Example sentences of "[v-ing] i [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 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't want the feckin' Gardai pullin' me up for drunken drivin' . ’ |
| 7 | This woman who , who keeps phoning me up about all this oil pollution on her land . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Anyone fancy helping me out on a few voodoo dolls dressed in a famous black with blue/orange trim kit ? : - ) |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ Bless you for helping me out with the Watsons . |
| 13 | She she you know she was slagging me off like anything right . |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | They 'll be easing me on as the new presenter so as not to put too much pressure on me . |
| 16 | Er I thought you did well in erm giving yourself credibility by talking about the shares , oh yes you can have two hundred and fifty pounds per month in the shares and they 've done well and I said oh yes they have done well , and I felt good that you were praising me up for being such a clever chap , and so I thought that was all , all jolly good stuff . |
| 17 | ‘ I told myself it was because of the play , but deep down there was something driving me back to you . ’ |
| 18 | I have the right to know what she is doing and , if she is having an affair , it has got to stop because it is driving me out of my mind . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Dear God , Rory , ’ he murmured , ‘ you 're driving me out of my mind ! ’ |
| 20 | They pulled me up off the floor with my hands up behind my back and they were walking me out of the chemist with my arms up and my head pushed down and one of them was kicking me in the back of my legs to get me over to the car . |
| 21 | ’ I do n't recall you being so keen to leave while your lover-boy was knocking me around in Fif 's last night ’ . |
| 22 | And that was it and erm so then everybody 's saying so , you know , I 'll come banging on your door and saying what do you think you 're doing , you know , knocking me down to eighty five pounds a week or , or whatever it is and , you know , obviously there were various feedbacks from that and then the summing up of it was , so is that what you 're going to do to the D S S when you , when you retire ? |
| 23 | I just want to say a big THANK YOU to the organisers and correspondents for keeping me up to date with the progress of THE WHITES this season . |
| 24 | They say they 're keeping me in for observation . |
| 25 | still keeping me out of mischief . |
| 26 | Still keeping me out of mischief . |
| 27 | Mind you , the accountant , C.J. Broderick , soon saw what was happening , but it took the best part of a year to re-arrange matters so that the newspaper could save money by hiring me back at $28 per week . |
| 28 | In two seconds you 'd be wanting me back for something . " |
| 29 | Some more guests arrived and pushed by me , pushing me on to her . |
| 30 | I thought this was very unfair and erm , but then luckily really because erm I do n't think I would have let the job would have been difficult even if er I 'd had my wife as , for transporting me around to these various people . |