Example sentences of "[vb base] be [verb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm up then you can turn round when the smaller people come and say are carving up the price , you can turn round and say , Oh no they 're not that 's the price and that 's the price . |
| 2 | What in fact they want is to find out the basis upon which the plaintiff is making the claim , to tie the plaintiff down to a particular set of allegations before the engineer goes in . |
| 3 | If the constants defining message sizes msgSize , lMsgSize are changed then the corresponding messages must be changed accordingly and these occur at several points in the program . |
| 4 | It also means that if one photographer you know and like is booked up the other one will probably be free to work with you . |
| 5 | … my job is as a musician in education , not a teacher of music , … because I feel that one of the essential jobs that we do is bring out the music , or help out the music that 's already there … not imposing musical ideas upon kids , whether they 're classical , traditional , ethnic , Hungarian or whatever . |
| 6 | You can have one quick move and if it 's a false one well er you made a bad mistake and you 've gone back about er whatsit and I think 's done exactly the same here he 's sacked us and he 's put himself in er in er queer corner s like a game of draughts you know and he 's trying all roads to come out of it . |
| 7 | What we intend is to take up the area of ground you now have roped off , or a part of it — the broken corner of the hypocaust . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Yes , and they 've been reading up the stuff for years . |
| 9 | Now they 've been digging up the garden to make a channel for all electricity to go underground you see . |
| 10 | ‘ You 've been sitting there the whole morning in nothing but that flimsy shift , just staring through the window at all that water . |
| 11 | ‘ We 've been working out the date for the party , ’ Frau Nordern said , producing an enormous desk diary . |
| 12 | Mind you , I 've been keeping up the ice dance so all the canals are frozen and he ca n't get a match to fish , ’ joked Dave , who runs Midlands Angling Products . |
| 13 | Despite it all , though , you may end up looking a bit foolish if you find you 've been barking up the wrong tree . |
| 14 | Now rugby union 's league season is coming to the final fences … three games to go and there 's better news of Gloucester … the Cherry and Whites who 've been fighting off the threat of relegation all season won at Northampton on saturday and should be safe … |
| 15 | EURO Disney may be officially opening tomorrow , but tens of thousands of guests and Disney employees have been trying out the rides this week . |
| 16 | But all the way through this chapter I have been asserting just the contrary . |
| 17 | The Family Division of the High Court has jurisdiction to hear public law cases which have been transferred up the court system or issued at High Court level . |
| 18 | They were always a big league band in the States , but it 's only in the last five years or so that they have been rising up the Euro league . |
| 19 | The jury in the James Bulger murder trial at Preston have been hearing how the two eleven year old boys accused of murder blamed each other for most of the violence . |
| 20 | Mothers of younger and younger children have been taking on the dual burden of paid work and child rearing ( see Hunt , 1968 ; Martin and Roberts , 1984 ; Joshi , 1985 ) . |
| 21 | Cricket now … the amateur players of the Minor Counties have been taking on the game 's elite in the first round of the Nat West Trophy . |
| 22 | ‘ As a consequence of these deaths , the very highest levels have been cranking up the troops to find who did this . ’ |
| 23 | There and in its environs , this week , have been played out the shows of Kenneth Baker as Kenneth Branagh , Michael Heseltine as Alvin Stardust , and Geoffrey Howe as Geoffrey Howe . |
| 24 | There are three equipments that have been selected where the contracts have not actually yet been placed . |
| 25 | Now I want you to imagine you have been digging up the garden , ready for planting . |
| 26 | 20 years after Joan Main disappeared , police officers have been digging up the garden of her former husband 's house . |
| 27 | TOLERABLY familiar with a general election 's orchestration , I have been wondering why the music in this one is so unfamiliar . |
| 28 | For the past 23 years Unionists have been saying exactly the same thing with regard to both security policy and political policy . |
| 29 | As the elected representatives of governing bodies of Scottish sport we have been following closely the lottery bill 's progress through Parliament . |
| 30 | Hundreds of kites have been brightening up the skies at a national kite festival . |