Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [adv prt] to [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 | 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 . |
| 5 | Clench your fists and bring them up to shoulder height , knuckles upward , elbows at your sides . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ Within four minutes he asked me out to dinner . |
| 8 | We chatted so much on that first date , and then Denise asked me out to dinner the next night . |
| 9 | ‘ Like I said , ’ he explained , ‘ after those last months in Sweden , the Ruskis made me up to Captain . |
| 10 | He kissed her wet lips , warmly , tenderly , bringing them back to life , and she was lost in her love for him and his for her and she really did n't care if they never talked again . |
| 11 | When they were n't running across it , cheered on by the headmaster , they were snipping bits off it and bringing them back to school to put in jars . |
| 12 | Indeed , she was conscious of good fortune in having at last got a council flat in Southwark , and in having good neighbours in the flat across the landing who saw that her children — a boy of nine and a girl of seven — ate their breakfast , and got them off to school . |
| 13 | By February 1916 pressure was mounting again , and resolutions calling for compulsory national service were flowing in ; the Executive refused to debate them , but passed them on to Law nevertheless . |
| 14 | Their parents are the ones who send them off to school and say , just do your best . |
| 15 | If there 's anything embedded in it like gravel or something and it does n't come away easily you must n't , it comes under the categories of what you call foreign bodies , which first aider is not at liberty to poke about , you must leave foreign bodies that do n't come away easily where they are and bandage them round and send them off to hospital or a doctor , but assuming it 's just a little clean graze , if I have n't got a tap to put it under , then I must use little bits of gauze to wash , put in a bowl of water and just wipe , yeah , and you always wipe obviously from the centre of a wound towards the outside , otherwise if you start to wipe across the whole thing you take dirt from one side of the wound across and drop it off in the middle somewhere , so you wipe from the centre out and throw that piece away and you take another piece and wipe from the centre out and so on until you feel happy , quite happy . |
| 16 | To air clothes when there is no airing cupboard is not only a chore , but an expensive one , while to fail to air all the unworn clothes is frequently to write them off to mildew . |
| 17 | I just want to say a big THANK YOU to the organisers and correspondents for keeping me up to date with the progress of THE WHITES this season . |
| 18 | Nonesuch reverts to its old function , keeping the University as a whole together , telling graduates what is going on in their old alma mater , and keeping them up to date with what their contemporaries are doing . |
| 19 | General practitioners have also found intensive courses in diabetes helpful in keeping them up to date and improving their clinical skills . |
| 20 | Yes , I believe that 's about getting pe , getting the lists of order , keeping them up to date erm . |
| 21 | The latest threat to children recently is not just wait till your dad gets home , but , my daughter told her four week old baby , if you 're not good I 'll put you on the fax and send you through to daddy . |
| 22 | keeping you up to date with what 's happening at home and around the world . |
| 23 | Has n't Mrs Abberley been keeping you up to date ? ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I did n't want a sick woman on my hands — to have to break my journey to cart you off to hospital . ’ |
| 25 | Oh you see if they want her back to testing they 've got ta pay for the resource to er for us to , to , to recruit somebody else in the meantime . |
| 26 | The woman told the court drove her instead to Clumber Park where he unclipped the sign on his taxi then assaulted her in the vehicle before driving her back to Workshop . |
| 27 | As Armstrong was riding homewards along the river bank at the end of the session , a group of English horsemen set off in pursuit , captured him , and bore him off to imprisonment in Carlisle castle . |
| 28 | At the New Contemporaries Exhibition in 1961 he and his wife bought Hockney 's Doll Boy for £40 and invited him round to tea — ‘ black hair , crew-cut , frightfully shy , I arrived late . |
| 29 | It was the thud of a horse 's hooves , very near , almost on her , which jerked her back to reality . |
| 30 | However , if Ross had been suffering from boredom , he managed to hide the fact very well when , only a few days later , he contacted her at the small London flat she was temporarily sharing with some friends from university , and invited her out to dinner . |