Example sentences of "[v-ing] them [adv prt] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He pulls the top part of the metal cover further up , and the lower half sinks at the same time ; he reaches in and gathers an armful of logs , bringing them over to the hearth . |
| 2 | You add all this other information and you constantly do that throughout the 24 hour day by saying that , ‘ it 's 11 o'clock , time for your coffee ’ , ‘ it 's twelve o'clock , it 's time for lunch ’ , and constantly giving your name and bringing them back to the present . ’ |
| 3 | His occupation , which was that of picking up men in a neighbouring public house , with which he had a working arrangement , during the evening hours , and bringing them back to the boat , was not particularly profitable . |
| 4 | It was always a project which was in parallel with Queen , because we always had a positive attitude to people doing stuff outside the band , getting new experiences and bringing them back into the band . |
| 5 | The swing of the hurricane was bringing them back into the eye of the storm . |
| 6 | Weekend reports suggest that the long-term unemployed — those out of work longer than 12 months — will benefit from a £300 million scheme aimed at bringing them back into the workforce . |
| 7 | Still , Melissa was pleasant enough and said Hello and asked if I minded driving them back to the village . |
| 8 | An investigation by the Japanese Fisheries Agency concluded in an announcement by the Foreign Ministry that the dolphins had committed a " mass suicide " from which local fisherman had been trying to save them by driving them back into the sea . |
| 9 | Allow the applied force gradually to separate your knees , driving them down to the mat . |
| 10 | Planting consists merely of tossing them on to the surface of the water . |
| 11 | Tonight we visit a village which is so proud of it 's gardens , it 's opening them up for the public to enjoy . |
| 12 | Pushing them out of the way , she hastened to the bed . |
| 13 | If these two signals differ significantly in level , you will need to balance them up at the mixer before passing them on to the camcorder . |
| 14 | The Institute is concerned , however , that the duty may lead to over-reporting by auditors or to unnecessary formality in preparation of reports , which could cause delay in passing them on to the Bank . |
| 15 | Then the ground shook again ; this time it was Steve , ordering them back to the kitchen . |
| 16 | The hunt was called off : the whippers-in and the huntsmen despatched , Benjamin ordering them back to the manor and telling them to bring down two stretchers , wine and bandages . |
| 17 | The last recommendation was seized upon by critics who calculate that storing the most frequently-used books high up in the four towers will create a considerable time delay in transporting them down to the reading areas . |
| 18 | Quite a few were very upset , they 'd only twelve months to go — it was just like turning them out on the street . |
| 19 | On return to the farm in the late afternoon there was likely to be a further round of gossip and conversation while grooming the horses and bedding them down for the night . |
| 20 | At the top end , very high-fliers are still in demand , to the extent that recruiters sometimes have difficulty pulling them down from the stratosphere to fill plum vacancies . |
| 21 | You could n't keep bulls for long or the strain in your herd would have been weakened by in-breeding , so there was a regular turnover , and quite often farms would loan out their bulls around the Dales before selling them out of the area . |
| 22 | For example , if the price of BP October calls with an exercise price of 220p were only 10p then investors could buy the calls and exercise by buying the shares at 220p making a total purchase price of 230p and selling them back to the market for 237p thus making a profit of 7p per share . |
| 23 | This offer wo n't be affected by ZZAP ! 's impending refit , but we 're not sending them out until the end of November — every time we offer solutions , requests pour in the day after the mag hits the shelf . |
| 24 | In the wild , a fish can get around this problem by absorbing much bigger molecules and then breaking them down in the gut wall or bloodstream . |
| 25 | Their working lives ( up to about fifteen hours ) can be maximised if you handle them with care , so avoid subjecting them to mechanical shocks when in use ; switch off and allow them to cool before moving them around on the set . |
| 26 | Already it had made great play of how it had saved certain famous churches from its own bulldozers by moving them out of the path of destruction . |
| 27 | I cut 2½ × 2in rectangular holes in the end pieces for the air intake , framing them up with the waste from ripping the 1x3in . |
| 28 | I also pay tribute to the professionalism of the emergency services , who naturally faced difficulties in getting to the injured and in getting them out of the tunnel for treatment . |
| 29 | And how very understated and very British , with every man of its crew trying not to show how pleased he was or how embarrassed , and quietly thanking the good Lord for getting them out of the mess in the Bay , and if He would n't mind , could some other perishing submarine have the next thirty-eight ? |
| 30 | The car allowance , a key item in reporters ' lives and in getting them out of the office — was fixed at Option B — 15p a mile . |