Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [adv prt] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Gently , making fun of me a little bit , bringing me back to earth . |
| 3 | ‘ Perhaps you could help Cook to wash up , ’ she suggested , bringing me down to earth with a bang . |
| 4 | For the birds , otherwise what will they have to see them through till spring ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He would rule them out of necessity . |
| 8 | The receiver then decodes the numbers and turns them back into sound . |
| 9 | If it turns them off at school it will probably turn them off at university . |
| 10 | Clench your fists and bring them up to shoulder height , knuckles upward , elbows at your sides . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Mrs Brocklebank , had she been here , would no doubt have pointed them out with triumph . |
| 16 | And she was all right because when I got back here , she drove up and asked me over for coffee . |
| 17 | He asked me back for lunch after the Eucharist . |
| 18 | They asked me in for tea , and we all listened to the morning news on Radio Tonga , crackling over the miles from the aerials down in Tongatapu . |
| 19 | ‘ Within four minutes he asked me out to dinner . |
| 20 | We chatted so much on that first date , and then Denise asked me out to dinner the next night . |
| 21 | On the grounds of preventing young workers ' wages rising to a level which might price them out of work it scrapped the 1946 Fair Wages Resolution , which required compliance with minimum wage standards for firms trying to secure government and other contracts . |
| 22 | But I was promoting a Neil Diamond concert and one day he got me up on stage during this tour , and introduced me to the audience . |
| 23 | He often got me out of bed , late on an evening , to run an errand . |
| 24 | Well , the old chap come and got me out of school that morning to take this horse to Norwich . |
| 25 | Everything went wrong , but she got me out of trouble . |
| 26 | No I backed the first winner today and that got me out of trouble . |
| 27 | ‘ You got me out of gaol . |
| 28 | But since he 's been up here , he 's been eating me out of house and home and he does n't pay for it |
| 29 | Bind me up with granite , |
| 30 | But a fine run of only one defeat in the last eight matches has propelled them back into contention in a duel that looks set to go to the last game . |