Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Were they paid just for tying the boats up or for bringing them up the estuary as well ? |
| 2 | Most recent of course , is euthanasia it does n't draw the line at killing foxes I had this terrible vision in the early hours this morning , of Ron closing all our elderly persons ' homes , pushing all the old people out onto the street and the hunt with at its head hunting them down the countryside . |
| 3 | ‘ Talk about leading me up the garden path ! |
| 4 | Initially they both showed signs of running a mile and denying all knowledge , but by cunningly playing on their male pride , their desire to believe they were ‘ a better man ’ than their rival , she made each one mad with jealousy of the other , and finally had her pick of which she preferred , leading him up the aisle of the Methodist Chapel well before the bulge began to show . |
| 5 | He read her mind and drew the woman away , leading her down the room to a comfortable chair . |
| 6 | We was there all one Sunday with a trace-horse , pulling him up the common with his slaughter-cart : dead cows and that . |
| 7 | A Corporal had given me a coathanger and a broom and showed me the Foreign Legion 's way of unblocking a difficult lavatory bowl ; it involved unbending the coathanger , jamming it down the U-bend , and working it vigorously backwards and forwards . |
| 8 | She said I 'm not wearing them down the shop . |
| 9 | Sadly , most soccer sims just involve hoofing it up the pitch and loads of chasing aimlessly after the ball . |
| 10 | To add further complication , English speakers rarely give that lake the name used by Swiss , French , Germans and Italians , calling it instead the Lake of Luzern , a name which the Swiss only apply to one arm ( and almost the smallest at that ) of this many-armed lake . |
| 11 | If for instance erm Fred Bloggs at the end of the office is sick on Friday he turns off his P C at lunchtime and goes home and we do the software upgrade during the afternoon on Friday , then his P C wo n't get the upgrade to the software because we 're sending it down the network . |
| 12 | He then was responsible for salting the venison and packing it in barrels , and keeping it safe until required , or sending it wherever the king wanted it . |
| 13 | You can score points for the number of ceramic divisions you can move the butt over ( with extra for actually getting it down the hole and extra for doing it from the far end of the gutter from the hole ) , for the amount of destruction caused — apparently it 's very hard to get the little black cone at the burned end to disintegrate — and , over the course of the evening , the number of fag-ends so dispatched . |
| 14 | When you have typed in your work , move the cursor back to the very beginning and use it to guide your eyes by moving it down the screen at the left-hand margin as you check each line . |
| 15 | I decided that aiming my camera at the TV set was just as reasonable as aiming it out the window " ( ART news , Jan. 1986 ) . |
| 16 | If they come up with a question maybe just find out what 's being it erm not just reaction to a particular behaviour , but asking them how the feeling , you know maybe pointing to the bit in their body that 's actually feeling butterflies or whatever and trying to help them to express the fears and , more importantly , to make them concrete in terms of play , drawing , or acting it out . |
| 17 | He was asking them how the hunt had begun , and what had happened before we joined it . |
| 18 | If you are asking me where the remedy lies , my answer is that I have told you before and I shall go on telling you , and you know perfectly well what it is , though everybody thinks that it is too difficult and that therefore there must be a different remedy . |
| 19 | With the building trade in heavy recession , you may find builders approaching you once the council publishes brief details of your planning application ( if planning approval was necessary ) in the local press under the heading of Public Notices . |
| 20 | ‘ I do n't know how to thank you , ’ she said , giving him back the blanket . |
| 21 | He had a flowing white mane , and an expression of vaguely inscrutable self-possession , giving him somewhat the air of a Nordic Chinese Mandarin . |
| 22 | During my interview with the doctor a woman kept coming in and asking him where the party was . |
| 23 | I said oh just when it got dark really I said we 're having it down the house , I said erm drank more port I said every time we went to the loo they filled up my glass |
| 24 | I would agree with that , but I would just like to pick up three two of there have been one or two instances felt that they have necessarily make aware perhaps that something 's coming up in er difficult , but I just wanted to mention that er I do n't know what the procedures are actually , but I mean it d did n't seem to be one or two cases not saying it necessarily the department 's fault , I 'm er just making the point . |
| 25 | In a general election on April 20 the largest of the four main parties , the conservative pro-European Communities Independence Party ( IP ) , recovered the votes which had gone to a breakaway liberal Citizens ' Party ( CP ) in the April 1987 elections [ see pp. 35138-39 ] , giving it twice the representation of the next-largest party . |
| 26 | It is in five movements , and is graced by a major role for the solo oboe , giving it almost the character of a concerto . |
| 27 | But if the flag is at all close to the top of the bank , look once again at getting the ball down on the ground as quickly as possible and running it up the bank . |
| 28 | After long deliberation , they settled on a dark bottle-green , and the elderly assistant measured off the required length , pulling yards of cloth from the bale and running it down the length of the counter , measuring it against a fixed brass rule . |
| 29 | Nor have there been any informal jolly gatherings when the daily toil of pressing the flesh is over : Mr Kinnock wandering back among the press party , glass of whisky in hand , letting his ( metaphorical ) hair down a little , tipping us just the hint of a wink that this is all just a great game . |
| 30 | actually I tend to waste money cos I thought I 'd sit here and moan about taking them out the cost of it , but then I considered spending a hundred pound on a bed that he probably does n't even need , it 's daft really in n it ? |