Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adv prt] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've seen my mam take sheets off a bed and tear them up in squares . |
| 2 | Just my personal assistant bringing me up to date on some business matters , ’ he added dismissively as he walked over to the other side of the bed , picking up his slim gold watch from a small table . |
| 3 | Gently , making fun of me a little bit , bringing me back to earth . |
| 4 | ‘ Perhaps you could help Cook to wash up , ’ she suggested , bringing me down to earth with a bang . |
| 5 | For the birds , otherwise what will they have to see them through till spring ? |
| 6 | Fellowship Afloat have the use of Dawn , a fully-rigged barge , until the end of April but need another vessel to see them through until September . |
| 7 | Switch on and move the appropriate levers on the banks of controllers , and the children come running out of the house , little pink-cheeked creatures half an inch high , who turn to wave at Felicity as she comes out on the terrace to see them off to school . |
| 8 | Thirdly , there is the possibility that abnormalities judged by us to be psychotic in afunctional sense were actually due to organic brain diseases unrecognised at the time ; for reasons discussed previously this would rule them out of court for our purposes . |
| 9 | He would rule them out of necessity . |
| 10 | But people in this group , often unemployed or single parents on low incomes , had not even been trying to get most forms of credit because of their own feeling that their personal circumstances would rule them out as applicants . |
| 11 | The receiver then decodes the numbers and turns them back into sound . |
| 12 | If it turns them off at school it will probably turn them off at university . |
| 13 | Clench your fists and bring them up to shoulder height , knuckles upward , elbows at your sides . |
| 14 | She does n't avoid the painful issues that divide us — but , as few writers can , she makes us laugh at them and bring them down to size . |
| 15 | The same undertaker as had handled the disposal of Jacob 's body would collect the coffins and bring them back to Suffolk . |
| 16 | The tiny parrot was a thrilling novelty , and before long every visitor to the Australian colonies was attempting to catch them and bring them back as souvenirs . |
| 17 | A very simple way of collecting examples of people talking is to sit them down in front of the camera and get them to talk to it . |
| 18 | When I had left him for Bath , he had said , sadly , seeing me off at Salamanca station : ‘ I should have come with you when your father died . |
| 19 | They drag them back from Italy at various times . |
| 20 | ‘ Are you trying to kill me off by degrees ? ’ |
| 21 | You do n't want me back in Scotland , do you ? |
| 22 | The big man has been in a clinic since breaking a leg against Crystal Palace last week and the only way he can join in the Reds rise is by cheering them on in front of his telly . |
| 23 | So their own minister held a service at the station , and the agent gave them a good dinner cheering them on in Gaelic , at which they wept , and they went on to settle at Moosomin , where they lived happily ever afterwards . |
| 24 | He laid them out on Stephen 's desk and did his best to smooth them flat . |
| 25 | Since he regarded the crutches as extensions of his arms he had the habit of windmilling them about in moments of excitement . |
| 26 | But , I mean , they sell them round at Dash Hill for erm , they sell them for two hundred and fifty do n't , the shops |
| 27 | She sits me down in Jamie 's heap of a living room while she clatters in the kitchenette . |
| 28 | Ferryman led them over to Jackie 's cot . |
| 29 | I was n't prepared to put things under my arm and hawk them around in Bond Street so there was a long gap . |
| 30 | Mrs Brocklebank , had she been here , would no doubt have pointed them out with triumph . |