Example sentences of "[vb base] be [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 So erm I do n't whether or not I s I still do n't think they were ultimately revolutionary , I think they were just erm people who they think were exploiting them at the time sort of erm you know in a certain situation
2 Mind , it is from er , what they do is send them through the post , just check 'em , make sure everything 's alright , ai n't it .
3 So it helps first of all when you 're setting up the spreadsheet I suppose you can create one formula then copy it instead of having to edit each one individually , erm but later on you might accidentally or maybe deliberately in some cases overtype a cell and er if you have to put it back again and what you probably do is copy it from the adjacent cell and then you have to study the formula to try and understand it , and then edit it if it was n't the copyable formula and , er it may take a little time to edit it but it could take you a lot longer to understand it .
4 The very first thing which they do is to destroy something on the island , which shows their masculinity .
5 ‘ I 've been watching you over the past few days . ’
6 You 've put me down for holidays in September and I 've been telling you about the cruise in October for months .
7 Jimmy Page 's best guitar solo The one from Since I 've Been Loving You on the third album .
8 ‘ I 've been chewing them for the past twenty minutes ! ’
9 Except for it 's dead hot still if you 're not careful , if you 've been cooking it in the over or something
10 He said , ‘ No , I have statements , I have witnesses and we 've been surveying you for the last four months . ’
11 I 'm actually , I am actually , I 've been party , they 've been circulating me with the correspondence of the residents ' association and I am very worried about this but do n't feel , until invited by the residents ' association , that we should do any more .
12 so I 've been putting them in the washing machine so maybe
13 The stuff they 've been giving me in the ward was like a milk soup .
14 I have been telling them about the different sensitivity which Asian women have to their babies and the fact that you ca n't just go up to an Asian woman with the diet leaflet and say you should be giving your baby Cod Liver Oil , because 90 per cent of Asians in Wandsworth are vegetarians .
15 Detectives have been hunting him since the discovery of a bomb factory in a London flat shortly before last Christmas .
16 I gathered from the locals here that Leeds have been given something around the 2,500 mark so I expect they will go quite quickly .
17 I gathered from the locals here that Leeds have been given something around the 2,500 mark so I expect they will go quite quickly .
18 When will the Department publish the review of the social fund , which we have long awaited , and when will he restore the right of the poorest in our society to a grant for essential items such as clothing , furniture and cookers , which have been denied them under the current system ?
19 If , however , he believes in the right to a free and independent trade union , let him grant that right to the employees at the Government communications headquarters , who have been denied it for the past eight years .
20 Well this is what I 'm saying Ton you and I have been saying it during the game that that the other players ca n't score goals it 's as simple as that .
21 ‘ Ever since the elections they have been revealing themselves as the neo-Nazis that they really are , ’ he said .
22 PEOPLE from a housing estate have been putting themselves on the map — and others have the unnerving prospect of coming face to face with themselves .
23 Washington seems content to let the United Nations disband the Contras , but Mr Pickering and other US officials have been linking it to the disbanding of the FMLN , without explicitly making it a condition for Washington 's cooperation .
24 The build up to the next Olympic games believe it or not is already underway … and our Friday Feature this week comes from Milton Keynes where Britain 's ice skaters have been launching themselves into the challenge of gold
25 We have been told nothing about the time of year , but for the purposes of the story we must assume that the rains have come , and the waters are high and fast , even though the women and children have got across safely enough .
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