Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | POLICE in County Durham are stepping up the fight against crime after a wide ranging shake-up in senior personnel . |
| 2 | You are to search out the traitor Raphael and , when you find him , kill him or bring him back for me . ’ |
| 3 | Civil war has been eating up the country for five years . |
| 4 | It might be very hard for Ireland to get five on the team , but the way things are shaping up the selectors will probably not care where the players come from . |
| 5 | We also pledge that when we are drawing up the membership of the commission we shall take into account his earlier suggestions about widening the membership . |
| 6 | As for Dieter Sims , I do n't know much about him except that he 's been building up the East German unit under Husband 's wing . |
| 7 | Siban commands , and I am to carry out the reconnaissance . ’ |
| 8 | But I do n't know that actually killing a man because he 's been touching up the boys would altogether hang together as a motive . ’ |
| 9 | The usual south-east Londoners are hanging about the bus stop . |
| 10 | He handed her her jacket , which had been hanging on the back of her chair . |
| 11 | Images , feelings and emotions are drained down the cords and into the hands of the Great Enchanter , who crushes them into a frail stream of dust , all that remains of the soul . |
| 12 | Ratners marketing director Simon de Mille says : ‘ We are speeding up the process . |
| 13 | De Burgh is speaking us very fairly and friendly , but both his hands are gathering up the borders round us . |
| 14 | Gallimard , meanwhile , are bringing out the correspondence between Picasso and Apollinaire , a monograph on Masson by Bernard Noël , and a study of Leonardo and Titian by David Rosand , provisionally entitled La trace de l'artiste . |
| 15 | In the former , all of X , Y , and Z are shown — the relationships between their changes are illustrated and one could estimate from it the ways in which the various terms in the equations are bringing about the changes . |
| 16 | ‘ The Klans are toning down the rhetoric to make themselves more palatable to Americans . |
| 17 | Say they just going for a walk , yeah , and you come across this , say this young kid has been climbing up the trees and hurt his leg , you 're the only person around , so you , you 've got to get help yeah , cos he 's losing a lot of blood , but you 've got to stop his blood same time as you 've got to get help , yeah , so what 's the priority , you just stay |
| 18 | Finally , as Pete had been opening out the canvas deck cover on a relaunched Fairline Fury while Ted paced the dock alongside , he 'd looked up at his employer and said , ‘ You really want to know ? ’ |
| 19 | The eggs need to be well protected since they are carried on the wind , continually exposed to the sun 's fierce rays , and blown across the sand . |
| 20 | It bursts at internals to release into the atmosphere an enormous number of rusty-red spores which are carried on the breeze to germinate in distant damp timber , starting the process afresh . |
| 21 | Genes controlling coat pattern are carried on the X chromosome and if one X carries a gene that gives colour and the other X carries an inactive gene , the different patches of tissue containing the different inactivated X chromosomes show up as patches of different colours . |
| 22 | The feelings that are carried up the aisle or into the registry office are presumably countless . |
| 23 | Eggs escape under the bursa of the male and are carried up the trachea in the excess mucus produced in response to infection : they are then swallowed and passed in the faeces . |
| 24 | Hundreds of kites have been brightening up the skies at a national kite festival . |
| 25 | This board of directors has just been spelling out the fact that we 're in big trouble ; we 're heavily in debt , we 're showing a … a net loss before taxation … we can barely afford this month 's wages bills , we ca n't meet half our orders … all that does n't just come blazing in overnight after an accident with the new singeing machine in the printing plant … ’ |
| 26 | Fran Bennett , CPAG director , suggests both major parties are softening up the public for more means-testing and fewer rights to universal benefits . |
| 27 | So that was why he 'd been in the club so often over the past few weeks — he 'd been checking out the lie of the land , assessing the place as a possible investment . |
| 28 | Ranchers are tearing down the rainforests to make hamburgers . |
| 29 | At the head of the parade was a blue banner bearing the words ‘ Civil Rights March ’ , which had been carried on the Coalisland — Dungannon march . |
| 30 | As soon as these orders had been carried out the prisoners started to leave . |