Example sentences of "[pron] be [verb] [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm tidying up the last ten years by releasing two compilation albums , ’ he says . |
| 2 | Every day I do n't manage to catch the same bus home as you do , I 'm fed up the whole evening . |
| 3 | . I 'm going up the fair on er Saturday . |
| 4 | I was trundling out the obvious . ’ |
| 5 | Well I was looking out the other side cos I was trying to work out where Glynis lived . |
| 6 | And then the whole thing swivelled round in my head , and I was looking down the same chimney from the top , and nothing was about to stop me falling down it . |
| 7 | I was dragged down the hard , concrete steps on to the pavement . |
| 8 | ‘ When I was setting up the Fine Chemicals Manufacturing Organization [ FCMO ] in the early '80s , there was no doubt quality was the main way to compete more effectivey and raise performance . |
| 9 | There I was strolling down the scrubby end of the Kings Road , mooching along . |
| 10 | I was flying out the next day and they changed my flight to the night before and I missed it . |
| 11 | I do n't think so because it 's in the main street called street and I was taken over the first day . |
| 12 | I was an East End boy myself ; I was brought up the hard way . |
| 13 | Erm I then , erm sent a memo to the t erm County er Clerk of the Council and erm applied for upgrading and erm so I was then taken , I was put on the permanent staff . |
| 14 | I also had a plaster of Paris cast on my leg ( which had been injured in a fall some weeks before ) and consequently had some difficulty in walking , I was put on the Regimental Mini Bus which was run purely to ferry married personnel to their married quarters after functions . |
| 15 | At the end of 1986 I was put on the waiting list and stopped work . |
| 16 | Take-off time arrived and the oil temperatures were still somewhat below the criteria , but I opened the throttles and very shortly the tail was up and I was heading down the short runway into a brisk headwind , pointing straight for the little pub outside the camp that had become a second home for us . |
| 17 | Next morning I was driving down the single village street when I saw Mrs Bailes coming out of the shop . |
| 18 | I was going out the other way ! |
| 19 | Suddenly I was climbing up the long ladder of the North pier , the rucksack being roped afterwards . |
| 20 | Her hand was loosening his tie , his was sliding up the tingling curve of her thigh . |
| 21 | On the plus side , the arrival of VAT on domestic supplies should encourage people to think about saving energy in the home , thereby reducing the demand on coal , oil and gas and , therefore , cutting emissions of carbon dioxide ( CO ) which are pushing up the global temperature . |
| 22 | Roodepoort of Hyperama 's car park is an arena — there are others , if you know where to look — in which are played out the sad , savage realities of modern South Africa . |
| 23 | By the end of this period the political groupings which were to carry out the great changes of the next century in Britain , though very far from having assumed their late-Victorian form , were slowly evolving . |
| 24 | This transformation provided the skeleton for the Christianity which was to take over the Germanic world , to mould it and modify it in turn . |
| 25 | They had to carry a table out with them , which was set up the required ten metres from the shed wall , and the pistols were laid out , and the targets pinned up . |
| 26 | From the vibration on the rope it felt like somebody was jumaring up the 300 tiring feet back into sunshine — some prussik ! |
| 27 | Some of the villages on the edge of the Baronnies look all too spruce , as if the locals had by now given way completely to immigrants wealthier than themselves , who are buying up the old houses and adding new , sometimes crassly intrusive ones . |
| 28 | Ca n't help thinking that they are on the right track and it 's we who are barking up the wrong tree . |
| 29 | A plan to restore the windows at a cost of DFl.1.2 million has been approved by the State Office for Monuments who are putting up the greater part of the necessary funds . |
| 30 | A sneaky scramble or climb on Laddow Rocks and you are heading down the eroded Pennine Way track to Crowden and the Longdendale Reservoirs , with the sombre northern slopes of Bleaklow frowning over them . |