Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [pers pn] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes as the light of the sun catches them , you see the Odonata fluttering down into them to receive the gifts that mourners leave there . |
| 2 | How about taking an afternoon off next week and driving over with me to have a look round ? |
| 3 | There was an embarrassing moment when I thought he was walking over to me to begin the programme and I got up to greet him . |
| 4 | He gave a short laugh , twisting back from her to lift her chin , inspect her shattered face . |
| 5 | The Earth was pushing up on it to stop it falling through the ground . |
| 6 | My wife criticises my clothes and is always going on at me to dress better . |
| 7 | By the time the Warriors had reached the objective , the riflemen in the back had been sufficiently aware of what was going on around them to know that their own survival would depend on the spirit of fight they could produce . |
| 8 | Do you want the kind of holiday they are willing to consider , or will you be going along with it to satisfy them ? |
| 9 | When Cousteau comes back with the divers and equipment , Van Gelder and I are going down with them to have a look at this plane . |
| 10 | leaving it and then going back to it to see if you could integrate it plus some graphs . |
| 11 | There were lots of interesting things lying around for them to eat and together they munched their way through a large book . |
| 12 | There are pressures building up for me to do all sorts of things but I do n't want to accept them , ’ she says confidently , her blue eyes filled with a new purpose . |
| 13 | He half-expected to hear Kate or Massingham moving up beside him to watch , unspeaking but with interested eyes , his untypical act of sentimental folly . |
| 14 | When he was once again close to his own explosion , holding back for her to join him , she said , ‘ Stay . ’ |
| 15 | Even so , Artemis had no time to relax or to shout at whoever it was still charging up beside her to slow down because the hill was beginning to flatten out into the dip and they were fast approaching the big open ditch . |
| 16 | Just to say that we do monitor the numbers going into , to residential care very very closely so we would we would be able to tell sort of reasonably early in the year if things were going erm way of our projections of our predictions and er we would obviously be coming back to you to see to er to change our budgets erm if , if that proved necessary . |
| 17 | He is hurt and shaken , but he insisted on coming back with me to say thank you for making the message that warned him away from the bog . |
| 18 | She stood to one side as the woman got up and , casting the strait-jacket aside , went across to the cot , bending down over it to lift and cradle the child . |
| 19 | He moved swiftly , opening the door to the corridor and standing back for her to go through . |
| 20 | She drank , and he flung the glass down , standing back from her to see what she did . |
| 21 | I 'd hired a team of private investigators to keep an eye on you after your house was ransacked , and I was just ringing through to them to let them know where you were . ’ |