Example sentences of "and be [verb] [adv prt] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | They already have a children 's play room , an art room , conference space and are building up a library . |
| 2 | ‘ We have sent those guidelines to the other two trusts and are setting up a work party involving all three trusts to improve the way we deal with those cases and improve communications . ’ |
| 3 | They have a combined income of £22,000 and are paying off a £42,000 mortgage on their Baker Avenue home . |
| 4 | The birds follow the dog and are lured down a wide tunnel made of netting called a pipe . |
| 5 | Meet Moonshake , one of the blessed few remaining non-conformist independent groups , at Aldgate and be taken on a guided tour of the Ripper 's murder-sites . |
| 6 | The highlight of the event will be tomorrow , when they will get the chance to drive their cars around the original test-track and be taken on a tour of the factory . |
| 7 | It started in the Autumn of eighty-eight , when Phil approached me and said , ‘ Look , we would like to consider putting our services that we do offer to finance in a more effective way ’ , running alongside that was a project being run by Oxfordshire Health Authority where they were sending postal surveys to elderly people ; people over the age of seventy erm sixty-five at one point , and were getting back a huge amount of information on their perceived needs . |
| 8 | Mrs Crumwallis and Mrs Garfitt had run from the serving table and were standing over a boy . |
| 9 | Almost 2,000 took up the invitation during a two-day open house and were taken on a guided tour route which stretched over a mile through the £1.85 billion development . |
| 10 | It had also lost around £300,000 pounds and was staving off a visit from the official receiver . |
| 11 | Quiss was led by the dwarfish scullions , through the banked ranges past gleaming tubs , boiling vats , open fires and grills past rows of massive , wing-nutted pressure cookers guarded by blast screens , under huge n-shaped pipes , bubbling and gurgling and leaking steam , and over the dainty , counter-sunk tracks of a narrow-gauge railway until eventually he saw a wall ahead , and was led up a rickety wooden staircase to a narrow gantry then stopped at a small wooden door set into the wall . |
| 12 | When I entered our room I found Mum had down two more vases and was sorting out a pile of pawn tickets . |
| 13 | A moment later he had returned , and was holding out a balloon glass containing an inch of brandy towards her . |
| 14 | He came across it raiding his fruit garden , unwisely wounded it with buckshot , and was chased up a tree for his trouble . |
| 15 | She had been making a cup of coffee and was leaning over a lit ring on the gas cooker to put the kettle on . |
| 16 | A vote was taken on this and was carried on a decisive majority . |
| 17 | Jim had left , moved on to London and was heading up a new Rapid Response Unit there in connection with HEMS , the Helicopter Emergency Medical Service . |
| 18 | She had drawn the curtains at the house the previous evening and was carrying out a routine check at about 7.30 am when she saw the smashed back porch . |
| 19 | The new methods of mass production , were unsuccessful and was closed down a few years later . |
| 20 | He liked to buy their food ; he even enjoyed cooking it sometimes , and was putting on a little weight . |