Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adv prt] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So like alright , bring them in to see , I said like that . |
| 2 | Bulls usually shake their heads erratically , lowering them vertically and twisting them sideways as they jerk them up to inflict the maximum injury . |
| 3 | Nearby , fishermen sort their nets before hanging them up to dry in the tall net ‘ shops ’ that are unique to Hastings ; and delicious fresh fish is always available from the fishmarket . |
| 4 | She kept phoning me up to tell me about Crowded House tickets and that she could n't get any . |
| 5 | But I 've accepted it as fate that people are building me up to knock me down . |
| 6 | When the war ended he sought me out to offer me choice of jabs ; I chose his Transport Wing in Germany , on loan to Sholto Douglas then the C-in-C Germany , to operate the air transport requirements for Germany in the early days after the end of the war , with aircraft baked in the UK . |
| 7 | He cuts the tenon shoulders one at a time , and then lines them up to make a final pass if necessary . |
| 8 | As had happened previously , the fines were paid anonymously but the magistrates had made it impossible for an outsider to defuse the situation on this occasion by also binding them over to keep the peace . |
| 9 | In addition to using casual workers to man up for " events " , we also found cases of organisations bringing them in to cope with peaks in what might be termed their " more continuous " activities . |
| 10 | David called Mick Ronson and Woody Woodmansey ( after making ‘ The Man Who Sold The World ’ , they had returned to Hull where they lived ) and invited them back to prepare for the next album , ‘ Hunky Dory ’ . |
| 11 | On a kill they show no special relish for liver , heart or kidneys by singling them out to eat first as delicacies . |
| 12 | It took several miles on the bus and a lot of questions still to be answered outside his front door before he invited me in to meet his mother . |
| 13 | Then she held the light still and drew me down to kneel beside her . |
| 14 | It did not occur to her to strip her bed down and change the sheets , or even to pull them back to see if there were any more where that one came from . |
| 15 | In waves they attacked , driving them back to stop the raising of the Stones which eagles had seen in other places . |
| 16 | ‘ Victory V. Punks sometimes grind them up to mix with Iranian . ’ |
| 17 | Jackie phoned me up to say , she phoned me up today for a chat , we were chatting away and she said erm , I heard Brenda , Brenda , so I knew it was girl , and er , I was saying she walked straight into the kitchen and I was sort of still on the phone , I was saying yeah , yeah , ok and erm , I said I 'm going out shopping and I 'm taking the dog with me , I said ok fair enough , she said well you 'll probably be gone when I get back , I said oh might be but she said but I do n't know and erm you know and I just put the phone down cos she wanted to see the pictures , my little girl asked put all the pictures up for him and er were looking at all the pictures and I 'd forgotten about Jack on the phone you know , so she s all of a sudden I got back she said oh your phone call she said who you talking too ? |
| 18 | Yeah , she phoned me up to ask me what she should do about Beryl . |
| 19 | In future , students will be able to take individual Higher National Units or build them up to gain group HNC or HND awards . |
| 20 | ‘ I have it on good authority that when Satan left , Christ did it but then changed them back to show he would not be tempted to eat . |
| 21 | I was shattered , but how could I defend myself by explaining that his hitherto unsuspected mistress had just rung me up to spill the beans ? ’ |
| 22 | He often picks out distinct things which he notices and writes them down to make us ‘ see ’ for ourselves . |
| 23 | Er , she rings me up to tell me to ring her back up |
| 24 | Send someone out to buy 20 pairs , ’ she said , striding nervously over a pile of scattered silk shoes in the ballroom of the Berkeley Hotel , Knightsbridge . |
| 25 | All they did was take photographs and , and send somebody round to try and stop us getting a home here ! |
| 26 | ‘ Market maker ’ is defined as including any person on a recognised exchange , whether an individual , partner , or company , who holds himself out to make a continuous succession of prices and is recognised as doing so by that exchange . |
| 27 | He gave a short , humourless laugh , and levered himself up to investigate the hamper . |
| 28 | He spent weeks nerving himself up to get a big whale picture , or maybe a dolphin . |
| 29 | Remember that Dr Neil is entertaining two of the doctors from the hospital and Mr Sands , the curate , to dinner tonight , and I shall need you back to help me — there will be a lot to do . ’ |
| 30 | And what I suggest we do is seeing Georgina 's here we send you through to see Georgina and she can , if she 's got time , we can briefly run through one or two types . |