Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] [be] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could n't wait to be back under the lights again with all eyes on her . |
| 2 | Simon Wright did n't expect to be back from the High Court for at least another week . |
| 3 | Blur , the Valentines and Dinosaur Jr on in the wrong order , at the wrong time , in the wrong place , before the wrong crowd , using inappropriate equipment , and putting you in the worst mood you could hope to be in for the Mary Chain ? |
| 4 | That way , I think that some land might become available , but it would have to be up to the planners to be more flexible . |
| 5 | Mrs Bradford had given her the complete day off for her father 's funeral and she did n't have to be back at the house in Newcastle Place until six o'clock . |
| 6 | No talk of going out for meals then , everyone rushed off to their respective homes , grateful for the knowledge that they would not have to be back in the Variety Theatre until the ‘ half ’ on the Monday evening . |
| 7 | ‘ I shall want to be down at the track early tomorrow morning . |
| 8 | Smith does n't want to be out of the selectors ' minds at the start of the tour because he is desperate to improve on his overseas record for England . |
| 9 | A more important point is that passages of this sort , spliced as they are with images like the lizard from the immediate foreground of Pound 's tent inside the wire-mesh cage of the prison camp , do not come into being out of the free associations of idle reverie , though in these Pisan cantos Pound exploits the illusion of that , as Joyce did in Ulysses when he pretended to transport himself and us into the mind of Leopold Bloom . |
| 10 | Serious chipmakers ca n't afford to be out of the market , and Hitachi Ltd has announced that it has developed a new type of AND gate for Flash memory , which achieves the world 's smallest cell surface memory of just 1.28 square microns . |
| 11 | Contractors will reluctantly say , ’ No , we simply can not do your work because we can not afford to be out of the money for that period . ’ |
| 12 | Sparkling performance figures would seem to be out of the question . |