Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [pron] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | British tourist Stephen Profitt , who paid £200 for Lucky in Malta , was fined £100 yesterday for bringing her into the country without a licence . |
| 2 | ‘ As far as I and the society is concerned that was a warm-blooded animal that can suffer pain and starvation , just like any human being , and we will not apologise for bringing it to the court 's attention , ’ he said . |
| 3 | I have no compunction about seeing you in the gutter . |
| 4 | A traditional device for drawing us beyond the possibility of sweetening by sadism , right to the viewpoint of the dying man , is the death speech , at its starkest when Agamemnon cries offstage that he has been struck his mortal blow . |
| 5 | The core of Plant 's argument is a careful statement of the case for social citizenship and the reasons for preferring it to the philosophy of the New Right . |
| 6 | Nadirpur spoke to his office in Monaco and left instructions for contacting him at the IAP offices in London . |
| 7 | Suspended for a week by the club , fined £2,000 and dropped following misbehaviour at a supporters ' dinner , Merson spoke of the 89th-minute winner that restored Arsenal to the top as a personal thankyou to Arsenal 's players and staff for assisting him on the road to recovery . |
| 8 | It is worth reminding him of the fact that Japan 's economy grew by 4.5 per cent. , and ours shrank by 2.5 per cent . |
| 9 | Severe overcrowding in the urban areas was usually cited as the reason for keeping them in the countryside , but there were probably underlying political motives . |
| 10 | The hypothesis that can explain bat navigation is a good candidate for explaining anything in the world of life , and if Paley 's explanation for any one of his examples was wrong we ca n't make it right by multiplying up examples . |
| 11 | Water management is the major part of fishkeeping — but I do have this fantasy about keeping it to the minimum and this partly explains the filtration system I am suggesting , based on a fairly standard undergravel . |
| 12 | On the Ukrainian tour , Houghton thought the band were too fervid about keeping it in the family . |
| 13 | She answered the telephone , thanked the Martellis for thanking her for the party . |
| 14 | Do n't blame yourself for that choice ; you had reasons for adopting it at the time . |
| 15 | To explain the-timidity of these people , we need look no further than the example of Arthur Jensen , who , after devoting himself to the study of educationally significant individual differences , is declared by the press to be an advocate of segregated schooling for ‘ poor and black children ’ . |
| 16 | In particular Jan had been impressed with Kylie after seeing her on The Zoo Family . |
| 17 | If the user has the authority to do so , modules may be entered into LIFESPAN after including them in the module header of a package and instructing LIFESPAN to enter them . |
| 18 | Stella was afraid Babs might tell Dotty that she did n't wear a slip and that Dotty would rush out and buy her one , just as she had bought her a brassière after catching her in the wardrobe with her arms above her head about to be fitted for her Ptolemy costume . |
| 19 | Left alone with Carrie , Joe sat watching her pour the boiling water into the earthenware teapot , and after bringing it to the table and setting it on a stand , she smiled at him and said softly , ‘ How are you ? ’ |
| 20 | BRITISH spy Ian Spiro left bloody fingerprints smeared on his son 's bedroom walls after blasting him in the head twice with a handgun . |
| 21 | ‘ Winning the Ulster final of the Barton Shield against Warrenpoint was a bit of a fairytale , after defeating them in the final of the Senior Cup ! |
| 22 | After establishing myself in the team I have only been dropped once , that was by John Duncan and I deserved it . ’ |
| 23 | All in all , it is in no way surprising that Nietzsche should have put them to one side soon after writing them at the turn of the year . |
| 24 | Connect the wiring after passing it through the hole in the new rose . |
| 25 | Celtic 's offer of around eighty thousand pounds stands and Macari is now considering a package to take him from Stoke City where he 's a firm favourite with the fans after leading them into the English First Division . |
| 26 | I was worried 'e was gon na take up boxin' after doin' it in the army . |
| 27 | Its real mother will have to be put down after injuring herself during the birth , and the owners fear this could leave the young Arabian horse without the vital care it needs . |
| 28 | Well erm erm had a word with erm who was about oh fourth in line in the erm education hierarchy in those days and erm then spoke to who was the Chief Education Officer and er , I think they were a bit erm , bit apprehensive about employing a blind typist because erm it was something that they had never had any experience of but in the end they thought it was worth a try and er especially after supporting me at the College and erm also perhaps they had in mind that many of the erm employees would be leaving if war broke out and erm , in fact by that time war had probably started |
| 29 | After approaching him on the street and ushering him into the house he told the boy ; ’ Welcome to the Devil 's Kingdom ’ and threatened to kill him if he did nt co-operate . |
| 30 | After tying it to the mizzen-mast , he did not investigate further . |