Example sentences of "be [verb] [pron] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Hooto ( TM ) may , even now , be congratulating himself on the risks he 's taken , the frontiers he 's conquered . |
| 32 | He 'll be telling them about the pressures of being a superstar living in Hollywood ! |
| 33 | What might be watching him from the shadows ? |
| 34 | To crush strikes and abandon political reform would be to throw himself into the arms of those groups wedded not just to authoritarian politics but to neo-Stalinist economic institutions and principles . |
| 35 | Diesels , thrifty and reliable , are making it in the charts , says John Langley |
| 36 | Towards the end of his playing career when he was with Hibs and contemplating a move to the Orlando Lions , a short lived soccer team in Florida , Rough 's business interests not only brought him appalling bad luck but imposed a series of financial set-backs that were to affect him in the years to come . |
| 37 | Shouts and curses echoed across the vault , and then they were hurling themselves down the steps . |
| 38 | He pulled out a burnet leaf and ate it slowly , concealing his fear as best he could ; for all his instincts were warning him of the dangers in the unknown country beyond the warren . |
| 39 | If the bird were dashing itself against the bars , feathers flying , then the similarities to human suffering would arouse impulses to assist , even to release it , like the giraffe . |
| 40 | And all they that heard it wondered at those things which were told them by the shepherds . |
| 41 | They had taken the area from the rebels and were defending it on the orders of General Kopyion . |
| 42 | ‘ If they were taking him to the police station , why did they walk three miles . |
| 43 | ‘ I thought you were taking me to the police station . ’ |
| 44 | ‘ I believe that someone knew you had the sack with you and that you were taking it to the outlaws . ’ |
| 45 | In the centre of the piece was a carving of a shoemaker resisting four shaggy devils who were dragging him from the embraces of what at first Athelstan thought was a young lady but , on looking closer , -realised that with his tail and close-cropped hair , it was a depiction of a male prostitute . |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | At the front , though , they had taken them through the gate and were playing them on the windows of Hilda Machin 's sitting-room . |
| 48 | Er I were telling you about the pianos , in one particular terrace you could just imagine it in , what , nineteen er twenty si no , twenty seven twenty eight , and you know things were bad , you talk about the thirties , the twenties were worse than that . |
| 49 | Veterans mostly of conferences and corporate operations where the good time masked a definite hidden agenda , they were steering him through the introductions deftly and with an impressive display of memory . |
| 50 | It was frightening to walk through the Barkhor , where Chinese soldiers with machineguns were watching us from the roofs . |
| 51 | Duncan , Bert and I were to secrete ourselves behind the curtains along with Aspel , who was to demonstrate the trick with the help of his three ‘ assistants ’ . |
| 52 | IAN KNOX of Ardglass has been telling me of the hazards of his favourite pastime , riding penny-farthing bicycles . |
| 53 | The aim of the game is to see which of the teams can fill up their glass the first . |
| 54 | He is seeing her off the premises at this minute . ’ |
| 55 | Mrs Lydan 's husband Bill died last year but she 'd kept dozens of stones , and pieces of jewellery which he 's given her over the years . |
| 56 | All you have to do is introduce it into the plebs ’ soap . |
| 57 | To the extant that Professor Preston is warning us of the dangers of oversimplification and bad herme-neutics then we do well to listen to him . |
| 58 | He 's writing something for the films , he says . |
| 59 | The best way is to decorate it with the materials found in nature , and attempt to soften the overall box shape . |
| 60 | The choreographer 's problem is to select which of the movements are appropriate , when and how they are to be incorporated and what style and quality they require . |