Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [v-ing] [pron] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hated myself for wounding him , and for perhaps driving him to a life of wickedness , or even death . |
| 2 | It had fallen to him to inherit not a heaven-born dynasty in an earthly paradise , but the staggering debt of correctly bringing it to an end . |
| 3 | Although it is a means of asserting authority , coming as it does at the start of the shift , parade is very relaxed and , from the point of view of the ordinary constables , serves as a way of casually reorientating themselves to the demands of work . |
| 4 | How could the French people be expected to remember us when we ourselves have devoted fifteen years to the task of being forgotten , when , for fifteen years , the mainspring of the actions of the entire family has been the fear of compromising themselves , and they have avoided every chance of coming forward , the only way of publicly recalling themselves to the people 's memory ? |
| 5 | Nor will the wholesaler commit any offence in supplying the goods thus labelled to the retailer , nor the retailer in similarly supplying them to the consumer . |
| 6 | However , he refrained on this occasion from explicitly linking them to the situation around Afghanistan . |
| 7 | Under the terms of the 1939 Law of the Administration of the State , Franco could have promulgated the Law of Succession without previously presenting it to the Cortes . |
| 8 | He said : ‘ This appears at first glance to be quite a simple scheme , until we come to actually explaining it to the customer . |
| 9 | using a level , the drip channel is installed at the bottom of the run by simply nailing it to the battens |
| 10 | The bream pick up a bait by simply sucking it to the edge of their lips , and then move away from the main shoal to consume it . |
| 11 | ‘ We have to help ourselves by never stretching ourselves to the limit when taking out a mortgage or borrowing money . ‘ |