Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [noun] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gaston , the committee man , who had been eyeing Ingrid the entire evening , trying to discern if she was wearing anything at all under the gold waistcoat , hurried over and pulled her to her feet . |
| 2 | The cadets on Academy guard duty are patrolling the grounds ; those with enough money and energy are heading fur the bright lights . |
| 3 | Going for gold in the world rowing championships are the Henley pair of Steve Redgrave and Matthew Pinsent … they 've been cruising thro the early heats … |
| 4 | And there , in exactly the manner I have recommended for putting in clues in the traditional whodunit , Hammett gives his readers their clue , full-out and in the open but made to look as if it was there as part of the particularly laconic , cool conversation the two men are having over the newly-slain body . |
| 5 | Spenser at this stage is establishing his own claims to rational soundness by having Eudoxus , with his common sense English perspective , be seen marginalising the apocalyptic claims of Irenius . |
| 6 | There 's still plenty of hard work to be done keeping the Victorian rose garden in shape — it 's taken a battering by recent heavy rain , but will be in full bloom again soon . |
| 7 | Of course , Madame Duvalle will come over every month to see that I 'm doing things the right way and Monsieur Félix intends to spend quite a lot of time in London . |
| 8 | The event will be showing shoppers the modern face of bingo all week in Newton Mall . |
| 9 | For static recognition , this could be achieved pre-processing the whole text to determine the topic . |
| 10 | From the vantage point of so-called post-liberation , we know only too well the political blindnesses of sexual desire , and how disastrous it can be to make sexuality the prime mover of a political vision . |
| 11 | The Director of Personnel responsible for the personal affairs of overseas executives rang Mark from Detroit to say that compensation terms had now been worked out , and that he would be visiting England the following week to discuss the subject with him . |
| 12 | Also , as West Ham were wasting time the whole match ( until we scored ) , why do referees play the injury/extra time ? |
| 13 | They coexisted with the now somewhat depleted Byzantine empire but soon found themselves embroiled in the Crusader invasion at the end of the eleventh century , in the course of which were to emerge Baibars the Mamluk and the celebrated Kurdish warrior known as Salahuddin al-Ayyubi or Saladin . |
| 14 | They were having dinner the following day when there was a loud knocking on the front door . |
| 15 | He had to tell people when they were doing things the wrong way . |
| 16 | Thus , if the trustees of an interest in possession trust were actually to pay monies it will generally be the trustees who will be treated for the purpose of income tax as having made the payment and not the beneficiary ; if bare trustees , nominees or agents were to pay monies the beneficial owners or principals will generally be treated as having made the payments . |
| 17 | How easy it is to give children the wrong idea ! |
| 18 | The next step is to cash discount the above sum for 30 years ( that is , years to retirement at age 65 ) . |
| 19 | Also in 1893 he undertook the restoration of St Peter 's Church , West Knighton , the only restoration for which he had sole responsibility , at a time when he was writing Jude the Obscure . |
| 20 | He was made sergeant the following year . |
| 21 | The method of netting was to set nets the full length of the wood from the stream , some 500 yards ( 450 metres ) or so . |
| 22 | How far was combating socialism the prime motive for the Liberal social reforms 1906–14 ? |
| 23 | All she could do was to give Adam the completed programs , and then keep as far away as possible from Lynx and the man who ran it . |
| 24 | That 's why she was called Catherine the Great |
| 25 | I was saying Danny the other day do you remember the time he came and got out his in there ? |
| 26 | Anthony was doing things the hard way . |
| 27 | He was giving Singer the bare minimum — nothing about Nick 's death or Marianne 's disappearance , nothing about Sophie or Zeno . |
| 28 | While the Labour conference was taking place the Prime Minister had a trial run with the televising of Parliament . |
| 29 | I was reading Mauriac the other day : the Mémoires intérieurs , written at the very end of his life . |
| 30 | He was marrying Hazel the following weekend . |