Example sentences of "[noun prp] be [v-ing] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In these pre-Cubist paintings of 1907 and 1908 it is as if Picasso were preparing himself for the difficulties involved in creating a new style by taking stock afresh of some of the basic problems inherent in all painting since the invention of illusionistic perspective . |
| 2 | ‘ In a way , Jeff is putting himself in the position of being a cultural martyr , ’ says Ned Rifkin , exhibition curator for Washington DC 's Hirshhorn Museum , part of the prestigious Smithsonian Institution . |
| 3 | While the Independent 's raising prices , Rupert Murdoch 's cutting them at the Sun and the Times . |
| 4 | Stylistically , Samson is distancing itself from the very audience it should inspire , but by doing so Milton is helping to avoid potential censorship and a silencing altogether . |
| 5 | Jean was pulling him by the hand towards the dance . |
| 6 | First er but I 've been tol I 'm sorry I 'm I have n't realized Scott was joining us on the line . |
| 7 | Sue was beckoning her from the till . |
| 8 | ‘ Ma must have taken to cooking up bits of food in her bedroom , ’ Algy said when Lady Grubb was doing something to the plants and she and Guy were alone with father in his study . |
| 9 | He felt as if Simon were lifting him by the collar and dangling him so that his feet were off the earth and his toes straining to reach something . |
| 10 | ‘ Mr Foggerty 's taking us to the baths after school , he said . ’ |
| 11 | The Royal Bank of Scotland is suing him in the High Court to recover the money , which includes a £500,000 overdraft . |
| 12 | Alexander was disporting himself about the boat . |
| 13 | As Estella was leading me along the dark passages , she stopped suddenly and put her face close to mine . |
| 14 | Maggie was taking a plane to London that night and Sheila and Mona were driving her to the airport . |
| 15 | Yeah i well he 's just distressed cos I think Gill 's phoning him in the morning and she said she 'd give him a lift to the hospital . |
| 16 | I think Alwin and Pat use an auditor cos as you know he 's in business and I 've got a feeling that Alwin was asking me about the auditors the other day , so whether there 's would be , whoever he is , would be er willing to do it , I do n't know . |
| 17 | Nigel Cramer was phrasing it by the book . |
| 18 | But Michele was urging her down the steps , and the gondolier had reached up to assist her into the gently rocking craft . |
| 19 | Doug was throwing himself into the part with relish . |
| 20 | In English , Miss J. was telling us about the Blessed Damozel . |
| 21 | Agnese was leading them through the front door into a cool tiled hallway , strewn with locally woven rugs and sweet with the delicate scent of freesias . |
| 22 | Souness is fixing me with the glare he reserves for the enemy , the look that countless midfield players must have known to their terror , a look that threatens to rupture my Achilles tendon , if I hover on a question too long . |
| 23 | It is a cry of triumph , greeting God 's showing himself in the midst of his people . |
| 24 | GERRY JOHNSON is driving me along the winding roads of south-western Virginia . |
| 25 | But by then , Nicolo was hurrying her down the steps , out of the building , and into a black Mercedes limousine . |
| 26 | Len was thumping him on the arm now with his fist . |
| 27 | ‘ Lieutenant Lapointe is escorting me to the opera on Wednesday , ’ she announced defiantly . |
| 28 | Burton was hurling himself on the course most likely to tempt and test him to the limit . |
| 29 | Barbara Coleman was saying something about the former beauty of the garden and its decline , but wondering aloud whether it was fair to say decline because what was happening was that the garden was returning to nature , and further wondering whether it was really and truly nature because some of the plants were not native to the region and did not entirely belong there , and then wondering whether that was not a strange remark to come from one who had made Provence her home for so long that she felt quite a part of the landscape . |
| 30 | For all the tact of his dealings with the army , his words and policies in the summer of 1958 plainly showed that de Gaulle was disassociating himself from the ideology of integration — i.e. integration of Algeria into France — that many officers favoured . |