Example sentences of "[v-ing] they [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He pulls the top part of the metal cover further up , and the lower half sinks at the same time ; he reaches in and gathers an armful of logs , bringing them over to the hearth . |
| 2 | You add all this other information and you constantly do that throughout the 24 hour day by saying that , ‘ it 's 11 o'clock , time for your coffee ’ , ‘ it 's twelve o'clock , it 's time for lunch ’ , and constantly giving your name and bringing them back to the present . ’ |
| 3 | His occupation , which was that of picking up men in a neighbouring public house , with which he had a working arrangement , during the evening hours , and bringing them back to the boat , was not particularly profitable . |
| 4 | Still , Melissa was pleasant enough and said Hello and asked if I minded driving them back to the village . |
| 5 | Allow the applied force gradually to separate your knees , driving them down to the mat . |
| 6 | Planting consists merely of tossing them on to the surface of the water . |
| 7 | Perhaps the best way to familiarise yourself with the sound of specific intervals is by relating them back to the major scale based on the root of the given chord . |
| 8 | The goods always cost more than the mere monetary price ; and it is the object of the system to externalise these costs , by passing them on to the poor or to the impaired resource-base of the earth , and by inviting even the rich to live in collusive dissociation from the costs they , too , must pay . |
| 9 | If these two signals differ significantly in level , you will need to balance them up at the mixer before passing them on to the camcorder . |
| 10 | The Institute is concerned , however , that the duty may lead to over-reporting by auditors or to unnecessary formality in preparation of reports , which could cause delay in passing them on to the Bank . |
| 11 | Then the ground shook again ; this time it was Steve , ordering them back to the kitchen . |
| 12 | The hunt was called off : the whippers-in and the huntsmen despatched , Benjamin ordering them back to the manor and telling them to bring down two stretchers , wine and bandages . |
| 13 | The last recommendation was seized upon by critics who calculate that storing the most frequently-used books high up in the four towers will create a considerable time delay in transporting them down to the reading areas . |
| 14 | Finish off the sides by turning them in to the wrong side on the creaselines , with the interlining . |
| 15 | Servants came running to take their horses , leading them back to the stables . |
| 16 | It has become a specialist in adding value to chemicals and selling them on to the major companies . |
| 17 | For example , if the price of BP October calls with an exercise price of 220p were only 10p then investors could buy the calls and exercise by buying the shares at 220p making a total purchase price of 230p and selling them back to the market for 237p thus making a profit of 7p per share . |
| 18 | He was wearing an apron which made him look like a housewife , and tinkering with glass eyes , taking them out of a box and holding them up to the empty sockets of the dead bird , trying to find a matching pair that fitted . |
| 19 | It needed people to work all night sending out subscription copies , getting them down to the all-night post office . |
| 20 | The miners themselves probably found some sort of lodgings in the area but also spent most of their time living in small draughty shelters or " hutts " built near to their work places only severe weather shifting them down to the valley bottoms . |
| 21 | But felling trees , chopping them up and hauling them back to the laboratory for tests costs time and cash . |
| 22 | I became very interested in the trade union movement and my first appointment was as a collector in collecting the union dues and taking them up to the union office . |
| 23 | ‘ We came here the Saturday before last and won in the League , now we 're pleased to be taking them back to the Bridge this time . |
| 24 | There was no advantage in taking them back to the barn where they 'd been born , as when we found them they were too young ever to have been out of it , so would n't have known their way around . |
| 25 | The road would be turning east soon , and taking them back to the main road so that they could turn south and walk back to the house . |
| 26 | The timber and the bath and such came across by boat into the bay there , and a fine job they had dragging them up to the house . ’ |
| 27 | had to keep dragging them off to the toilet , they 'd never seen blind children you see they 'd all seen adults |
| 28 | Many schools were established by communities on a self-help basis , with the intention of handing them over to the government . |
| 29 | They all go in the bin because we have abandoned the process that we adopted some years ago of posting them back to the county officials and the councillors because that was not having any effect . |
| 30 | At one end we should have the ancient Palace of Westminster bringing down our historical associations from the times of the early Saxon kings , and at the other we should have the Palace of Whitehall carrying them on to the revolution … |