Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [pers pn] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then , so gently that she was hardly aware of what was happening — as if she was merely swaying with the tide — he gradually pulled her towards the shore , slowly drawing her up against the bare , damp skin of his broad chest . |
| 2 | I tried to keep my feelings under control and remember that all these people were mostly helping us out of the goodness of their hearts , but sometimes it was difficult . |
| 3 | My Department is providing £200,000 this financial year to motor projects dealing with young offenders , thereby keeping them out of custody . |
| 4 | So bringing you back to after the war , er how did the business continue er then or for , from that time forward ? |
| 5 | Ross had taken her home , gently helping her out of the taxi and escorting her to the front door . |
| 6 | He had the door open and his back to her when , her brother 's hat obviously catching his eye , he halted , stretched out a hand to it , then turned to where Leith , antagonistically-expressioned , stood , obviously wanting him out of her flat . |
| 7 | ‘ She was only paying me back for what I did for her , and she should have gone on paying me back . ’ |
| 8 | I I th would prefer to look at the vacant dwellings as a single entity rather than necessarily splitting them down between the the the various types . |
| 9 | ‘ Two yards from the special , Magee raised his two arms together holding them out in front of him in the combat position , and to his horror PC Kelly saw a handgun protruding from Magee 's clenched fists . |
| 10 | My parents were the type of parents who always seemed faintly disappointed by whatever it was you did , as if you were constantly letting them down in small ways . |
| 11 | I was merely taking her down to London for a day . |
| 12 | In the absence of any other guidelines it is best to start the design of the artwork by defining the above factors , perhaps listing them out for reference . |
| 13 | Gurney , who scored 205 goals in his fourteen years with Sunderland , worked out a way of drawing the centre-half with him while collecting the ball from the wing then suddenly laying it back to the centre for another forward . |
| 14 | His brows rose , but he said nothing , merely appraising her out of a pair of shrewd eyes . |
| 15 | The work of the symbolic , of the American television institution , in articulating this technical and imaginary possibility is to break it , interrupt , withdraw by separating the text into saleable parts , breaking up the promise of coherence and wholeness into short sessions , as it were , constantly jerking us out of the dream of coherent signifieds into the world of the endless play of signifiers . |
| 16 | But this er w this this feeling of erm not being respected , w do you think in that was in any sense a an important motivation for just sticking it out amongst the older men ? |
| 17 | And every time I cough I think that 's just bringing it back on again . |
| 18 | I 'm just bringing you up to date really , they 've actually er resisted quite violently towards the reacted quite violently towards the erm price increase and er we 've erm just sent them back , Peter 's just writing a letter so there 'll be a letter coming in |
| 19 | He 's just bringing you down like dirt . |
| 20 | Just checking it over for test . |
| 21 | I was just checking it over before test . |
| 22 | He was beginning to wonder if they were n't already softening him up for some kind of a change . |
| 23 | And then do n't , you no need take her home you see , because it 's only just picking her up on a Tuesday . |
| 24 | it was a it was full pass inside to two fullbacks er , for the Southampton player that was running on this fullback shaded it away you know , guiding him out of it , he 's running to the e sa Smeichel came out to the edge of the area but he was like right on the edge as the player was coming to him , so he just let it roll a little bit further , he stopped it with his foot , the guy came and tackled him off got it instead of just picking it up with his hand , I mean he was actually in the area but like he was right on the edge and he took a step back |
| 25 | She must be re-living her sad memories with such concentration that she was somehow passing them on to him . |
| 26 | Just testing it over for test . |
| 27 | this is just sweating it out in your bed , the simplest remedy of all . |
| 28 | I 'm just tellin' y' about round our way . |
| 29 | I 'm not proposing that to you at the moment Chairman , I 'm just pointing it out to members so that there 's no confusion on it . |
| 30 | I 'm fucking kicking you out in a minute . |