Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [pers pn] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given that the member will be sent their membership card , it would seem a small step away to actually send them a letter addressed to them personally welcoming them to the union and advise them at the very least on the basic facilities and benefits , plus other important information , and signed by the Regional Secretary , if not by the General Secretary . |
| 2 | so the whole fucking tent shuffle 's round , he said , you remember you are part of the British army , if you disobey orders you will be brought up on charges , by the left quick march , and he 's fucking walking them to the sea |
| 3 | Rounding it off with a cocktail , we finish our meal and sit there doggedly describing it to the waiter , with the menus there to jog our memory . |
| 4 | Gums were cut open and the knife scythed through the man 's tongue , momentarily pinning it to the roof of his mouth before severing it . |
| 5 | But the white beast with her laughed , letting her run , then catching her , once … twice … finally throwing her to the ground ; rolling on top of her ; defiling her … |
| 6 | Fredegar records the death of Guntram , apparently in 592 , and Childebert 's succession to the kingdom of Burgundy , thus uniting it to the east Frankish realm , and establishing a political axis which was to last until 613 . |
| 7 | They 're for the child in school ; they 're for the housewife ; they 're for the businessman of the future , and an ordinary competent businessman has the capability and the possibility of actually learning how these devices work and using them , rather than just leaving it to the boffin , the scientist , the computer expert . |
| 8 | I mean , just leaving it to the baby , or making it dependent on the baby 's survival . |
| 9 | Or is he secretly selling us to the South ? |
| 10 | Over a year on from the hurricane blast of ‘ Purity ’ they still petrify , the blustery emotional gales of their live outings still taking me to the brink of a seizure . |
| 11 | Anne tried to get up , pulling on a coat , but Nina was still pinning her to the floor . |
| 12 | Duvall collided with him in the rush , nearly flinging him to the corridor floor , but Cardiff clung to the door knob and swung himself back again as Rohmer and Gilbert hurtled past him . |
| 13 | Nor will the wholesaler commit any offence in supplying the goods thus labelled to the retailer , nor the retailer in similarly supplying them to the consumer . |
| 14 | The bream pick up a bait by simply sucking it to the edge of their lips , and then move away from the main shoal to consume it . |
| 15 | They are quite capable of grabbing a solitary puffin in mid-air with their beaks or even beating it to the ground with blows of their wings . |
| 16 | Tunstall 's main thesis is that the evidence for concentration of ownership is very weak if one charts ownership across all media fields rather than simply restricting it to the press , radio and television . |
| 17 | Frantically Shannon tried to wriggle away , but he was too fast for her , his large body effectively pinning her to the mattress , and when she tried to slap him he caught her flailing wrists and held them fast on the pillow above her head . |
| 18 | An example saw the head of the household getting out of his bed at midnight on 13th May , filling his mouth with black beans and then spitting them to the floor , saying : |
| 19 | Shaking with terror , Isabel put a hand to the wall in an attempt to hold on to something solid , only to have it scoot across the slimy surface , almost throwing her to the ground . |
| 20 | Some , like David Young , who had abandoned the law for a career as a property developer , she put in charge of great statutory bodies , in his case eventually raising him to the Cabinet as Lord Young of Graffham . |
| 21 | He said : ‘ This appears at first glance to be quite a simple scheme , until we come to actually explaining it to the customer . |
| 22 | However , he refrained on this occasion from explicitly linking them to the situation around Afghanistan . |