Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just my personal assistant bringing me up to date on some business matters , ’ he added dismissively as he walked over to the other side of the bed , picking up his slim gold watch from a small table . |
| 2 | Gently , making fun of me a little bit , bringing me back to earth . |
| 3 | ‘ Perhaps you could help Cook to wash up , ’ she suggested , bringing me down to earth with a bang . |
| 4 | For the birds , otherwise what will they have to see them through till spring ? |
| 5 | Switch on and move the appropriate levers on the banks of controllers , and the children come running out of the house , little pink-cheeked creatures half an inch high , who turn to wave at Felicity as she comes out on the terrace to see them off to school . |
| 6 | BELVILLE : Since she is apt to fall into fits or at least pretend to do so , prepare her to see me tomorrow after dinner in my mother 's closet . |
| 7 | Thirdly , there is the possibility that abnormalities judged by us to be psychotic in afunctional sense were actually due to organic brain diseases unrecognised at the time ; for reasons discussed previously this would rule them out of court for our purposes . |
| 8 | He would rule them out of necessity . |
| 9 | The receiver then decodes the numbers and turns them back into sound . |
| 10 | If it turns them off at school it will probably turn them off at university . |
| 11 | The Draft Airports ( Northern Ireland ) Order 1993 also includes measures to update legislation controlling airports in the province and bring them broadly into line . |
| 12 | Clench your fists and bring them up to shoulder height , knuckles upward , elbows at your sides . |
| 13 | She does n't avoid the painful issues that divide us — but , as few writers can , she makes us laugh at them and bring them down to size . |
| 14 | ‘ When I went to school , I were n't above eight or nine year old and I used to have to go hawking milk , as I told you , before I went to school ; and then I used to take the empty cans to school , bring them home at dinner-time . |
| 15 | So you just bring them home at lunchtime or something give him a |
| 16 | A very simple way of collecting examples of people talking is to sit them down in front of the camera and get them to talk to it . |
| 17 | Jonathon now worked on model ships under the eye of Uncle Philip and was learning how to carve them directly from wood . |
| 18 | Nenna wished to reply that it was not for the expected reasons — not pride , not resentment , not even the curious acquired characteristics of the river dwellers , which made them scarcely at home in London 's streets . |
| 19 | The big man has been in a clinic since breaking a leg against Crystal Palace last week and the only way he can join in the Reds rise is by cheering them on in front of his telly . |
| 20 | So their own minister held a service at the station , and the agent gave them a good dinner cheering them on in Gaelic , at which they wept , and they went on to settle at Moosomin , where they lived happily ever afterwards . |
| 21 | ‘ I adore you , your body drives me wild with desire , I live for the light in your eyes , my whole being lights up at the thought of you . |
| 22 | Mrs Hollidaye took off her leather gloves and laid them neatly on top of her handbag on the pew beside her , straightened her hat and unhooked a cushion which hung from a brass hook beneath the shelf . |
| 23 | The Health Education Authority advises parents to introduce fruit juices as late as possible and then to dilute them heavily with water . |
| 24 | Many are being refitted with the same smart new decor which will make them easier to spot on the high street . |
| 25 | We met them afterwards on stage . |
| 26 | Asked what concerned them most in connection with nuclear power , respondents named the possibility of accidents , human error and the storage of radioactive waste . |
| 27 | This is not as frightful as it may sound : with self-build projects the council inspectors are usually very helpful , although you should n't badger him/her relentlessly for advice , and employing reputable tradesmen should eliminate any problems with outside labour . |
| 28 | Then laid me gently in bed . |
| 29 | Mrs Brocklebank , had she been here , would no doubt have pointed them out with triumph . |
| 30 | ‘ The archbishop can not compensate me enough for slavery in Salzburg … |