Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] [noun] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Thank you for bringing my feet down to the ground . |
| 2 | Although I can recall so clearly seeing my father off to the war , and even more clearly the Zeppelin , the mid-twenties are not so clear . |
| 3 | ‘ What do you mean by sneaking my cousin off to the mainland when she 's supposed to be at my place , studying ? |
| 4 | Now Van Cheele was driving his guest back to the station . |
| 5 | Bringing her mind back to the keys she suggested having a photograph taken so that there would be a record of them if it was ever needed . |
| 6 | The corrugations of the track were half-filled with grit so that the wheel lost momentum in each hollow and at times I thought of myself as an engine-driver , pushing my train back to the station , always careful not to trip over the sleepers . |
| 7 | In Perth souvenir shops , Gumpets are elbowing their way on to the shelves alongside the stock-in-trade plywood boomer angs , mallee-root ornamental clocks and kangaroo-skin sporrans . |
| 8 | In his study of Amer In his study of m the U S he found that seventy five percent of the s people who spoke Na-dene , could n't give a reason er a proper reason for passing their language on to the er children . |
| 9 | As she flopped down in a corner seat , Constance looked at the man pushing her case on to the rack opposite . |
| 10 | They say they go out of their way to avoid trouble , having left a bar in Haymarket earlier in the evening because there was a group that seemed intent on a fight , swearing and pushing their way through to the bar . |
| 11 | Pushing his way back to the keep 's main entrance , Ramsay found Douglas emerging . |
| 12 | No , no we 've got another office at Knebworth which is a village approximately six miles north of here , what I will also be doing automatically is passing your details through to the office so that as you 're looking for character property and village property they 'll be particularly appropriate okay , but also to make life easier we actually carry their details here so anything that they 've got available I 'll be able to give to you now |
| 13 | Cranston and Athelstan stabled their horses in a dingy tavern and walked back , forcing their way through to the great prison door . |
| 14 | ‘ Stupendous — spectacular , ’ she offered distractedly , forcing her mind back to the mind-fazing wonders of the gorge running between mountains of pure marble and through thirty-eight tunnels , and even spanned at one point by a bridge of marble . |
| 15 | She blinked , pulling her mind back to the present . |
| 16 | The scheme will work with clubs either selling their tickets back to the WRU at a fixed rate or by becoming involved in profit-sharing . |
| 17 | I ran upstairs to see what I could , and there he was , torch and all , running down the garden and then dodging his way up to the cliff path , and fast , as if he knew exactly where he was going . |
| 18 | Burn had been ploughing that May afternoon and was leading his horses back to the field after his tea . |
| 19 | He stretched , turning his face up to the sun . |
| 20 | He glanced quickly across to check on Delaney and Nell , and was turning his attention back to the others , when he frowned . |
| 21 | ‘ God give me strength , ’ he yelled , instantly turning his attention back to the younger man who stood before him , and whose woebegone expression would have been comical were it not so pitiful . |
| 22 | Turning his attention back to the sea of faces crowding the corridor on either side of him , he addressed them firmly , injecting his voice with a confidence he did n't feel in order to reassure them . |
| 23 | ‘ I am always sending my producers off to the BBC music library , telling them to seek a breadth of listening : let's be adventurous , dangerous and interesting . ’ |
| 24 | A girl with a superheroine costume was holding her face up to the mirror , tracing a cobweb pattern on her pale cheeks . |
| 25 | The woods beyond the rectory garden consisted mainly of beech trees , very tall , as though sending their branches up to the light . |
| 26 | She is a member of the Institute of Marketing and well versed at getting her ideas over to the public . |
| 27 | AIS sees Skymaster as an important way of getting its information over to the public in an efficient , quickly updated fashion that is easily accessed . |
| 28 | In other words , Britain has been ruled by a government of what is generally regarded as the normal British kind — a single-party government with a majority in the House of Commons , capable of getting its measures on to the statute book without open or tacit agreements with any other party — for only 54 of the 84 years of this century . |
| 29 | William left him holding his glass up to the light from the kitchen window and frowning slightly . |
| 30 | He was grinning from ear to ear and pointing his finger up to the flies . |