Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [prep] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now Holt and Harris both have many wise , enlightened and humane observations to make about some of the injustices which we inflict upon children , but as these remarks show , putting them right without inflicting equally grave injustice is no easy matter . |
| 2 | It serves them right for playing a game in which even the winners become losers if they try to repeat their success . |
| 3 | Well , it would serve them right for treating her like a baby . |
| 4 | Now is the time to prove them right by entering our Christmas literary quiz — and as an added incentive we are offering a bottle of Glenmorangie for the first correct entry drawn out of the hat . |
| 5 | Wear support tights ( these also offer support to the abdomen ) and put them on before getting out of bed ( keep your pants and tights under your pillow ) . |
| 6 | Buy them cheaply in small plugs , growing them on before planting out . |
| 7 | Sweetman took a pair of polarised sunglasses from his shirt pocket and put them on before inspecting me again . |
| 8 | Three things struck me most in comparing the UK market with my experiences before I arrived here from the Equifax Inc in Atlanta . |
| 9 | She was sure that at some point she 'd given someone the cold shoulder and hurt them badly without noticing . |
| 10 | They made me feel like a dirty slag and serve me right for getting pregnant . |
| 11 | ‘ That serves me right for going out to fetch it fresh . ’ |
| 12 | No , it 's Greg and you that got me on to saying that . |
| 13 | At a conference at Oxford in December 1989 , Professor Randolph Quirk , the famous linguist , attacked me fiercely for including material like this , which could be easily misrepresented by the press . |
| 14 | No — I would n't take them in for fighting . |
| 15 | They set off down the passage and the assistant sealed them in before returning to the shop . |
| 16 | After sowing and gently firming in seeds with a circular tamper , water them in by placing pots in a bowl of water and removing them when the compost is dark and moist . |
| 17 | No it 's not realistic because you know that there are thousands of people involved with the in the Garrimpos and er there is no way you could er shut them down without offering them an alternative . |
| 18 | I suppose we could have pushed ourselves and got these things , but I think we both knew that erm if we did , we 'd probably have to sell them halfway through paying for them . |
| 19 | The final total was 606 , scored in only ten hours of excellent batsmanship , although it was widely felt that the England selectors had helped them along by omitting Foster and playing two spinners , Cook and Miller , on a pitch of low bounce . |
| 20 | Others mention them only in passing or , like the Alliance Commission 's Report on Electoral Reform , not at all . |
| 21 | You have free access to the family outside their house , but when they are inside you can investigate them only by looking through the windows of their house . |
| 22 | Rounding the bend from the top path down towards the stable she was brandishing a stick , beating the cows ' dripping rumps and cursing them aloud for refusing to hurry . |
| 23 | As the water began to boil he tipped the dumplings into the bowl and stirred them gently before leaving them to cook . |
| 24 | Example If you have a paragraph on irony in Conrad 's " Heart of Darkness " , a paragraph on characterisation and a paragraph on narrative closure , you could try to link them together by talking more generally about the abstract relationship between irony , characterisation and narrative closure . |
| 25 | Once into the shelter of the mangrove-bound estuary , he had taken the men off the Zodiac , ordering them below after stacking the dinghy 's cargo along Golden Girl 's side decks . |
| 26 | The kind of people who 'll order a guitar like this Manson will argue in reply that : ( a ) a production guitar will never have a handmade guitar 's combination of all the right bits with that extra edge of quality ; ( b ) it 's obviously better to go for a traditional design than some mutant battle-axe because you 're less likely to get sick of it and they 're a lot easier to customise further and there 's nothing better at fitting into virtually any style of music than an S-type or a T-type ; and ( c ) it 's their money , anyway . |
| 27 | ‘ Put me down for picketing , Bob , ’ says Robyn . |
| 28 | She might have put me down for talking . |
| 29 | She could have put me down for talking |
| 30 | ABC tracked me down after seeing some of the papers in my case and wanted to know if I could confirm what they 'd been told . |