Example sentences of "[vb infin] [be] [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | You see I 've been entrusted with the task of getting him safely back to the Reich and I 've little more than three weeks to do it in . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ You had them all the time — you trailed me round — you bloody filthy lying bastard — you poked my head into every shit-bin in Bristol — you led me up hill and down dale till my feet were dropping off — you made me steal some people 's boat — I could 've been got by the police — I might be festering in jail now — handcuffed — criminal — you do n't care , you 're criminal anyway — I would n't be surprised if you 'd murdered half a dozen innocent people and cut them up and kept their pieces stashed away in the hole where you 've been hiding my bag and my things and my money and my dreams … ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I would be delighted if you would consider being interviewed for the film . |
| 4 | I sometimes thought that he would enjoy being mistaken for the one rather than the other , because he disliked the idea of poetry as a ‘ profession ’ : an attitude which some lesser figures found puzzling . |
| 5 | Just as you may resent being disturbed in the college library , so fellow students do n't enjoy being interrupted in the middle of some important piece of work . |
| 6 | That there is something he does not know is shown by the fact that if he were to gain his sight , he would come to know something that he previously had not known . |
| 7 | CBI gloom and a call from Peter Shore to reflate or resign was met by the advice from Geoffrey Howe to ‘ keep our nerve ’ . |
| 8 | Now uranium erm is , is er a non-renewable resource like oi oil and coal and gas but there 's an awful lot of it in the world and this is erm the reserves of the energy they can give are compared to the remaining reserves of coal or and er gas , you can see it 's one of the largest energy resources on on earth . |
| 9 | When will the tendering process be opened for the craft to which he referred in his statement ? |
| 10 | Some patients , perhaps especially those who express anxiety about the risk of fire or who are known to have experienced a fire , may welcome being told about the fire precautions in the ward . |
| 11 | We can expect being cheated by the Tories , but Mr Quinn can perhaps explain how his party can always find money to pay for perks and excursions to faraway places for councillors and £3.5m expenditure upon the County Hall . |
| 12 | The regime has in fact over-corrected , but the harm which excessive centralisation might do is diminished by the degree of de facto autonomy which many provinces have acquired . |
| 13 | An illustration of the economic damage that flexible exchange rates can inflict is provided by the experience of the UK during 1979 – 81 . |
| 14 | The plea to spread a message that the bombers will not succeed was made by the chairman of the Down Economic Development Agency , Councillor Malachi Curran at a dinner in Newcastle last night . |
| 15 | On no account should direct contact be made with the management or staff of the Company . |
| 16 | Erm what place erm does the convenor see being made in the legal processes to make available to estranged couples the opportunity for erm voluntary conciliation between the parties ? |
| 17 | It is a recognized component of rituals of healing we can still see being practised by the wise men , witch doctors and shamans in ‘ primitive ’ societies and sometimes in the spiritual healing work of evangelical preachers . |
| 18 | Similarly , within the civil service the engineer or architect may resent being bound by the rules and regulations of administrative practices and accountability rather than those of the profession . |
| 19 | Hari felt the impulse to ruffle William 's hair but she knew he would resent being treated like the child he was , boys grew up quickly in the harsh realities of World 's End . |
| 20 | Just as you may resent being disturbed in the college library , so fellow students do n't enjoy being interrupted in the middle of some important piece of work . |
| 21 | Nor did she like being summoned to the cabin next door , but Penrose was a leading Wren . |
| 22 | he does n't l like being tied to the bench does he ? |
| 23 | Does n't like being put on the spot and adopts conceptualising and abstract thinking to counter this . |
| 24 | NOTE Men may not like being taken to the toilet by a woman , nor a woman by a man . |
| 25 | She had a very jolly time in Korea and she does not like being photographed by the Press . |
| 26 | You did n't like being woken in the middle of the night for ice cream , but you sat up and ate it in bed before it melted to please your father . |
| 27 | The few square inches of it that I could see were spoiled by the sticky red blood which had pooled out over them . |
| 28 | It was Dr Who that provided the young Loveday with his earliest musical revelations , as he can remember being transfixed by the time travelling adventures and the theme music ( an early outing into electronic music composed by the legendary Ron Grainer and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop ) . |
| 29 | She swore she could remember being dropped on the floor by the doctor who delivered her . |
| 30 | She could clearly remember the first day that Scott had shown her around , could remember being impressed by the overwhelming glamour of it all . |