Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] [pron] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The putting of the city to the ban , or devoting it to the Lord , as the RSV puts it , is part of Joshua 's final orders to the people on the seventh day , and receives no mention in God 's initial instructions to him . |
| 2 | Another one of his tricks was to lurk behind the counter at the Turk 's Head so customers would think there was no one there , and then , when they were thinking of leaving or helping themselves to the jam doughnuts , he 'd leap on to a wooden box to bring his large dome head just above the level of the counter and say , ‘ Can I help you ? ’ in a very loud voice . |
| 3 | A quota is established by dividing the total number of valid votes by the number of members to be elected plus one , and rounding up or adding one to the quotient . |
| 4 | We argue out the whys and wherefores of putting our aged relatives in geriatric homes , taking early retirement , buying a pet for the children , or taking them to the circus . |
| 5 | That 's that 's one thing , but is finding the tenth root of something and then raising to the power six , or raising something to the power six and then finding the sa the tenth root , is that the same as finding the fifth root and cubing it or cubing it and finding the fifth root . |
| 6 | A warehouseman with whom goods have been deposited is guilty of no conversion by keeping them , or restoring them to the person who deposited them with him , though that person turns out to have had no authority from the true owner . ’ |
| 7 | It is recommended that this error log is never allowed to grow so large that typing it to the screen takes a significant amount of time . |
| 8 | This is seen as a shade different from the enforcement of a sentence as such ; and there can be a practical difference where , as is often the case , the enforcing State keeps the confiscated property rather than than transmitting it to the State in which the order was made . |
| 9 | What you are aiming at is a steady indication on the localiser needle , rather than returning it to the centre . |
| 10 | Many of the great fortunes in this country are still in the hands of the landed aristocracy who tend to be preoccupied with maintaining their great estates and country houses , no doubt feeling that opening them to the public is in itself a form of patronage . |
| 11 | And as Hotspur turned to face him , in mild but sympathetic surprise : ‘ He can not suppose that allying himself to the duchess of Brittany will either placate or frighten the French . |
| 12 | The touchline was the launchpad — more so against Ireland than France — of some of Scotland 's best driving mauls and highlighted the danger of players swelling defensive ranks rather than committing themselves to the maul . |
| 13 | After fulling , the cloth was well rinsed and , now reduced from 35″ to 27″ in width , was taken to the tenter ground to be stretched to shape by fastening hooks in the selvedge and attaching them to the tenter frames . |
| 14 | It was established that individual pathetic character once and forever by tying one end of his pocket handkerchief to a hook on , in the wall and attaching himself to the other to the performance , to , to the performance of this feat however the pocket handkerchief inside had been all he , he only cried bitterly all day and when the longest nights came on he spread his little hand before his eyes to shut out the darkness and crouching in the corner tried to sleep , everyone drawing himself closer and closer to the wall |
| 15 | It has managed to fall flat on its ‘ face ’ after climbing to the very top of the glass and attaching itself to the underside of the small glass shelf that runs along the top , which , by the way , made it almost impossible to feed . |
| 16 | Right across the village , men and women stooped over , black forms against a world of white , shovelling great heaps of snow and tumbling them to the ground in frothy white cascades . |
| 17 | Some County Councils , notably West Sussex , already operate successful schemes of composting waste and reselling it to the public and surely Hertfordshire could do the same . |
| 18 | This shows that only by allowing the authority 's judgment to pre-empt mine altogether will I succeed in improving my performance and bringing it to the level of the authority . |
| 19 | We should be spending a great deal of our time making children into heroes , identifying good work , putting good examples of work on display and bringing it to the attention of others . |
| 20 | Mr R. Batson , Hyssington for preparing the plans and submitting them to the Local Authority for planning permission . |
| 21 | Impatiently he finished the task , ripping the material from his shoulders and tossing it to the floor . |
| 22 | At this stage , a diagrammatic area layout is prepared , showing the ideal space requirement , and relating it to the space allocated . |
| 23 | So you know what this is a measure of it 's not a measure of anything it does n't mean that one group 's done better than the others it just means that 's the way it 's been measured the work that they 've done has been measured by another group which is n't good or bad it 's just hopefully picking out the important criteria and applying them to the work that we 've done and the notes we 've produced and the way we 've marked other people 's . |
| 24 | The backing sheet is then removed from the film before wetting it and applying it to the window . |
| 25 | There , sure enough , I found the recipe for dissolving phosphorus in olive oil and applying it to the face for a ‘ ghost ’ . |
| 26 | Once the fry have hatched , both parents remain on guard , leading the fry out of the cave in a school to feed , and returning them to the safety of the cave at night . |
| 27 | It involves sucking the contaminated oil into a cleaning system housed in a mobile trailer , cleaning it and returning it to the transformer . |
| 28 | Farmers and landowners are being offered annual payments of up to £300 per hectare for conserving and re-creating traditional English habitats and opening them to the public . |
| 29 | But if the reputation as high-handed , unloved and ruthless stepmother hurt ( and it clearly did ) , it did not deflect her from her purpose of re-vamping Althorp and opening it to the public as a top-attraction stately home in a competitive business . |
| 30 | This will include both initial restoration work and the annual deficit on running the house and opening it to the public . |