Example sentences of "[noun prp] be [verb] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Swindon are bouncing up the table into third now . |
| 2 | Other old shipmates like Phil Andrews , Eddie Clarke and Ron Giles were still crewing but others like Des Ferret , Vic Roberts and Bob Wellock were disappearing up the promotion ladder . |
| 3 | Lever is playing down the move . |
| 4 | NEC IS starting up the world 's first production line for 16 megabit chips in its Sagamihara factory , reports Ken Takahashi of Newsbytes . |
| 5 | Milton Keynes is picking up the pieces and pleased that at least no one lost a life . |
| 6 | They had granted her permission to move tents once she 'd heard that an unconscious soldier named Trumper was lying down the line . |
| 7 | Radio Bangladesh quoted an official spokesman as saying on Aug. 10 that the independent Mecca-based Islamic body , Rabitah , had agreed to fund half the estimated US$50,000,000 cost of repatriation and rehousing , and Pakistan was to make up the rest . |
| 8 | G-GWYN was pulled out the hangar , topped up with fuel and taken skyward . |
| 9 | David was walking up the garden path , half an hour earlier than expected . |
| 10 | Folkestone was a pocket borough of the Rothschilds , Southend was falling under the control of the Guinness family , Plymouth was learning to love the Astors , and Samuel Roberts was building up the influence in Sheffield that was to provide a seat for his family until 1966 . |
| 11 | That was the time when Freud was exploring just the id . |
| 12 | Bourne was scooping up the soup of the day with precise , efficient movements — never a drop spilled , never a slurp . |
| 13 | Sebastian was looking out the window at the racehorses in the Curragh . |
| 14 | Lord Aldington was asked why the Yugoslavs had not been told their destination before repatriation . |
| 15 | Christian political sources had warned that unless Major Serhal was freed immediately the incident would be a severe blow to Arab-sponsored peace efforts . |
| 16 | Tomorrow night we 'll show exclusive pictures of the MG RV8 on the road and ask why Rover is to bring back the car it killed off over a decade ago . |
| 17 | Matthew is extending here the theme first highlighted in his account of the calming of the storm . |
| 18 | But the joke was most unfair , for the Flynn system enabled Stevenson 's to lay out the line and start preparing the rail bed from a number of focal points along its path without waiting for survey engineers . |
| 19 | Once belief in Satan is overthrown then the church has to see its role not in conquering the ‘ Devil and all his works ’ but in overcoming ignorance , disease , superstition and injustice . |
| 20 | Stephen 's informed both the police and Immigration . |
| 21 | As Carrie was pouring out the tea , Mr Carver came back into the room , followed by his wife , and he said to Mick , ‘ Stay out of that scullery from now on . |
| 22 | There is some evidence of the pope 's personal position on several issues — his reluctance to declare the count of Toulouse excommunicate , his care to see that Simon de Montfort was given only the wardship of the count 's lands , and his snubbing of Archbishop Siegfried of Mainz for his inopportune intervention , three times ordering him to sit down . |
| 23 | She looked the place over while Josie was paying off the cab . |
| 24 | Jazz FM , Kiss FM and LBC are taking on the might of London station Capital Radio by selling their airtime in one package . |
| 25 | The plan worked so well that insurers Lloyd 's paid out the £1.8 million claim . |
| 26 | The context in Mark 3:20–30 makes it abundantly clear that by his cures and exorcisms Jesus is driving out the demons . |
| 27 | Someone 's got to have hope and want to change something — because the UK 's going down the pan . |
| 28 | ‘ We all know Mozart is remembered when the emperors he wrote music for are not , ’ he said . |
| 29 | I had wept back in the office after Mr Charles had told me the Scharnhorst was steaming up the channel unchallenged . |
| 30 | Inspector Miskin was walking down the aisle . |