Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] [adv prt] [prep] [noun] " 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 | When I had left him for Bath , he had said , sadly , seeing me off at Salamanca station : ‘ I should have come with you when your father died . |
| 5 | The big man has been in a clinic since breaking a leg against Crystal Palace last week and the only way he can join in the Reds rise is by cheering them on in front of his telly . |
| 6 | So their own minister held a service at the station , and the agent gave them a good dinner cheering them on in Gaelic , at which they wept , and they went on to settle at Moosomin , where they lived happily ever afterwards . |
| 7 | Since he regarded the crutches as extensions of his arms he had the habit of windmilling them about in moments of excitement . |
| 8 | Now I was in a position to move on ; but something had taken root deeper than the superficialities of travelling — a feeling that my story was not here , that something was drawing me back to Peru . |
| 9 | But since he 's been up here , he 's been eating me out of house and home and he does n't pay for it |
| 10 | Arrange these around the edge of the cake , sticking them down with dots of jam . |
| 11 | Hence philosophical analysis can and must proceed by erm philosophical thinking must proceed by analysis , by breaking down complex wholes into their simple parts and building them up by construction out of these simple parts , a conviction to which Russell remained true for the rest of his life . |
| 12 | Our prime purpose is to glorify God in reaching men and women for Christ , building them up in Christ , and sending them out for Christ . |
| 13 | But , George is off Monday and Tuesday but so if you were getting them , sitting here and bringing them up on Thursday John can come here and get his tea here and then take them home . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Bees were quietly going about their business , bumbling from flower to flower , the hot summer day bringing them out in force . |
| 17 | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ( LLNL ) in California , for instance , was once a naval air station , where in more innocent days the ground crews cleaned engines by hosing them down with carbon tetrachloride and trichloroethane ( TCE ) . |
| 18 | Peel carried on playing their records and booking them in for sessions , despite their high degree of success . |
| 19 | ’ I do n't recall you being so keen to leave while your lover-boy was knocking me around in Fif 's last night ’ . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | They say they 're keeping me in for observation . |
| 22 | still keeping me out of mischief . |
| 23 | Still keeping me out of mischief . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | General practitioners have also found intensive courses in diabetes helpful in keeping them up to date and improving their clinical skills . |
| 26 | Yes , I believe that 's about getting pe , getting the lists of order , keeping them up to date erm . |
| 27 | If the motion was a feint , then indeed we shall by our advancing be less in reach of keeping them out of Derbyshire . |
| 28 | My Department is providing £200,000 this financial year to motor projects dealing with young offenders , thereby keeping them out of custody . |
| 29 | ‘ He 's got a bee in his bonnet about keeping them out of remand homes and prison . |
| 30 | Almost imperceptibly the practice began of signing them on for voyages to Britain , Europe and North America so that the numbers of Chinamen and Lascars on ships based in these areas gradually increased and with it the Chinese , Indian and half-caste population of such ports as Cardiff and Liverpool . |