Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [adv prt] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a most interesting essay in the recent volume of Essays on the Depopulation of Melanesia the great psychologist W. H. R. Rivers adduces evidence which has led him to believe that the natives of that unfortunate archipelago are dying out principally for the reason that the ‘ Civilization ’ forced upon them has deprived them of all interest in life . |
| 2 | And Darren looks like an oversized leprechaun , all dressed in green and ready to go , meanwhile I 'm reporting this excellent news to you guys if you are listening out there from the national library association , er , er , er , er |
| 3 | For a moment I felt better , then my face chanced to come alongside the face of a three-foot-high king in a crown — I 'd been pushing down hard on the bishop 's corpse memory , now he reared up again … |
| 4 | This is when the bream are feeding very confidently , usually on maggots which they are picking up directly from the bottom , much as a chicken picks up corn one grain after another without having to move too far to do it . |
| 5 | " I do n't know why you 're wandering about here in the dark anyway . |
| 6 | So we 're meeting back here on the twenty fifth of April at two thirty . |
| 7 | They 're growing up all over the place and as you say , Ernie he he he did say about education but whose gon na run education in the future same as social services , you 'll soon find they 'll social services up into the health service . |
| 8 | For the latest , we 're going over live to the meeting , and our reporter Nick Clark . |
| 9 | So we 're going out well after the meeting to sort that one out , we 'll try it in there . |
| 10 | You 're wobbling about all over the strings . |
| 11 | and er they 're coming down here for the morning she always does it |
| 12 | I think they 're losing out more in the workplace than they are in the home , and I 'm only generalizing . |
| 13 | Funny that the kids are so quiet , usually after a day cooped up in there they 're jumping around all over the place . |
| 14 | We 're following up much of the documentation that we found and hope it could lead to other things which I can not reveal . |
| 15 | We 're following up much of the documentation that we found and hope it could lead to other things which I can not reveal . |
| 16 | Yeah well th cos they 've been waiting up there on the thing and they 've land or they 've just been circ |
| 17 | Slack planning laws mean hotels are growing up all over the place , said Nick — who quickly threw out his own idea that the West has all the answers to the problems . |
| 18 | You could have been lying out there in the farmyard all night ! ’ |
| 19 | Quite a lot of the clean-up work had been going on apace of the actual stripdown of the engine so when the latter was finished , the former was not far behind . |
| 20 | While the weight of the waste we all throw away has been going down slightly over the last twenty years , ( because things like glass , plastic bottles and cans have become thinner ) , the volume of waste has been rising . |
| 21 | One , one er stress in my , on what happens so that , that it 's companying it 's been manufacturing leg irons that 's been going out there to the Nile , has n't it , was n't it to . |
| 22 | He was sure there had been more when he first arrived ; they had been scuttling about all over the place , carrying implements , standing on stools stirring steaming mixtures , chopping things and throwing bits and pieces into cauldrons . |
| 23 | ‘ We know there are individual trusts with smaller turnovers than ours and mergers with acute services are going on elsewhere in the country , ’ he said . |
| 24 | If we make up a helical coil ( Fig. 4.2(b) ) the wires are going round always in the same direction so the voltages simply add and we may rewrite eqn ( 4.13 ) in the form |
| 25 | Many of the drivers are Brunel enthusiasts , but others are going along just for the ride . |
| 26 | ‘ The lights are going out all over the galaxy , ’ he said softly . |
| 27 | Well , we are going back now to the days of the hand joiner 's shop , when mouldings were scribed ( not routered ! ) and tenons cut with the rip saw . |
| 28 | The books are lying about all over the place in Shellerton . |
| 29 | In fact , population growth rates are slowing down everywhere in the world — even in Africa . |
| 30 | I would think it would , yes , I would think it would be people , more and more people are coming round today with the idea that people need to go away , send somebody to get something . |