Example sentences of "[prep] be [verb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The injured man 's canoe was rescued by a speedboat after being swept up the Maisemore channel of the river and was hauled undamaged up the 15 ft high bank . |
| 2 | Paula , from Bradford , died in hospital from a brain tumour after being taken ill the day after her 10th birthday . |
| 3 | which should of been bricked right the way in |
| 4 | Her despair at this belated realisation had rendered her only half aware of being dragged down the gallery stairs and across a hall humming with surprised murmurs . |
| 5 | Rewards chosen must be capable of being delivered immediately the CB is produced . |
| 6 | I do n't know how this happened , but er erm a piece of wood or something fell and hit him on the back of the neck and woke him up and he woke up from the vivid dream of being at the time of the French Revolution , of being lead up the guillotine and having his head chopped off . |
| 7 | Little did we know that G P T did n't actually write the software properly , and what was happening was that people writing new numbers in were knocking out the old numbers , alright ? |
| 8 | If the material is not topical and is delayed for some time before being sent out the date should be changed . |
| 9 | The only sport my old man was interested in was beating up the rest of the family . |
| 10 | The trucks themselves had to be manhandled down the steep rock-strewn defile and as the men were sweating away at this in the hot sun an Italian aircraft picked them up . |
| 11 | Obviously for the average electrician , stockbroker , or humanities-trained academic to be laying down the law un the value of a human blood substitute from cows or the spread of BSE would , as things stand , be foolish . |
| 12 | The first day of each survey was crucial in sorting out minor problems for the interviewers which only came to be recognized once the fieldwork was under way . |
| 13 | If the rabbits are to be shot then the man required to do the shooting must be freed from all other responsibilities . |
| 14 | " To be bossing up the school . |
| 15 | BRITISH Rail has launched an investigation to discover how a herd of cows came to be wandering down the Saltburn-Darlington line last week . |
| 16 | The reader has to be led up the garden path . |
| 17 | Er , let's , they are , seem to be setting up the s the administrative structures for regional government , without any democratic regional government taking part in the process . |
| 18 | Each of these gates were fitted with a sluice , to enable the space between it and the gate on the tank to be flooded once the join had been made . |
| 19 | The account from which LIFESPAN RDBI is to be run i.e. the LIFESPAN process account , has sufficient quotas as specified in the LIFESPAN RDBI installation notes ( reference 11 ) . |
| 20 | More than once flight recorder transducers have been found to be connected up the wrong way round , showing a turn to the left when in fact it was a turn to the right or showing a nose-up attitude when it was really nose-down . |
| 21 | The books were , deservedly , enormously successful and stories in the genre have continued to be written down the years and show no sign of drying up . |
| 22 | I will argue that a major readjustment needs to be made whereby the researcher takes on a more participative role working with and alongside practitioners and clients . |
| 23 | But as I quickly discovered , if any real progress is to be made even the most reactionary views need to be listened to and respected . |
| 24 | The bodymaker passed the doors to the finishers , who in turn passed them on to the french polishers ; the doors then moved along to those whose work it was to hang them in position , the operations being so arranged that the polished door was completed just at the point where it was to be hung on the coach . |
| 25 | As far as the extent of this limited edition being only 200 is concerned , my only reservations are outlined above : namely that a guitar is designed to be used and not coveted wholly as an objet d'art to be hung on the wall , which I suspect is exactly where the bulk of these models are likely to end up . |
| 26 | Even punk , once the rhetoric about dole queues , anarchy and Sten guns in Knightsbridge had been exhausted , had become just one more uniform to be hung on the clothesrail of British pop culture , to be dusted down nostalgically on anniversaries . |
| 27 | If paintings or prints are to be hung on the walls it is important to work out beforehand where they are going to go , and to make sure that battens are fixed in these particular areas . |
| 28 | Nowhere to be seen when the shrapnel was flying . |
| 29 | It remains to be seen how the XM stacks up against traditional executive fare , but the chances are that it will be too exotic for the British palate . |
| 30 | However , it remains to be seen how the class struggle , and the part it plays in history , are to be analysed . |