Example sentences of "[v-ing] [indef pn] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er well , there was the highly immoral thing called overtime , erm if you had too much overtime you was keeping someone out of job . |
| 2 | The owner has spared no money or effort in keeping everything up to class A1 condition . |
| 3 | You 're spelling everything out for them , 'cos the poor dears are n't very bright , are they ? |
| 4 | ‘ I can get out my binoculars to check on how many customers we 've got — and see if anyone 's nicking anything out of the till . ’ |
| 5 | It was n't just a matter of meeting an old comedian ; I was meeting someone out of the dustier corners of my private pantheon . |
| 6 | To me , sexuality is romance and love and poetry and beauty , not picking somebody up on the street and using each other then telling them to fuck off and burning them with a cigarette . |
| 7 | Tallis could not see clearly but he seemed to be pushing something on to the staff , working it round until , with a crack , it slid into position . |
| 8 | Er , that 's costing something up to ten million pounds approximately . |
| 9 | ‘ Have you been hatching something up with her — to stow me away ? ’ |
| 10 | They had , it transpired , been training one up for some time . |
| 11 | The input resistor values in the mixer circuit ( R13–R18 ) have therefore been chosen to simulate this effect by giving progressively larger attenuation from tapping one through to tapping six on IC3 . |
| 12 | Pertamina head office was especially active during the Flores emergency , acting mainly as central co-ordinator for gifts of money and clothing , and passing everything on to the disaster relief co-ordinators . |
| 13 | When picking something up from the floor , stand slightly in front and to the side of the object ; then , keeping the head upright , bend the knee and , still looking forward , pick up the object by feel ; do not look down . |
| 14 | When the principal exemplars of this class are dramatically eliminated the message is clear : middlemanship destroys from within , and the act of passing something on without truly changing or improving it is psychologically nullifying . |
| 15 | Actually , Maximum John was sunnily good-humoured on Monday , refraining entirely from picking anybody up by the lapels to ask them , ‘ You what ? |
| 16 | Professionally , if I felt there was a risk I should want to know that I was clear so I was certain there was no danger of me passing anything on to a patient or a future partner . |
| 17 | He was pulling something out of the hedge . |
| 18 | leading one on to worship |
| 19 | She remained silent for a while , evidently turning something over in her mind . |
| 20 | She felt that the atmosphere between them was suddenly much easier although he said nothing for a moment but kept on looking at her as if he were turning something over in his mind . |
| 21 | Holwell got a second after the interval with the Exmouth captain , Rosie Goodridge , pulling one back in the last minute . |
| 22 | With more than a thousand videos at up to fifty pounds each and many more magazines fetching anything up to thirty pounds apiece this is the biggest haul ever for the Northants force . |
| 23 | Did n't particularly hate it , I du n no , I mean I had no idea that they were camping anything up from that record . |
| 24 | ‘ Why should she do that ? ’ my mother had asked scornfully , slapping something down on the kitchen table a fish , I think . |
| 25 | He was eating something out of a box . |
| 26 | And now the old baggage was twisting everything ; building something out of nothing . |
| 27 | ‘ Old people bringing something out of the attic they 've never cared for , and then seeing it fetch thousands of pounds at auction . |
| 28 | ‘ You keep bringing everything back to money . ’ |
| 29 | Zak himself was calling everyone back into the dining room , saying they should all stay together until we reached Sudbury , which would be soon . |
| 30 | I pulled the short straw and could not drink as I had the job of getting everyone up in the morning and doing the first two hours driving . |