Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adv prt] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm you had a statement of Barbara 's , if it was in there , it was planned so that you crew can work harder erm although you filled in the bonus question well , the there was a tend dangerous tendency for you be sucked in to go into the bonus and I think you did well to say yeah well we 'd better walk along to that so you held out which was nice because if I had if you had n't tackled that you might have been shown the door once you 'd gone through that . |
| 2 | It is an aspect of performance practice where several cogent arguments can always be trotted out to avoid considering the hard evidence . |
| 3 | By now she was awake enough to feel a stab of regret that she would n't be going out to glide over the surface of that calm blue water after all . |
| 4 | Almost 1 million people will be helped back to work in the coming year by employment and training programmes . |
| 5 | The terrier allowed himself to be dragged down to lie on the blankets , and Theda was able to see her new mistress in the light afforded by a lamp on her bedside table and a set of two candelabra resting on a nearby chest of drawers . |
| 6 | Other raw material was flown back daily to the CIA in America and here too a special department had to be set up to cope with the volume . |
| 7 | " Are you saying I am not to be set up to dine with the Prince at Carlton House ? |
| 8 | At the same time Sir David Maxwell Fyfe persistently refused the requests of Sir Robert Boothby in Parliament that a Royal Commission should be set up to enquire into the nature and treatment of homosexuality . |
| 9 | Ranch meals are invariably big and hearty , and the smaller the ranch the more likely it is you 'll be sitting down to eat with the wranglers , many of whom are great characters . |
| 10 | ( The Abbey 's building and contents insurance must be taken out to qualify for the first time buyer 's discount ) . |
| 11 | Yet they can be dressed up to look like the international ‘ co-ordination ’ that the IMF , for one , has long advocated . |
| 12 | Trying to convince people the project was worth pursuing was not easy , and over a long period personal time had to be carved out to work on the project from time allocated to a variety of other activities ranging from textile fibres to films and even to electronics . |