Example sentences of "be [noun sg] [prep] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be at a , at a truly rational level we can all perfectly well do all kinds of other things rationally on a truly rational level , because there we have this this er high degree of that comes with rationality , but at a deeper , kind of gut level , the emotional feelings we , we find that it 's , it 's much more difficult , and at that point if you do n't try and change things and do things that are unnatural , you find you 're kind of going against the emotional grain and er perhaps some people find it easier than others , but perhaps everybody will feel a certain erm tug as it were , certain erm discomfort or a certain emotional alienation from themselves which er perhaps is because we 're trying to do something more basic we just were n't designed for . |
| 2 | It 's difficult really because I mean we 're sort of striving for the same sort of things |
| 3 | I almost envy the unemployed when they 're sort of walking along the side the canal and |
| 4 | And that 's why they 're sort of clambering over the bridge , in order to get onto the shortcut . |
| 5 | erm what this gives us an opportunity to do is to further exploit and promote erm the English , or the sort of British holiday , and this is why we are sort of working on the theme ‘ Britain 's great ’ , because a lot of people have yet to discover various parts of Britain and there are all sorts of holidays , you know , across Britain , from Land 's End to County Antrim , from Loch Ness to London Town . |
| 6 | Normally ( see Fig. 3.2 ) cortisol is secreted mainly around the time of waking and this seems to be part of dealing with the ‘ stress ’ of waking up and preparing for the new day . |
| 7 | Almost immediately , the birds in the angsana responded by flying out in a flock , showing what I took to be anxiety by sinking to the ground and then rapidly rising again . |
| 8 | There was a very affected couple , Erwin and Pam , who were expert at creaming off the best for themselves — and as they were in their mid-thirties , they had had time for some practice . |
| 9 | The NUCPS also warned if the move to Glasgow went ahead , staff who were expert in dealing with the army officers ' pay system would leave . |
| 10 | I was saying to Jean this morning , cos it 's funny enough we went out to Dartington yesterday and we were sort of looking at the restaurant there at Cranks , and I said to her you know about this bowl of soup and then the erm |
| 11 | Er if they wanted to be on their roller skates or even on their bikes , then they were sort of going around the walkways . |
| 12 | We were sort of waiting for the sunset thing . |
| 13 | ‘ All naturists are very warm people and there 's friendship in belonging to the club just like any other . ’ |
| 14 | You , you get a tin er and whoever 's sort of looking after the tin , er somebody kicks it , one 'll kick the tin and then you all go and hide , and he has to find you before you can come back and kick the tin . |
| 15 | Well it it obviously reduces the the amount of er of cash that 's sort of flowing round the . |
| 16 | Meanwhile , Labour 's John Power , who 's head of planning on the city council says there are major problems to overcome : |
| 17 | It was not simply a matter of timing , for there is evidence of preparing for the moment by building up the organisation and , most important , a strike fund . |
| 18 | Rulor 11 is a yacht which proves there is life after racing in the same boat . |
| 19 | And so there 's prestige in going into the school . |
| 20 | The other was part of dealing with the affairs of a builder who had emigrated . |
| 21 | The sound of the trains and the flash of their silvery sides through the trees was part of living at the School . |
| 22 | For a short period from 1952 to 1954 he was Professor of Conducting at the Warsaw Conservatoire . |
| 23 | get it , you see , but i it 's fantastic watching cos you know they were they , they it was sort of going along the |
| 24 | Erm and so it was sort of going to the corner shop and buying what they could , er when they had the money , and sometimes they would borrow money from somebody whose benefit came on a different day . |
| 25 | I mean , it was a windy day as well and I do n't think that helped because the wind was sort of blowing into the mike but er and when he took it to college there was this noise all the time , he must have had it clipped under here somewhere ! |
| 26 | and er that was one of Tom 's extras because I could very well remember , erm we had very little erm time off at Christmas and there was one year that erm , we just had the Christmas Day and erm erm Tom had this meeting on the Christmas Eve to decide who should erm attend the next week 's tractor course and erm , everybody was sort of feeling in the , sort of Christmas spirit and |
| 27 | There was time for botanising in the Dutch countryside where Miller noticed Acorus calamus , sweet rush , in the ditches and on the banks of the Meuse growing to a height of 4 feet . |