Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] they [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Were they paid just for tying the boats up or for bringing them up the estuary as well ? |
| 2 | For the day , for bringing them down . |
| 3 | I was just worried that you 'd be furious with me for bringing them down here when you were out of the country . |
| 4 | I 'm all for bringing them in . ’ |
| 5 | Anyway , on a brighter note … apparently the Arsenal mailing list are pissed off by the Scum mailing list for slagging them off . |
| 6 | These arguments are not self-evident and it may be worth spelling them out . |
| 7 | ‘ My reasons for so soon destroying my drawings were these ; though I dare say that they do n't appear so rational to any one but myself : I was obliged to limit the work — in order to get more subscribers — & to erase the drawings — because the expense is considerable for keeping them on , & I have pretty great difficulty in paying my monthly charges , — for to pay colourer & printer monthly I am obstinately pre-possessed — since I had rather be at the bottom of the River Thames — than be one week in debt — be it never so small . |
| 8 | ‘ He 's got a bee in his bonnet about keeping them out of remand homes and prison . |
| 9 | I think we 've probably been a bit lax about checking them out . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Which is not surprising , ’ said Narouz , returning after chivvying them out . |
| 11 | Some radiometer readings became corrupted after writing them down and are wholly or partly lost . |
| 12 | Mums found their babies sucking the studs after pulling them off . |
| 13 | But after turning them over to reveal the palms , he declared : ‘ But the palms are so beautiful , the lines so clear and simple , the shape so pure . ’ |
| 14 | After towing them back to their ship we were friends for life and the word soon went round the fleet . |
| 15 | When the tea was over Maggie brought out two deck chairs from the summer house and after putting them up she pointed to one , saying , ‘ Make yourself comfortable , I 'm going to help Aunt clear up . |
| 16 | Here I have used a soft pencil to describe the birds after tracing them out . |
| 17 | My paper for writing them on ! |
| 18 | It is worth searching them out . |
| 19 | Instead of rooting them out and replacing them , we can leave them undisturbed until they are intermingled with the new presuppositions of Christian truth which should be the sole foundation of the Christian 's mind . |
| 20 | When your potential catchment is broader based you have to find additional ways of drawing them in . |
| 21 | As they dismounted it crossed Floy 's mind that the longer they could delay , the better chance Fenella and Caspar had of catching them up . |
| 22 | Meanwhile , the Whips pursued the government in the hope of catching them out in a snap vote ; at the least this would disrupt their progress and there seemed an outside chance that the government would tire of the interminable pressure and throw in the sponge . |
| 23 | Since he regarded the crutches as extensions of his arms he had the habit of windmilling them about in moments of excitement . |
| 24 | It is clear that the derivation of the high number of word paths from mid-classes and the problem of filtering them out at the lexical access stage means that syntactic/semantic information must be brought to bear as soon as words are accessed . |
| 25 | He issues this warning to parents : ‘ Let them not too much apply themselves to the disposition of their children ’ — in short , not to become obsessed with the whole business of bringing them up . |
| 26 | The question of how to discipline children has always been of central importance to the whole enterprise of bringing them up . |
| 27 | Or , more probably , since he is a serving naval officer , that the paternal grandmother , the Queen , was likely to make a better job than their mother of bringing them up . |
| 28 | Because a woman , by virtue of giving birth to a succession of children , is then landed with the task of bringing them up , is no cause to suppose children are best taught by the handful , the dozen , the score . |
| 29 | I had three easy pregnancies , three easy births and I loved every minute of bringing them up . |
| 30 | You must get some means of hanging them up . |