Example sentences of "[be] [adv prt] [subord] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maxim drove it slowly , en-joying the first real countryside he had been in since the hot weather began . |
| 2 | ‘ What I say , constable , is ’ — and now it was Arthur speaking — ‘ there 's such a thing as 'arassment , that 's what they 've told me when I 've been up afore the old bloke . |
| 3 | So y y y you , you , you , you 've got at least three things which are all sort of brewing up there and you think good grief what a , what a , what a state to be in because the poor doctor does n't know what on earth to do , poor Jan does n't know , well it 's worse for Jan cos she 's sitting there thinking I 'm going potty or , you know , ca n't stand properly or you know is leaning over or , or numb down one side of her face or , or or whatever it was , it was i i it was the , the dizziness I think actually which which was most alarming . |
| 4 | And then Dawn , she rung work to say she would n't be in because the wee woman she |
| 5 | ‘ They follow on from the Beatnik look and have actually been around since the Sixties , ’ a spokesman for the Natural Shoe Store in Covent Garden says . |
| 6 | Half the Scots were over before the English decided to come on , but by then it was too late to effect a halt to the crossing . |
| 7 | Unfortunately despite the wide range , the stock did not include paste so they were up until the early hours , matching and fastening the wallpaper on with drawing pins . |
| 8 | It 's on until the 28th and the catalogue has an essay by Kathleen Slavin . |
| 9 | The basic divide is over whether the future management objectives can be achieved on a voluntary basis , as at present , or whether they should be taken on by a powerful national park authority , with separate funding and planning powers . |
| 10 | The game was up when the resulting record deficit on the balance of payments current account was registered , and well publicised by Labour , before the 1964 election . |
| 11 | In England , at least , rural depopulation is now regarded as less of a problem than it was up until the 1940s . |
| 12 | MacIver had told police : ‘ I just made sure no-one was about while the other two men went into the cab , got the driver and drove off . ’ |