Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [pn reflx] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Whether the two little fighting men are pricing themselves out of the market remains to be seen but both were threatening a stand-off . |
| 7 | The question is , first of all , and the question you must be asking yourselves right at the beginning is , ‘ Why face the media , why have anything to do with them , at all ? ’ |
| 8 | He 's been making himself part of the England scene by acting as spy for some time now as already noted on the list . |
| 9 | Just such an episode has been playing itself out on the American financial stage . |
| 10 | All down the corridor people were propping themselves up against the walls , or lying on the floor singly or in couples . |
| 11 | The riotous company had pushed their way into the church , where demented birds , disturbed for the first time in who knows how long , were battering themselves madly against the rafters . |
| 12 | But Clinton 's nationwide image as untrustworthy refuses to fade , while the insurgent Brown is enjoying himself hugely as the slash-and-burn anti-everybody candidate who knows he will never have to fulfil his outlandish promises . |
| 13 | It is unhelpful if Ministers or others speaking on the right hon. Gentleman 's behalf suggest that internment will not be used or that it is not a viable and justifiable means of dealing with those whose training and speciality is keeping themselves out of the courts and out of the hands of those on whom we depend to impose justice for the deaths that have occurred in Northern Ireland . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's sending itself on to the Shuttle . |
| 15 | Normally , financial troubles and scandals around money visit players late in their lives , when their playing days are over and they are rehabilitating themselves back into the real world . |
| 16 | Rain knew Oliver was picturing himself back in the wine bar in Chelsea telling everyone how he 'd been mistaken for a drug dealer and nearly done to death in a Mediterranean backstreet by an underworld rival . |
| 17 | Hands was pulling himself up among the sails now , the knife between his teeth . |
| 18 | The prey was distancing itself fast from the hunters ; the scent , as Myeloski knew , was still cold and getting colder . |
| 19 | KENNETH Branagh brings a lot of folk out in hives and I was scratching myself furiously at the thought of Ken , Em , Stephen , Tony , Hugh and Imelda — plus Em 's distinguished mum Phyllida Law as the faithful retainer — all holed up , chummy as you please , in a country house over the Yuletide hols , quaffing bubbly and beating their breasts . |
| 20 | Sally was throwing herself all over the place and seemed to be enjoying it . |
| 21 | It sounded as if Irina was setting herself up for the planned return to Moscow , ahead of the Brückner lawyers . |
| 22 | Miss Jarman was heaving herself out of the carriage with the help of the crabbed old driver ; marching up the steps and rapping on the front door shouting : |