Example sentences of "bringing [pers pn] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " 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 | Meanwhile , the Schopenhauerian aspects of his theory contradicted his own earlier doctrines without in fact bringing them properly into line with Schopenhauer 's aesthetic itself . |
| 5 | Ideas exist in our own minds and we need to master the skilled techniques for bringing them forward for evaluation and application to our problems . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In the Cox Report we therefore set out our rationale for explicit knowledge about language in a separate section , and printed as part of it the statements of attainment about knowledge about language from the three profile components , bringing them together in order to show their coherence . |
| 9 | However , I understand that the finishing line has been re-aligned and that being the case bookmakers on the rails next to the course will be moved nearer to the winning post , bringing them more into contact with punters . |
| 10 | As the season progressed I 'd become more aware of the gradual decline in the sharpness of my axes and crampons , bringing them more in line with mixed rather than ice climbing gear . |
| 11 | Bees were quietly going about their business , bumbling from flower to flower , the hot summer day bringing them out in force . |
| 12 | To the charge that Victorians sentimentalised the deaths of their children has been added the allegation that they may have inflicted psychological damage by bringing them prematurely into contact with death . |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | Very kind of her , bringing you up by hand . |
| 15 | He 's just bringing you down like dirt . |
| 16 | She snuggled down and began to drift to sleep , memories of Alain holding her here as she wept on that first day , memories of him bringing her up to bed after he had kissed her in the kitchen , fluttering like moths in the light , easing her into sleep . |
| 17 | Why ca n't you just say : " There 's a bloke I 've met and I 'm bringing him home for tea on Tuesday . " |
| 18 | This leads naturally to the splendid definitions of love in chapter ten as Rolle anticipates the disciple bringing him down to earth with a question : " You talk a great deal about love but what is it ? |
| 19 | We started the gradual process of bringing him back into work , hoping that he had been through all his disasters in one go : first he cut himself and had to be stitched , and then he got kicked on the hock . |
| 20 | Recently it seems to have been bringing him out in anxiety attacks once again . |
| 21 | In bringing it up to date and making it profitable , he had to tread warily , for although it was made up of land and property , it was essentially about people . |
| 22 | If making it more fun is bringing it up to date then I 'm all in favour |
| 23 | We knew that they were testing them , and checking it over and bringing it up to standard , but we did n't know anything about it other than that ! |
| 24 | The Menlo Park , California company also has a new release of its native C++ compiler , bringing it up to Version 3.0 compatibility , and will be announcing the availability dates for Solaris 2 . |
| 25 | It also has a new release of its native C++ compiler , bringing it up to Version 3.0 compatibility , and will be announcing the availability dates for Solaris 2. x products . |
| 26 | From 6 January 1993 , the ‘ official rate of interest ’ has been reduced to 8.25% from 9% , bringing it more into line with mortgage rates . |
| 27 | Flash floods in October tore away supporting concrete panels from the base of the Mojkovac dam , bringing it close to collapse . |
| 28 | Flash floods in October 1992 had torn away supporting concrete panels from the base of the dam , bringing it close to collapse and threatening the release of 3.5 million tonnes of water containing harmful levels of heavy metals from nearby mines [ see ED 65/66 ] . |
| 29 | This , however , is not the thinking — and it may be presumptuous — that moved BBC2 to hit us between the frontal lobes with Jonathan Miller 's states of mind ( 20 February ) , a series that will march on for 15 weeks in the cause of bringing us up to date with what is happening in psychology . |