Example sentences of "be [verb] [pron] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you look down , when you are seeing it in on the television pictures , you look down from an aerial view . |
| 2 | Messing about in boats is more fun in Venice than anywhere , if rather more precarious , and on such an afternoon as this people are enjoying themselves all over the water . |
| 3 | After a disastrous period of neglect when Glaswegians preferred Costa del Sol to this island of Bute abounding ‘ in pleasing scenes ’ , the ‘ stately hotels ’ and ‘ comfortable villas ’ , though older and a bit worn , are sprucing themselves up as the visitors , still almost exclusively Glaswegian , are coming back . |
| 4 | They have put forward their nine-year coach Laurie Mains , and are winding themselves up to the point of wanting him as coach , first-up . |
| 5 | When they come back into work , begin feeding the highfat/performance-type diet about six weeks in advance while you are training them up for the extra work ahead . |
| 6 | While you 've been living it up in the lap of luxury — ’ |
| 7 | We will include this poem : I 've been saving it up for the right occasion . ’ |
| 8 | Lesbians and gays are expressing themselves differently from the way they were before the Clause , but they are still saying as openly and as proudly as ever that they want the boundaries changed . |
| 9 | Consequently , we 're seeing it more on the high street as casual wear . |
| 10 | In other words a good mirror signal manoeuvre routine , however you apply it but in a particular order , which gives a discipline , so that you 're keeping yourselves out of the problems that other people may give you if you allow them to . |
| 11 | Cos she 's gone mad and they put it on her , right , and they , they 're holding her and they 're tapping out of the stage sidewards and she 's sort of like going like this , she , she , thinks all these nice men 'll love me and then like at the end of the show you see them , they 're tapping her out of the studio and putting her into a van and she 's still wearing a straight jacket and smiling at you . |
| 12 | Well tough he 's not getting my , he 's not getting the ensuite room , I can tell you If I if I have got three lodgers and I 'm getting on with them and they 're they 're paying me regularly for the sake of an extra twenty pounds or whatever and the annoyance from Tony coming in at ten a or there abouts and then sitting there like a stuffed frock waiting for me to leap about and put food on a plate and microwave it not doing it , Brenda ! |
| 13 | No wonder they 're sending him over to the mad house for th ’ electric . ’ |
| 14 | right cos then you 're taking them away from the fact that you want other quotes right , they 'll say to you oh we were n't thinking of doing it actually until the winter , right and then you can say to them well let me just say that by placing your order in now we can put your installation in hand , right , basically at today 's prices , right , on an extended delivery , right , and you can still qualify for a special offer , right |
| 15 | ‘ We 're taking you down to the Pacific for a bathe , ’ I told her . |
| 16 | You write to an imaginary friend , you 're inviting him down for the summer holidays and you say all that , all about the sort of things that you 're planning to do with them , make it up |
| 17 | They 're warming us up for the next attack . ’ |
| 18 | But you 've only got , if you w if you put chips in a basket in a chip pan if it , the fat boils up you can at least lift the chips out straight away but if you 're putting them straight into the pan there 's no hope of stopping it coming over . |
| 19 | they 're putting it down in the paper that |
| 20 | And you say , today we 're , tonight we 're talking you over to the hub and we 're going to show you all this , and I take them and get over there about ten o'clock , and we go along there to , to look at the , the slats and the trays and there are all these masters flying around being terribly excited about this , terrific noises , and they say , God this is great , but how many parcels will go through tonight ? |
| 21 | I do n't like any of the transistor stuff and some of the modifications did n't work , but nowadays they 're making them just like the old ones and they 're brilliant . ’ |
| 22 | I mean , they 're , they 're , actually , they 're creaming it off at the moment . |
| 23 | They 're trying me out at the school Phil goes to — to see if I can manage . |
| 24 | ‘ They 're trying it on with the application . |
| 25 | They 'd been feeding it down at the where they give the horses |
| 26 | Have they been feeding you well at the hospital ? |
| 27 | We also asked if we could get the same consultation period because they are breaking it up at the four sites and some sites will get thirty days ' notice others will get the ninety days . |
| 28 | Interviewed in the trade union newspaper Trud , Pavlov claimed that ( unnamed ) banks in Switzerland , Austria and Canada had co-operated with non-governmental Soviet organizations to buy large-denomination rouble notes in massive quantities on the black market , and had been smuggling them out of the country . |
| 29 | He does n't talk to me much now because I 'm afraid I 've been the one who 's been tipping him out of the church when he 's smoking . |
| 30 | ‘ That 's why they 're common in the fire service and the army , where people are doing something out of the ordinary and taking greater risks than others . |