by going to the next home game against Sunderland |
| 2 | Probably the most useful recent equivalent is Clutton-Brock and Albon 's Red Deer in the Highlands , while a short summary is in Clutton-Brock and Ball , Rum , the Natural History of an Island — a book which is worth studying for the interplay of how things affect each other . |
| 3 | And they know everybody who 's worth knowing in the househunting jungle — which makes them the ideal people to recruit the rest of your team . |
| 4 | Mrs Stephens , who is considering appealing against the ruling , added : ‘ Helen is a nice quiet girl and she would n't do anything like this . ’ |
| 5 | It 's about investing in the future and allowing people to control their own destinies with a little expert help . ’ |
| 6 | It 's about because the company after all is you it 's a group of people and so er it 's about putting over the right image so quality presentation to a client the image . |
| 7 | If you 're planning to move house , it 's worth knowing about the Home Arranger service offered by the Leeds Permanent Building Society . |
| 8 | then it 's worth looking at the idea . |
| 9 | For a somewhat less biased view of the global scene it 's worth sending for the latest Report on the State of World Population from the UN 's Fund for Population Activities ( 485 , Lexington Ave . |
| 10 | Er now I I would expect , I do n't know whether it 's worth talking about the general principle that we 're talking about different routes here and as i understand , the purpose today was to talk about the need for relief roads and I would expect at some future date , at a public enquiry when er I 'm defending er the outer blue er the outer northern route , to defend why that was chosen as opposed to an inner northern route and not rely upon the key diagram in the structure plan and the stars that are shown on there . |
| 11 | I think it 's worth checking with the company concerned , but where caustic soda has been used , it leaves a whitish residue , and this should be washed off with clean water , then the wood allowed to dry . |
| 12 | Convert or sceptic , the philosphy seems to be if it works for you , it 's worth paying for the privilege . |
| 13 | Er , we have been in er organising these new seats , about the same time as the Labour government took in nineteen seventy eight , er I said that when I intervened upon him and I say it again it 's worth paying on the records , exactly the same pressures have been on us as were as on them . |
| 14 | It 's like living in the Arabian Nights . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's like jumping off the roof of a three-storey house , ’ he said , ‘ and then having the house chase you down the street . ’ |
| 16 | In a moment of weary despair , he turns to a colleague and says , ‘ It 's like pissing into the wind ! ’ |
| 17 | ‘ It 's like looking through the wrong end of a telescope . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ It 's like looking down the side of a mountain , ’ she said . |
| 19 | She says it 's like standing on the edge of a crevasse . |
| 20 | When I 'm under them , it 's like standing in the sun . |
| 21 | Stanley Spencer said that when you paint a face , it 's like crawling across the landscape of that face . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's like going into the scent counter at Harrods , ’ I said . |
| 23 | So it is with cleaning in the food industries . |
| 24 | BSB is also committed to spending as much on producing new programmes as it is on buying from the BBC archives . |
| 25 | It is worth distinguishing between the management power structure and the general production structure , because what we have got increasingly are quite a lot of women at the professional level , working in individual production teams , as producers and directors of individual series or individual programmes . |
| 26 | In particular , it is worth experimenting with the direction of both the roll and the stall turn to see if any improvement can be found . |
| 27 | It is worth skipping through the rest just to read them , but their bearing on the story proper — Belbo is a man who missed his moment , and conspiracy theory is the refuge of the disappointed — is specious . |
| 28 | When Neill and Buchanan challenge what is many boxing fans ' most cherished theory , it is worth delving into the social backgrounds of all the world champions and many leading contenders . |
| 29 | Though margins on top-notch corporate loans have nearly doubled in the American market to about 50 basis points ( hundredths of one percent ) , they must widen further before it is worth lending in the midst of a recession . |
| 30 | Before looking at one-to-one and group direction it is worth thinking about the place and content of reflection in our lives . |