Example sentences of "[be] [adv prt] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're off to join the Provisional Government … in Botany Bay , eh ? ’ the voice behind him laughed dryly . |
| 2 | ‘ Ah , yes , of course , the live-in nanny to look after her while you 're out enjoying the high life . ’ |
| 3 | And er , and they 've they 're out doing the Rocky Horror Show as well . |
| 4 | When actors say they want to be like Cary Grant , it 's usually a sign they 're about to make the worst movie of their career . |
| 5 | Suppose you 're about to make the last payment on your mortgage . |
| 6 | Off the field , Celtic are playing down weekend speculation that they 're about to announce the first instalment of finance for the Cambuslang stadium development . |
| 7 | We 're about to begin the long hike out to the rim . |
| 8 | And it wo n't just be the pilots who are out to make the best landings . |
| 9 | It appeared then that Adam had actually been out shooting the last time he was here . |
| 10 | While not in a heat Jan would be out encouraging the other competitors . |
| 11 | Fair enough , but some were saying they could nt pass the 11+ exams : - ) O'Leary should be back to provide the lacking experience . |
| 12 | Green concerns may well be about to travel the same route . |
| 13 | BT has a 60% stake in Cellnet and observers reckon it could be about to buy the remaining 40% held by Securicor and its sister company Securicor Services . |
| 14 | I am about to make the first incision . |
| 15 | All I remember thinking of as I pushed the trolley and looked at the red face and eyebrows was , My friend , you are about to take the longest journey a man ever takes in this life . |
| 16 | Thank You'-You are about to deflate the small plastic paddling pool in the garden in which no infant has paddled for a month until you realise that it is now full of strange vegetation and even stranger swimming insects and you decide to keep it as a nature reserve . |
| 17 | I must inform you that the same department are about to close the only respite centre ( Astley House in Huyton ) for children and young adults with special needs in the borough , so they can introduce what they call foster caring . |
| 18 | Welcome to these two newcomers but meanwhile , ‘ old hand ’ Diane Bennett tackles the decision of buying a computer for the knitting machine , so do n't miss Oh Brother if you are about to do the same . |
| 19 | On the manufacturing side , Sekers are about to trial the new ‘ Electronic Jacquard ’ — the latest from France , on a sale or return basis . |
| 20 | Gordon and I sit at a table as the old snowys sup their milk stouts and get ready to cross the road to the theatre , where several stars of television are about to perform the fabulous musical My Fair Lady . |
| 21 | In a moment we are about to leave the leisured and leisurely world of the eighteenth-century gentlemen and hurtle through the mechanical and material world of nineteenth-century England , where the revolutionary ideas of the aristocratic philosophers will become embodied in the social , political and economic structures of industrial Europe . |
| 22 | The idea is to produce a smooth zig-zag stitch with the sewing machine which does not catch the knitting in the machine foot , does not pucker , stops the cut edge from fraying and gives confidence to those who are about to cut the knitted fabric for the first time . |
| 23 | Last night Penny Junor , author of the definitive biography of Prince Charles , said people were out to wreck the Royal Family . |
| 24 | They had just returned to the courtyard and were about to examine the various outbuildings when they heard the sound of running footsteps . |
| 25 | They were about to arrest the whole band until I told them I was to blame . ’ |
| 26 | Or so at least we would be if were were about to produce the full-out why-dun-it . |
| 27 | Furthermore , the cadres believed they were about to ignite the European socialist revolution . |
| 28 | Within minutes , the men in Rawalpindi realized they were about to face the German battlecruiser , Scharnhorst . |
| 29 | At one extreme , there might be the virtual monoculture of the new agricultural areas , imposed by their orientation towards a remote world market , and intensified , if not created , by the characteristic mechanism of foreign merchant firms in the great port cities which controlled this export trade — the traditional Greeks who ran the Russian corn trade through Odessa , the Bunges and Borns from Hamburg who were about to fulfil the same function for the River Plate countries from Buenos Aires and Montevideo . |
| 30 | After all , they were about to host the 1990 European City of Culture , an award which the tenants in Glasgow felt they richly deserved . |