Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv prt] and [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been talking about the rumble with the Daughters of the American Revolution , playing with Seth 's glasses , putting them on and taking them off . |
| 2 | Men can practise putting them on and feeling comfortable with them on their own so that they feel less awkward with someone else . |
| 3 | This consisted mainly of shutting them in and leaving them be — go in sometime after midnight perhaps , switch off the TV , unplug the Commodore , pick up the comic books and rearrange the covers , but that was about it . |
| 4 | He looked at Rosie and Holly , drawing them in and lowering his voice for effect . |
| 5 | Only after ‘ tedious battering the top thereof with pick-axes ’ did they eventually undermine two of its six sides bringing them down and leaving the tower in the state in which it is today . |
| 6 | The herbicide Agent Orange and all that it represents , from carpet bombing of rainforests to bulldozing them down and removing their topsoil , managed to demolish a fifth of Vietnam 's tree cover and to replace it , in great stretches , with a moonscape of bomb craters . |
| 7 | We discovered that by making permanent changes to their usual diets individuals felt that their general health improved dramatically ; they felt far better mentally , and they managed to lose those ugly pounds of flesh that had been slowing them down and stubbing their ego . |
| 8 | back and they were disgusted so they 've taken them down and gon na make me a complete new set . |
| 9 | ‘ Patience , Emily , all in good time , what about inviting me in and offering me a drink , the grass here is quite damp you know , and in those silly slippers , you 'll catch your death . ’ |
| 10 | He saw that two men were now holding me , pushing me down and punching me and he recognized the man who was walking up the stairs . |
| 11 | I had not before realised that my canoe had been following me but I soon felt it as the point hit my back and then went down underneath me , dragging me down and sandwiching me between the canoe and the tree . |
| 12 | Far around , on all sides , stood the orderly rows of beans , securing them against hostile approach , roofing them over and covering their scent . |
| 13 | A report circulated in the spring of 1939 admitted that the camps ‘ became slave markets where people with the best intentions in the world went to help one child , yet unconsciously did harm to many by looking them over and rejecting them ’ . |
| 14 | They did n't want any cops pulling them over and asking them what they were doing with a man tied to a chair in the back of their truck . |
| 15 | It is a bit like using spectacles to see with , and taking them off and looking at them . |
| 16 | I mean if you watch a child , and I have a seven year old boy , playing stacking cards or dominoes is the current thing in our house , watching them stack them and then knocking them off and watching them fall and the way they fall , the amount of work which is involved there in structures and forces and the nature of gravity and the way things behave under gravity fascinate them . |
| 17 | I mean if you watch a child , and I have a seven year old boy , playing stacking cards or dominoes is the current thing in our house , watching them stack them and then knocking them off and watching them fall and the way they fall , the amount of work which is involved there in structures and forces and the nature of gravity and the way things behave under gravity fascinate them . |
| 18 | So , for example , we see the pupils messing around , ‘ to get back at the teachers for telling them off and putting them in detention , ’ or using physical violence after being unjustly accused of a misdemeanour , or being given a ‘ soft ’ teacher . |
| 19 | I mean that does n't help as well , I know Sainsbury 's or Tesco 's and you have to keep taking them off and putting them on |
| 20 | And I do n't know which has nagged at me most , the lack of courage shown by this brave man in fending me off and declining to discuss what he had done , or my lack of courage in declining to write about it . |
| 21 | I fell asleep and remember him lifting me off and putting me on the settee cushion but I 'd had a tiring evening and hardly stirred . |
| 22 | If you stare at a Rottweiler it thinks you are challenging it and goes for you immediately , knocking you down and tearing your throat out . |
| 23 | At this point Mr Wilson the Strict Deputy Head arrived ( every school with more than one Deputy Head has a ‘ Strict ’ one for telling you off and keeping order in assemblies , and a ‘ Friendly ’ one for helping you when you 've been bullied ) . |
| 24 | If they suss out that you 're a fanatical prospector they 'll have a great time winding you up and sending you off on a series of wild goose chases . |
| 25 | Oh I see so it is a case of open you up and putting , inserting these staples must be |
| 26 | ‘ And they have been in touch , indicated their interest in pulling you out and requesting more information as to your whereabouts . ’ |
| 27 | But what brought her to the point of retaliation was the sight of his hands mauling a plate of sliced mutton , digging his fingers into the pieces of meat and snatching them up and trying to screw them up like pieces of paper and hurl them at the bookcase . |
| 28 | Maybe Jack was rounding them up and moving them to another field . |
| 29 | They are potentially very dangerous and what we are worried about is members of the public picking them up and taking them home as souvenirs . ’ |
| 30 | " Oh , they love it when the kids are babies , dressing them up and looking after them , everybody loves babies , but it 's different when they get older , " they say . |