Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adv prt] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Carlists had been building up the paramilitary Requeté since the early days of the Republic and seriously preparing for a rising since 1934 . |
| 2 | For example , on a second camera pass a projector was run along with the Discovery model to project action within the craft , seen at the windows , the windows having been blacked out the first time . |
| 3 | It is very difficult to do this satisfactorily ; the experienced reader can nearly always see where the joins have been made and , of course , for the student the exercise in beginning research has been carried out the wrong way round . |
| 4 | The Feldwebel came back , and the man who had been filling in the new form turned round in his chair and looked at me . |
| 5 | Customers are snapping up the top quality magazine with its wonderful photography and editorial . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | You do n't , you got ta , you got ta past there and say go past there and say you 're going up the next time |
| 8 | They 're going back the other way . |
| 9 | I do hope you 're feeling better , and that they 're sorting out the right combination of drugs this time . |
| 10 | Come on , now , quickly , you 're holding up the whole party . ’ |
| 11 | A Morrissey fan said : ‘ By sending the original tickets you 're giving up the only proof you ever had of having bought them , which means they can just ignore you . |
| 12 | ‘ Get in and socialise with the family , ’ Peter Shearer told Mr and Mrs M. You re not just teaching one child , you 're taking on the whole family , ’ this being a family of fifteen children , some with social and behavioural problems , and eight still of school age . |
| 13 | ‘ You 're barking up the wrong tree about the other address , ’ he bluffed . |
| 14 | You 're barking up the wrong tree . |
| 15 | ‘ You 're barking up the wrong tree . |
| 16 | They have complained that traffic has been going down the one-in-three gradient Bay Bank into the old part of the village which is prevented when police have been on duty in the past . |
| 17 | More designers are going down the locking tuner route and it 's something which I personally welcome ; it does away with that lumpiness at the nut end of the fingerboard and offers up a more traditional look into the bargain . |
| 18 | track , because it it , no other transport business er has er does has to have a business , which op owns both the track it 's operating on and the operating er facilities themselves , so the we 're not doing anything new here , what we are actually doing , and incidentally the German government and other governments are going down the same route now because it 's not true to say that others are n't privatizing , what we 're doing is saying that we are having a separate track authority , and there are a variety of reasons for that , er but the an and that means actually less investment by the franchisee himself , but he will have control over the th the track operations , because he will have a contract , with Rail Track , to deliver certain services , and if Rail Track does n't deliver them then he 's able to claim penalties so |
| 19 | But you , only you I am afraid , yes , only you out of everyone here , are holding back the entire production . |
| 20 | At lunchtime the following day , Tuesday , February 12 , the police are breaking down the new lock which Tommy has attached to Christopher 's purple front door . |
| 21 | They were always a big league band in the States , but it 's only in the last five years or so that they have been rising up the Euro league . |
| 22 | The problem with industry-funded research has always been sorting out the intellectual property rights . |
| 23 | They are screwing up the whole economy , not just housing . |
| 24 | Once the communications parameters have been set up the whole process is very simple and , so far as is possible , completely error-free . |
| 25 | Born in nearby Berkeley , Renee had been brought up the hard way . |
| 26 | Sharma v Knight [ 1986 ] 1 WLR 757 is authority for the proposition that jurisdiction conferred on county courts by statute is a general one and it is not restricted to the district in which proceedings should have been brought in accordance with Ord 4 , r 8 and that , if proceedings have been brought in the wrong county court , then the court nevertheless has jurisdiction to deal with the matter . |
| 27 | The pathogenesis of the disease has always been controversial , but considerable circumstantial evidence exists to support the suggestion that it is due to implantation of endometrium that has been refluxed down the fallopian tube at menstruation . |
| 28 | Following the retirement of Frank Whitehead ( 1982 ) and the early retirement of Alan England ( 1984 ) neither of the posts left vacant has still been filled ; they are unlikely to be filled in the foreseeable future . |
| 29 | Local inhabitants recall that thistles used to be placed down the outside school toilets before the unsuspecting used them ! |
| 30 | ‘ We have to make sure that justice is done , that those who are guilty will be meted out the full penalty , ’ she told reporters after attending a funeral service for a pilot who died wiping out the rebels ' air support in last week 's attempt to overthrow her . |