Example sentences of "[pron] be [vb pp] [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yea , though I run down the valleys , I am Towed up the hills . |
| 2 | And I 'm carried on the tide |
| 3 | Dad said I should wait until it stopped snowing so hard , so I watched from the window , and before very long it did ease and I was sent down the cellar for the fuel . |
| 4 | I was dismissed from the library , but with a good reference and I was taken on the staff of the local Employment Exchange to ‘ sign on ’ the others . |
| 5 | Where gas fires are going to be installed , flues can be lined with flexible metal tube liners which are inserted down the chimney , but their life may be shortened by contaminating acids , formed by condensation in the flue combining with the carbon dioxide and sulphur dioxide contained in the flue gases . |
| 6 | It bursts at internals to release into the atmosphere an enormous number of rusty-red spores which are carried on the breeze to germinate in distant damp timber , starting the process afresh . |
| 7 | Amongst the curiosities was a series of Tradescant portraits , which were hung on the gallery walls . |
| 8 | Vibration drives the bricks into the sand , which works its way up the joints to meet the surface sand , which is driven down the joints . |
| 9 | Sometimes xerolas ( vegetables and/or fruits , often in the shape of a gigantic ball and strung on a pole which is carried on the shoulders of two men ) are carried in the procession . |
| 10 | A gastroscopy is a diagnostic procedure involving the direct observation of the upper gastrointestinal tract with a flexible fibre optic tube which is passed down the oesophagus . |
| 11 | There was extensive trading in coal , which was brought up the river from Yarmouth , and the rich tracts of land surrounding the town produced a considerable quantity of corn , particularly barley . |
| 12 | The Second Period was the time during which was laid down the evidence the nature of which has been revealed by men such as Charles Darwin and others , who gave to the world an understanding of the way in which evolution has operated through thousands of millions of years . |
| 13 | By the middle of the twelfth century , a revised order introduced a solemn oath which was taken on the gospels . |
| 14 | She 's switched on the radio for the traffic update . |
| 15 | She 's taken over the household and the book-keeping too . |
| 16 | In 1934 , on the recommendation of Professor Bell , Dean of the Faculty of Music at the University of Cape Town , her school was given a studio in the College of Music and she was taken on the staff of the Faculty of Music . |
| 17 | As working volunteers of a fraternal railway we were taken on the strength of the Llangollen railway for the day , and , clad in our reflective waistcoats , we were conducted along the track , first on foot , then on the ‘ Neptune ’ , a diesel track inspection vehicle . |
| 18 | If everything is taken on the wing , some planning , certainly , can be carried out . |
| 19 | ‘ Ratners thought this through a couple of years ago and then found itself locked into the game of pushing price to keep volumes moving and everything was put on the back burner , ’ says Richards . |
| 20 | There are other accessories you can use to increase the impact of the picture , including cords , tassels and ribbons that could be added to pictures when they are hung on the wall . |
| 21 | Thereafter , a physiological change may cause them to develop a preference for fresher water so they are lured up the rivers , just as spiny lobsters , at a particular time of the year , are drawn to lower temperatures . |
| 22 | They are brought in the wicker wastepaper basket by bowing Lourdes . |
| 23 | The eggs need to be well protected since they are carried on the wind , continually exposed to the sun 's fierce rays , and blown across the sand . |
| 24 | And the dolphins high-protein diet makes them especially vulnerable to environmental contaminants which become increasingly concentrated as they are passed up the food chain . |
| 25 | The most toxic residues from industrial society are rarely successfully neutralised or excreted by living organisms , and they tend to be increasingly concentrated in animal tissues as they are passed up the food chain . |
| 26 | yeah , and er , she gets them back and er they 've got to go through about twenty different processes before they 're allowed out the shop , or out the storage , cos even then , when they 're in store , they 're , they 're , some of them come back as cracked , you get ones coming back from er customers sort of thing , been and they come back and they 've got pins in them , they 've got bloody great er bits on the outside , of the outside . |
| 27 | When they were switched on the lights flooded out across the bare , flat expanse of moorland just beyond the perimeter of their property . |
| 28 | Such was their condition — they were pulled off the ice last week ‘ more dead than alive ’ — that Sir Ranulph and Dr Stroud were off to the Army Personnel Research Establishment for tests on the way their bodies held up to it all . |
| 29 | I have some illustrative figures in front of me erm which I I thought a question of this nature might , might crop up , erm th the figures are n't absolutely accurate , they were pulled off the file very quickly and er they may be out by er er er er a small amount , but they , they certainly illustrate the point . |
| 30 | He could not bear the thought of it being thrown down the well , however dangerous the alternative . |