Example sentences of "[verb] to [v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ' . |
| 2 | Wimpol remains totally committed to supporting you in the development of your career and , through suitable training , to ensuring that you play a full part in the company 's continued growth . |
| 3 | especially when it came to humping it into the van the A L O was nowhere to be found . |
| 4 | And diamonds were a man 's best friend when it came to making it with the opposite sex . |
| 5 | The State Department 's reply [ KP 125 ] was : " The Department assumes that the 28,000 Cossacks in question are Soviet Nationals and , if so , no objection is seen to delivering them to the Russian forces in accordance with the terms of the Yalta agreement . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'll definitely stick to wearing them in the future , ’ he told me in an exclusive interview . |
| 7 | PCBs are so difficult to destroy , that Rechem 's emission-monitoring systems are geared to detecting them on the grounds that if you destroy PCBs you destroy everything . |
| 8 | If the post is a pivotal one , consideration should even be given to advertising it in the local press and community newspapers . |
| 9 | Cornered , he resorted to patting her on the shoulder , while across his face flitted the craven smile of a man dealing with an unpredictable pet that yet might turn on him . |
| 10 | The good thing about having the machines on the vehicle are that we can give him that electric shock as opposed to taking him to the hospital to have that electric shock . |