Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harvest the seeds in July-August by cutting the seedheads just before the first seeds start to fall , and hanging them over a tray in a dry airy place . |
| 2 | When Red and I were kids we had races jumping on ponies in the fields and galloping them round a tree and back without a bridle . |
| 3 | knocking them back a bit |
| 4 | ’ I hear that George has been living it up a bit lately ? ’ |
| 5 | Lastly , put some dry leaves and grasses into the box , filling it about a quarter full . |
| 6 | ‘ Like that , ’ said Lee pushing it up a bit . |
| 7 | i i perhaps in terms of if you think of it in terms of like the employer of the day , Well we 've paid an external trainer to come along , it 's actually costing us quite a lot of money . |
| 8 | You know , and you , you then have that sheet , and how much is my time worth , and how much is his time worth , or her time worth , and you can say , you know , these interruptions are actually costing us quite a lot of month . |
| 9 | I often notice him looking at me and paying me rather a lot of compliments . |
| 10 | The thought of inserting the diaphragm was worrying me quite a bit . |
| 11 | Creeping plants , such as Java Moss , can be trained into shapes , perhaps by growing them up a trellis , or over suitable-arranged rockwork . |
| 12 | The charges allege that on various occasions over the 14 months to August last year at the home , she assaulted one woman by throwing her from her bed on to a chair then a commode , putting her in a bath against her will and pulling her along a corridor , and of assaulting the second woman in a similar manner by throwing her from her bed on to a wheelchair and then a commode , dragging her across a room and tying her to a chair . |
| 13 | Rub sugar lumps on to the peel of the lemons , holding them over a bowl , until each lump starts crumbling , then start on another . |
| 14 | The isolation is getting me down a bit — I have had to seek to be pretty resilient spiritually with George in , and so the extra resources are pretty deplete because of that . |
| 15 | Moving her just a fraction away , his eyes once more holding hers captive , he added , ‘ So is n't it fortunate that I know you for the cheat you are ? ’ |
| 16 | Now spreading it over a year means that the project administration jumps dramatically , and there 's about four , five thousand pounds ' worth in there . |
| 17 | The fun comes from the fact that you have previously sooted the underside of their plate by holding it over a candle . |
| 18 | It 's getting it 's getting it up a bit is n't it ? |
| 19 | You know when Beecham was conducting it once a trumpeter came in early in one of the big silences : the kind of catastrophe you can do nothing about . |
| 20 | As opposed to giving them possibly a ball bearing . |
| 21 | giving it just a couple more minutes and if he does n't come |
| 22 | I thought about running it back a while . |
| 23 | I 'll have to wallpaper your bathroom , then paint it , I then have to touch up the door cos it 's that kind of paint and I had it like , on the top of the loo , I was doing it up a bit , and the next thing I saw was Felix coming onto the back of the wind ah |
| 24 | ‘ If by any chance the police pull us in on suspicion they 've got ter 'ave an identification parade , an' if the old watchman recognises any of us we 're done for , unless 'e 's too frightened ter pick us out , an' 'e will be if 'e knows we 're capable o' smackin' 'im around a bit . |
| 25 | ‘ It came to the stage when I was married to Michael but seeing him once a week , ’ said Gabrielle . |
| 26 | Everyone benefited from knowing them so a spot of poaching was not held against them . |
| 27 | He was nearly always right , too , so very seldom did anyone get the chance of really taking him down a peg or two . |
| 28 | The route was taking her over a highway that twisted and turned across central North Island mountain ranges where the air was fresh and clear . |
| 29 | Schemes that work in well-ordered German or American suburbs , whose honest burghers would never dream of squeezing their junk into a neighbour 's bin or chucking it over a fence at dead of night , may be less successful in city centres . |
| 30 | Naturally , Reynard started there , drew the first blank , which did n't disconcert him ( he would have been disappointed by an easy discovery anyway ) and composed himself to delve deeper , perhaps taking it backwards a month at a time , beginning with Malamute 's employment with Club Eleusis . |