Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What happened was I happened to be in the corridors there and the gentleman came in , that 's on the Friday afternoon , gentleman came in and asked to see the Headmaster , so I took him along to see who was the Headmaster then , and erm shortly after that I was called up to see and erm asked me if I 'd like to apply for this job because had seen me erm bringing me up to , bringing him up to see and he said erm , well what about that young fella who brought me up there and would he like to apply . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Gently , making fun of me a little bit , bringing me back to earth . |
| 4 | ‘ Perhaps you could help Cook to wash up , ’ she suggested , bringing me down to earth with a bang . |
| 5 | The analysis also confirms the strong record of the course in retaining students and seeing them through to their final qualifications . |
| 6 | a talisman , a passport — and with Wood seeing them out onto the empty streets , he moved off through the cool , misty town , into Newlands Valley , over towards Buttermere , his heart hammering him on to get back to her before it was too late . |
| 7 | When I had left him for Bath , he had said , sadly , seeing me off at Salamanca station : ‘ I should have come with you when your father died . |
| 8 | The element of playing to the gallery is conserved in the way they portray the fight as a piece of street theatre , with the adults cheering them on from the balconies , while the girls offer silent support , as the boys defend the honour of the white community against the ‘ black invasion ’ . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Cheering them off on their 230 miles ' journey was TV 's ‘ Mr Blobby ’ and Mr John Lambeth , secretary and chief executive of LVFS . |
| 12 | Cheering them off on their 230 miles ' journey was TV 's ‘ Mr Blobby ’ and Mr John Lambeth , secretary and chief executive of LVFS . |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't want the feckin' Gardai pullin' me up for drunken drivin' . ’ |
| 14 | This woman who , who keeps phoning me up about all this oil pollution on her land . |
| 15 | Since he regarded the crutches as extensions of his arms he had the habit of windmilling them about in moments of excitement . |
| 16 | Once they had turned the Mount , with the full span of the ice shining before them , the two men gathered pace , at once in harmony and contention , drawing vigour from the presence of the young woman between them , who cried out , not in fear but encouraging them on to greater exertions . |
| 17 | ‘ A lot of the simpler souls ’ , said Quigley , ‘ probably think a great big snake is going to slither out at them and start gobbling them up in a few years . ’ |
| 18 | Where the eye often used to be bruised by hectic entrances and exits , Page now keeps his dancers on the stage , shifting them around in complex patterns or gathering them up in long architectural phrases . |
| 19 | But then , from what I hear , that 's overrun with bairns ; they 've stopped gathering them in from the streets . |
| 20 | To generate a biological molecule like haemoglobin , the red pigment in blood , by simple sieving would be equivalent to taking all the amino-acid building blocks of haemoglobin , jumbling them up at random , and hoping that the haemoglobin molecule would reconstitute itself by sheer luck . |
| 21 | Now I was in a position to move on ; but something had taken root deeper than the superficialities of travelling — a feeling that my story was not here , that something was drawing me back to Peru . |
| 22 | Under that system an entrepreneur would pay the state to utilize the labour of the prisoners , normally by contracting them out to local farms . |
| 23 | Anyone fancy helping me out on a few voodoo dolls dressed in a famous black with blue/orange trim kit ? : - ) |
| 24 | ‘ A few people 's names have been mentioned , but at the moment Ian Leckie is going to look after the youth team , with John Hope helping me out on a Saturday . |
| 25 | ‘ A few people 's names have been mentioned , but at the moment Ian Leckie is going to look after the youth team , with John Hope helping me out on a Saturday . |
| 26 | ‘ Bless you for helping me out with the Watsons . |
| 27 | She she you know she was slagging me off like anything right . |
| 28 | The human race is eating them up at a staggering rate . |
| 29 | But since he 's been up here , he 's been eating me out of house and home and he does n't pay for it |
| 30 | You 're sticking them back into a |