Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] [pron] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , as with the tutworker , from their gross income were deducted a number of items — the blacksmith 's cost of sharpening drills and picks ; a charge for raising or drawing the stuff up the shaft and tramming or waggoning it out to the dressing floors , and there , the cost of breaking up lumps into pieces about fist size . |
| 2 | The author has felt that these latter efforts have not in some way brought out the real flavour of the game in the sense that the play does not take place on a real pitch , surrounded by players who get in the way of run-making and occasionally do their stuff by bowling the batsman out or sending him back to the pavilion by some other means . |
| 3 | The alternatives would seem to be handing General Noriega to the US forces to face trial on drug-trafficking charges , which the Vatican has said it will not do , or giving him up to the new Panamanian Government , which has already declared it ‘ has enough on him to put Noriega away for life ’ . |
| 4 | Naturally we will exercise discretion , but we wish to make the sharing of information normal , rather than leaving it up to the client to make the case for access . |
| 5 | You add all this other information and you constantly do that throughout the 24 hour day by saying that , ‘ it 's 11 o'clock , time for your coffee ’ , ‘ it 's twelve o'clock , it 's time for lunch ’ , and constantly giving your name and bringing them back to the present . ’ |
| 6 | His occupation , which was that of picking up men in a neighbouring public house , with which he had a working arrangement , during the evening hours , and bringing them back to the boat , was not particularly profitable . |
| 7 | He had moved in and taken the stuffiness out of the business , slaughtering its ‘ professional ’ pretensions , and bringing it on to the High Street long before the present new wave of trendy estate agents . |
| 8 | Extracting this heat involves pumping water down an injection borehole drilled from the surface , circulating it through pre-existing fractures , or joints , in the rock , which have been enlarged using high-pressure liquid , and bringing it back to the surface via a second borehole . |
| 9 | It 's very , it 's deceptive if you 're not working out what you 're doing and relating it back to the graph , and relating it back to physics , to an experiment you 're doing , someone 's checking the clock every second to see how much further it 's gone . |
| 10 | This is a block that sweeps in a downward arc across the lower part of the body , connecting with the incoming kick near the ankle and knocking it out to the side . |
| 11 | They simplified the house , knocking down walls , adding bathrooms , and opening it up to the cool summer breezes from the sea . |
| 12 | As he tried , several times , to restart his car before giving up and pushing it on to the verge to await rescue , traffic on the M8 from Glasgow quickly built up until there was a three-mile tailback . |
| 13 | Pertamina head office was especially active during the Flores emergency , acting mainly as central co-ordinator for gifts of money and clothing , and passing everything on to the disaster relief co-ordinators . |
| 14 | Jampel Changchub , aged 30 , was described as a ‘ principal member ’ of the group and was accused of ‘ collecting information and passing it on to the enemy ’ . |
| 15 | All the Official Custodian was doing was receiving the income and paying it over to the charities . |
| 16 | ‘ Sit down again , pray , ’ pleaded her hostess , reaching for her hand and pulling her back to the sofa . |
| 17 | It has become a specialist in adding value to chemicals and selling them on to the major companies . |
| 18 | For example , if the price of BP October calls with an exercise price of 220p were only 10p then investors could buy the calls and exercise by buying the shares at 220p making a total purchase price of 230p and selling them back to the market for 237p thus making a profit of 7p per share . |
| 19 | Wise and Newell scored in each half as England demonstrated the simple virtues of producing accurate crosses and getting someone on to the end of them . |
| 20 | He lay quietly , with a comfortable feeling of pleasant anticipation of the day before him , imagining his mother in her pale blue Sunday outfit getting her European car out of the garage and manoeuvring it down to the United church . |
| 21 | He was wearing an apron which made him look like a housewife , and tinkering with glass eyes , taking them out of a box and holding them up to the empty sockets of the dead bird , trying to find a matching pair that fitted . |
| 22 | She 'd hoped , thought , it would be nice if he had taken her to lunch sometimes , or let her stay to breakfast in his room at the Franz Joseph instead of pushing her out early and sending her back to the Gasthaus . |
| 23 | But felling trees , chopping them up and hauling them back to the laboratory for tests costs time and cash . |
| 24 | I became very interested in the trade union movement and my first appointment was as a collector in collecting the union dues and taking them up to the union office . |
| 25 | The road would be turning east soon , and taking them back to the main road so that they could turn south and walk back to the house . |
| 26 | Some of the near contemporary songs which have survived from the period describe Rodrigo himself as capturing Garcia and handing him over to the brothers . |
| 27 | The Germans , defeated , suffering every form of deprivation , were not and could hardly be expected to be enthusiastic about dismantling the only source of their livelihood and handing it over to the hated Russians . |
| 28 | You can use paper of similar thickness but unless you stick it in some way to the faces it is difficult to keep it in position when assembling the cores into the bobbin and bolting it down to the board . |
| 29 | She drew the pan of milk off the fire and carrying it over to the table , quickly poured it into a pint pot into which she had already spooned a generous measure of treacle . |
| 30 | Her flesh shrank away from the paw 's touch , as if gathering and compressing itself on to the bone . |