Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] [pers pn] [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the Duke supported Constantine 's claim he may well have brought Bertrand to Normandy on the theory that it was safer than leaving him behind to foment trouble . |
| 2 | As one group member said : ‘ What I 'd like to see happening is this room set up with the computer and using it regularly to type up the notes from our meetings . ’ |
| 3 | When they were n't running across it , cheered on by the headmaster , they were snipping bits off it and bringing them back to school to put in jars . |
| 4 | We knew that they were testing them , and checking it over and bringing it up to standard , but we did n't know anything about it other than that ! |
| 5 | It 's very , it 's deceptive if you 're not working out what you 're doing and relating it back to the graph , and relating it back to physics , to an experiment you 're doing , someone 's checking the clock every second to see how much further it 's gone . |
| 6 | Nonesuch reverts to its old function , keeping the University as a whole together , telling graduates what is going on in their old alma mater , and keeping them up to date with what their contemporaries are doing . |
| 7 | The reason for storing data and keeping it up to date is to provide information to managers for decisions . |
| 8 | The process of endorsing Notes and passing them on to pay for goods or services from business to business is still quite common . |
| 9 | I used to have Physics at half-nine and every now and then she 'd have an accident in the road so I 'd be running home , changing her and taking her back to nursery , which would mean I 'd be half an hour late . |
| 10 | One of them proposed arresting him as he lay on his bed and taking him off to prison with all the bedclothes . |
| 11 | It must have been really strange for her , going to a new school all on her own , and a convent school at that , with nuns like great black crows floating down the corridors and carrying her off to chapel . |
| 12 | The squash tail is a popular shape on the large all-round funboards , giving easy light wind handling and making it quick to plane . |
| 13 | ‘ Ah , no ! ’ said Isambard , discerning his flight and plucking him back to earth . |