Example sentences of "to [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is the self-denial of the musician who devotes all her time and energy to mastering her musical instrument . |
| 2 | When we identify something we pin it down and are halfway to mastering it . |
| 3 | Davide was still committed to preferring it to the alternatives , the vendettas , the feuds , the bloody score -these ways were for barbarians , for people like Sicilians , or Neapolitans , people whose own blood was all mixed up with Spaniards ' . |
| 4 | That set me watching the next time I was on a flight and to realising what a useful transaction it was . |
| 5 | Young people look forward to co-operation , and aspire to building something good for the future . |
| 6 | What is definitely not the right way to build up a stock of components is to buy sets of components for projects , and to never quite get around to building them . |
| 7 | But since the replicase is just a protein molecule like any other , the versatile protein-building machines of the bacterial cell can easily turn to building them , just as the machine tools in a car factory can quickly be turned over in time of war to making munitions : all they need is to be fed the right blueprints . |
| 8 | I 'd like to take up your point about is it that erm after revolution and so on and break downs , governments er countries , say like Russian , China er some of these eastern European countries , they 're motivation goes to building their country up to resist occupation . |
| 9 | A free seminar programme entitled A step by step guide to building your own home will also run hourly throughout the show . |
| 10 | There are two choices when it comes to building your own fitted wardrobes . |
| 11 | I think that people do n't want to see any more constitutional changes , but there are many more changes in the culture , in the way the Party operates at local , regional , and national level , which we will be addressing , but what we 're not going to have is more constitutional changes , because people feel that we 've made changes , we have moved the Party forward , we 're clear the direction we 're going in , and now the Party at all levels wants to address itself not only to building our membership , but also to showing how the policies we 've got meet the changed world outside . |
| 12 | The AC contact was n't Shelby 's first ; he 'd been hawking his sports car plans around since the late '50s and among the people he 'd contacted with a view to building his hybrid had been his good friend Donald Healey . |
| 13 | Bald planned to follow it with other county surveys of similar quality , but this ambition was frustrated when the Ordnance Survey was directed to produced its own map of Ireland in 1824 , and henceforth he devoted his energies to civil engineering , a profession for which he further equipped himself by a period of renewed study and foreign travel . |
| 14 | He has already taken the trouble to obtain the opinions of a carefully selected group of North Britons ; what then can be his objection to ascertaining what the ordinary Scot in the street thinks ? |
| 15 | Most of my neighbours love children , and they are kind to animals , though they are not averse to eating their pet pigeons sometimes and wild pheasants . |
| 16 | It is , indeed , the dedication to eating which provides the lasting memory of this night , rather than the lacklustre game . |
| 17 | But then she fell to eating her haynet as usual , so he decided she had a touch of indigestion , and it had passed . |
| 18 | The final item ‘ Generations ’ was aptly named as those taking part ranged from Jane Middleton , aged 8 , up the scale to 90–years old Mrs. Constance Marsh , who reckons Medau helps a lot but mainly attributes her longevity to eating plenty of oranges . |
| 19 | I do n't feel up to eating anything . ’ |
| 20 | Mr Cook may prefer silence to eating his words . |
| 21 | Many people who have trouble with diets are used to eating lots of snacks during the day . |
| 22 | There is no evidence that all jurists early practised toleration of defective trusts , for we have seen that up to the end of the first century at least there was opposition to allowing them validity . |
| 23 | Many of the training difficulties encountered with dogs in later life can be traced back to allowing them to exert a subtle dominance over you at any early stage , while they are puppies . |
| 24 | You can either react equally aggressively and verbally back in Spanish , or French , which in fact is what is happening , but that is not helpful , or as one member of staff said to me today , ‘ I came very close to clobbering him today ’ . |
| 25 | In addition to naming his Cabinet , Clinton also revealed his choice for key executive branch offices . |
| 26 | Richard Ayling , former Olympic rower , Assistant National and ARA-approved coach , is now a professional rowing consultant , providing a wide range of coaching services , from individual sculling tuition ( £15 per hour ) to organizing your regatta . |
| 27 | " He asked me to met him several times a year , I tried to advise him , to tell him how I saw things in the world . " |
| 28 | Grandad had never been hooked , but on this occasion , he grabbed a Blue Zulu , went off like a rocket and soon broke the cast ; that was about ten years ago : the first and last time anyone came near to catching him . |
| 29 | The South African Grand Prix at Kyalami was also won by Lauda but Hunt came close to catching him at the end , losing by just over a second . |
| 30 | The 70 year old was a popular man in the area and police have been flooded with people offering information , but they 're no nearer to catching his killer . |