Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] [adv prt] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And will she be bringing them down here to stay do you think ? ’ |
| 2 | I saw now she was softening me up just to ask me a favour . |
| 3 | I 'm not taking you up there to vomit in the Land Rover . ’ |
| 4 | In the Sonnet just quoted , Britten breaks off the rhythm only near the end , with a few sustained chords , before taking it up again to come to a strong conclusion . |
| 5 | Tie in the new shoots on climbing roses , bending them over horizontally to encourage flowering side shoots . |
| 6 | You know it seemed to be that we had a working rule that had functioned reasonably well over the years and all of a sudden he was tearing up various paragraphs that did n't suit him , and altering bits you know and changing them round just to suit the company , and all to our disadvantage . |
| 7 | It makes me mad to think Big Business is slowly polishing me off so's to increase its profit margins on pesticide . ’ |