Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [to-vb] [pn reflx] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this sense , social work has been struggling to free itself from the same trap as much of British industry . |
| 2 | We 're going to lock ourselves inside the fragile skin of a small floating home , and all of us , three of us anyway , at odds and full of motives I did n't understand . |
| 3 | Heads of department from the Soviet trade union centre , the AUCCTU , are expected to visit Congress House in the New Year on a fact-finding mission , and there have been requests for training links to be built between the TUC and the Hungarian trade union body , SZOT , which has been attempting to restructure itself over the last two years . |
| 4 | You are going to need to buy some bathroom scales if you have n't got any , or if the ones you have got are n't accurate , because each day you are going to weight yourself to the nearest pound ( 0.5kg ) . |
| 5 | I hope now that the privileged few are having to lower themselves to the level of State schools , there will be more pressure on the Government to put some cash into education . |
| 6 | ‘ Yeah ; soon as it 's finished , I 'm going to throw myself off the Channel Tunnel . ’ |
| 7 | The institutional , legal and procedural definition of convocation had not been clear in 1307 nor was it finally resolved by 1327 : the clergy were struggling to free themselves from the enveloping quicksand of parliament , the king 's high court , and to reach the firm ground of an autonomous clerical assembly , no part of the king 's court ( with all that that implied ) and free from the intimidating presence , or intrusion , of those royal councillors who were laymen . |
| 8 | In 1850 she was noticed by the artist Walter Deverell , who asked her to sit for him and a group of young friends who were beginning to distinguish themselves as the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood . |
| 9 | The government-backed unions are trying to portray themselves as the true and uncompromising voice of the workers : ’ outflanking Solidarity to the left ’ , as one commentator put it . |
| 10 | In other words , they have been trying to scratch themselves on the sandy bottom and get stranded by accident . |
| 11 | WITH COVENT Garden on the rise , West Soho , London 's Eighties mecca of zonal shopping , is looking to keep itself on the agenda . |
| 12 | If she 's not careful , her poor old taxi is going to find itself off the road for a week . |
| 13 | To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what steps he is taking to assure himself of the adequacy of the funding arrangements for local management of smaller primary schools ; and if he will make a statement . |
| 14 | To be humble is learning to know ourselves in the light of the knowledge of God . |
| 15 | It had grounds for such fears , since it was struggling to legitimize itself as the Palestinian representative and did not wish this to be challenged by any independent local movement . |
| 16 | The hoverspeeder , its motors still idling , was attempting to wedge itself into the hole in the wall which Daak must have made with the vehicle 's front thrusters . |
| 17 | And that 's I was trying to put myself in the position of before . |