Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of seeing them individually in the privacy of his study , he arranged regular ‘ Sharing Jesus ’ evenings to which the baptism families and wedding couples were invited . |
| 2 | Anyone seeing them together on the common outside Oswaldston would have taken them for husband and wife , though Hilary was by nearly three years the younger . |
| 3 | I 've got several people helping me all over the area , and I watch three or four games on a Sunday myself . ’ |
| 4 | What are we doing Wednesday ? yes , we 'll have one there , and we 'll have one there , I 'm sticking them all over the place , but you 'll see what I mean . |
| 5 | Nigel invited them all in for food and drink and listened spellbound to feats of derring-do , asking endless questions and reminding me slightly of the painting The Boyhood of Raleigh . |
| 6 | Their performances have , over the years , given ordinary people a much-needed reason to feel pride in their native city , while binding them together in the sharing of two terrible tragedies . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The swing of the hurricane was bringing them back into the eye of the storm . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | This latter period saw the creation of a labour code ( 1943 ) limiting the functioning of unions to a local and plant level and bringing them tightly under the control of the Ministry of Labour . |
| 14 | A plantation of 30,000 artificial palms would fundamentally shift cloud patterns near coastal deserts , drawing them overland from the sea . |
| 15 | They pulled me up off the floor with my hands up behind my back and they were walking me out of the chemist with my arms up and my head pushed down and one of them was kicking me in the back of my legs to get me over to the car . |
| 16 | ‘ As he was knocking me all around the ring , ’ said Holyfield , ‘ I thought he 'll miss soon and maybe I 'll get the chance to knock him out . ’ |
| 17 | Still , Melissa was pleasant enough and said Hello and asked if I minded driving them back to the village . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Allow the applied force gradually to separate your knees , driving them down to the mat . |
| 20 | They are ongoing in that they are still at an early stage and in that the process of applying them right across the whole of the NHS will take several years-probably up to the end of the century . |
| 21 | Planting consists merely of tossing them on to the surface of the water . |
| 22 | Tonight we visit a village which is so proud of it 's gardens , it 's opening them up for the public to enjoy . |
| 23 | Also , when you die you get to choose whereabouts on the screen to restart , avoiding the trap of landing you right in the middle of what killed you in the first place . |
| 24 | Jason Page , 17 , had already punched and kicked Daisy Castle before stabbing her twice in the chest , a St Albans Crown Court jury was told . |
| 25 | She had wanted to get back to her hotel and away from him but , first , he had insisted on driving her out into the wilderness , and now he had marooned them . |
| 26 | Sharp whey-like sweat came off hum as she smelt his closeness ; he was walking her backwards into the recess of the arched double doors of a neighbour 's carriage entrance , sticking to her awkwardly , like children playing at dancing , standing on each other 's feet , and when he had her against the door , he took his hand from the underside of her breast , and fingering her nipple , made it rise , then tweaked it till it stood up higher ; twinges darted from her breast to her groin , and Rosa closed her eyes with a little gasp . |
| 27 | For a second his eyes met hers and then he came to her quickly , his body covering her own , pressing her down into the softness of the bed , his skin against hers an almost unbearable pleasure . |
| 28 | He would have joined Melissa on the great bed , pressing her down against the coverlet and ravishing her long white neck with passionate kisses . |
| 29 | ‘ Oh , do n't be boring , Robyn ! ’ he mumbled , and then , before she could get up , do anything , he was pushing all his weight against her , pressing her back against the bed , half lying across her , holding her wrists so that she had no way of fighting him off . |
| 30 | " No , it 's his son , " said Walter , shepherding her out into the street . |