Example sentences of "be [adv prt] [verb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 're down to go to the dentist Friday , ’ Paul says . |
| 2 | And the fuel stations in the sky , we 're out refuelling with the R A F. |
| 3 | ‘ There 's Rose found dead , maybe murdered , and you 're out gallivanting in the dark . |
| 4 | Erm that erm about erm me father coming down from the top of the ah ah well , this was January the thirty first , nineteen hundred and sixteen and er me father had been up to look after the horses , pigs etc you know , and about eight o'clock he came back and said to my mother that there was a big fire out at Wensbury Me mother and all of us went up there , and er we could see these blazing buildings over there , and er mother immediately said that 's no fire , that 's the Zeppelin 's , and er that 's what it turned out to be , of course . |
| 5 | There the plaintiff passenger 's damages were reduced by 20 per cent because he had been out drinking with the defendant driver and a lot of beer had been consumed by both the plaintiff and the defendant . |
| 6 | They had been out walking in the garden when Hal had suggested he go with him and see Ben 's room . |
| 7 | They were all waiting for him at home now , he knew , in the olive grove , where the snails would be out crawling in the rain . |
| 8 | ‘ I simply have n't got time to spend hours slaving over a hot stove — I 'd rather be out playing with the children or getting out and about , but I do try to make sure we eat well . ’ |
| 9 | So it will be back to work on the Algarve this week when Payne bids to win the Portuguese Open , a tournament that provided Montgomerie with his first success in 1989 . |
| 10 | I 'm about to get on the phone as well |
| 11 | She asked the question half fearfully , almost afraid at what she might be about to hear after the event of the previous day . |
| 12 | However , he would not have been around to negotiate with the RAF and would have had to rely on a tenuous radio link with the LRDG main base . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's all very exciting for me at the moment , here I am about to go around the world for the first time , seeing cities like New York , which I have always dreamed of seeing . |
| 14 | I am about to retire to the breakfast parlour with Mr Beckenham and Miss Merchiston . |
| 15 | The figures that I am about to present to the House will embarrass the Leader of the House , but I shall get them on the record none the less . |
| 16 | The soundtrack is industrial dance , the punters the kind of alternative/college crowd who presumably are about to go for The Shamen in a big way . |
| 17 | Where we should expect to match France and Germany for industrial growth , we are about to fall below the levels of Greece and Portugal ’ . |
| 18 | Digital cordless telephone services — telepoint — are about to start in the UK , and low cost personal communications networks are due to begin in 1992 or 1993 . |
| 19 | Those in a correlated condition experienced the light only after a correct response in the presence of one of the cues ( and thus , as the task was learned , increasingly often along with this cue ) ; those in an uncorrelated condition received the light after 50 per cent of rewarded responses whether these were in made in the presence of the tone or of the clicker . |
| 20 | This is borne out by a ) the incredible amount of time and energy being put in at the WFS conference to the forthcoming Chesterfield Socialist conference and bI the constant egotistical/individualistic remarks made by conference participants , who had no interest whatsoever in building support for women 's struggle , ( and in many cases continued unchallenged with these views ) 2 ) That the conference had very few Black women in attendance , we saw around 12 out of the many hundreds ( although we were over represented in the creche and began to wonder whether this was the ’ Black women only ’ space created for us ) . |
| 21 | They also had to be decorated with braid and ribbons even when they were out ploughing in the winter ; George Sadler told me : |
| 22 | When Lindsey and Stevie joined the band you were out touring on the circuit before the big-selling albums happened . |
| 23 | The rabbits were out feeding in the fields . |
| 24 | She and her father were out walking on the day he died . |
| 25 | The rest of the time , he 'd stay with one of his friends when they were out campaigning for the animals . ’ |
| 26 | When the men were out working in the field , I was left in the yard erm I helped with feeding the milking the cows , feeding the calves and the pigs . |
| 27 | Children were out playing in the schoolyards , shouting and enjoying the sunshine ; shops were closed up for the dinner hour . |
| 28 | When they were about to leave for the restaurant , a man standing near the bar came up to Kevin and said , ‘ If ye 're wanting a place here , the Half House is on the market . ’ |
| 29 | It transpired that the previous day he had been in Liverpool and given an interview to the Daily Telegraph which had been interpreted to mean that we were about to call in the troops . |
| 30 | The boys were about to go into the building again after their first successful looting when suddenly somebody shouted : ‘ I Tedeschi , i Tedeschi arrivano ! ’ |