Example sentences of "[adv] be [v-ing] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those Israelis whom this behaviour most appals have long been likening it to the earlier stages of Nazism , an analogy that found startling vindication with the recent disclosure that some units in the occupied territories draw on Nazi precedents for their own self-image , one calling itself the ‘ Mengele detachment ’ and another ‘ the Auschwitz company ’ . |
| 2 | When the Juntas were thwarted in their organization of a war effort by the spiky legalism of those local organs of the ancien régime which survived in unoccupied Spain , they could defend their authority only be deriving it from the elections of ‘ a free people who did not wish to perish ’ . |
| 3 | But I 've not been taking them for the last week . |
| 4 | Clearly in looking at the travel agent sector we have already been analysing something of the domestic arm of the industry since these agents also arrange domestic holidays or parts of them . |
| 5 | " Just been watching you on the box — you have n't changed at all . |
| 6 | ‘ You have just been telling me about the steamy heat of New York in summer — and now you 're moaning about the cold weather here in London ! ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Six months ago , we never thought she would ever achieve her ambition but , fingers crossed , I 'll soon be taking her to the school gates and she can sit in class with the other youngsters , just like she always wanted . ’ |
| 8 | We shall not be throwing everything into the air and rewriting systems that already work satisfactorily . |
| 9 | Molesworth claimed that the House would not be committing itself to the larger scheme , nevertheless it was not in a mood for what George Bankes called an ‘ extensive scheme to enable Cabinet Ministers to entertain foreign visitors and their friends ’ . |
| 10 | One of the troubles with wood has always been getting it in the right sizes and making sure that it is free from hidden defects . |
| 11 | Actually , as R. A. Fisher , one of the founding fathers of what is now called neo-Darwinism , has pointed out , this fact of particulate inheritance has always been staring us in the face , every time we think about sex . |
| 12 | As for what he 's doing now , I do n't know , he 'll still be tipping them over the bar somewhere . |
| 13 | All I 'd say is that what you have to do Is to ask questions which although are apparently about what you want to do … where you want to get to should really be telling you about the person you 're — " |
| 14 | I mean I , I mean I du n no I mean I just , I just ha , I just had to tell you because I mean it really is pissing me off the way fucking Catherine treats me , she was alright before like and when I 'm on my own , no |
| 15 | S what in fact er Mrs said is too early in the process of community care to know how many homes you have to close she really is approaching it from the wrong way , it 's equally too early in the process of community care to know how many homes you need to have open , keep open or open and that is one of the problems which I believe this council and other councils will will face . |
| 16 | He had n't been thinking anything of the sort and last night he had only suggested he could settle her business for her with a phone call to the manager , whom he knew well , because he wanted to take her out today instead of waiting outside hotels for her . |
| 17 | ‘ If , ’ he says , ‘ the city council grants full planning permission for The Galleries in the next few weeks , it will not simply be shooting itself in the foot but blowing off its entire leg . ’ |
| 18 | cummings and Edwin Morgan are , however , splendidly useful , and if practitioners keep coming across the same texts , it has to be remembered that students may very well be meeting them for the first time . |
| 19 | ‘ Once you start taking people from poor families you might well be tempted to concentrate just on them , and in the end you wo n't be taking anyone from the streets at all . ’ |
| 20 | you certainly wo n't be getting it on the following Monday |
| 21 | Wilkinson said : ‘ I wo n't be throwing myself in the canal over the collapsed deal . |
| 22 | Well just any time , we wo n't be doing nothing until the end of May anyway . |
| 23 | Yeah if you have to moan about that you should n't be driving it in the first place . |
| 24 | Jennie did not realize the purpose of the mirrors and would shout , ‘ Do n't be looking at yerself , do n't be admiring yerself in the mirror . ’ |
| 25 | To the extent to which it makes sense to speak of interactions between whole nations at all , we suggest that the two superpowers and their allies may indeed be playing something like the paranoids ' hypergame . |
| 26 | Rex had evidently been viewing him through the eyes of a Repo Man . |
| 27 | I would n't get the opportunity to find out who else was calling me at the same time . |
| 28 | Erm , well , I assume you mean out of recent Leeds United players ( you ca n't seriously be comparing him with the real greats of football can you ? ) . he could certainly hit it , and sometimes goal-bound ( and quite often into the wall or behind for a goal kick ) . |
| 29 | So , although this perspective still has much to teach us , we shall subsequently be combining it with the broader explanations offered by later urban social theorists . |