Example sentences of "to [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we identify something we pin it down and are halfway to mastering it . |
| 2 | 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 ' . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | " 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 . " |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Ace smiled , amused that Belle was back to using we instead of I . |
| 12 | Metrolink 's operator , Greater Manchester Metro , thinks the trams will be more successful because , as Mr Don Kenny , the commercial director , says : ‘ There is no stigma to using them . ’ |
| 13 | So Form programs take up less space and , once you are used to using them , are easy to follow . |
| 14 | Notes should therefore be taken in a consistent format that allows you the greatest flexibility when it comes to using them . |
| 15 | Again they will save writing things out in full once you get used to using them . |
| 16 | At that stage my priorities lay elsewhere , and to start playing with inhibitors seemed a diversion — when I have turned to using them , in the late eighties , as I shall describe in Chapter 10 , it was with rather more specific goals in mind . |
| 17 | Gets used to using them as if they 're real . |
| 18 | And what the rules are to using them . |
| 19 | Most people now have domestic models in their homes and so are used to using them . |
| 20 | I am about to acquire a C reg Range Rover EFi with a view to using it as my sleeping quarters on holiday . |
| 21 | Find I 'm down to using it twice a week now . |
| 22 | Ward 's excuse for talking in Spanish had been that he was accustoming himself to using it freely . |
| 23 | I use Preservene 's White Snow which is the cheapest soap powder on the Australian market though there is a knack to using it as it is slow to dissolve , being fine lumps of pure soap . |
| 24 | Despite their criticism , peer review is the method most commonly used within the Research Councils for evaluating the scientific contributions of their own staff , in addition to using it for the evaluation of research proposals . |
| 25 | Existing software which incorporates documentation procedures is being evaluated with a view to using it as a basis for this development . |
| 26 | that he injected Royan with a substance he knew would harm him , in the presence of the press , and failed to given him adequate medical attention . |
| 27 | To decorate a dish of smoked salmon , so beautiful in itself , with lettuce leaves , or to strew it with tufts of cress , is not to make that salmon which has cost 38s. a pound look as if it cost £3 , but to belittle it so that you begin to feel it is some bargain basement left-over which needs to be disguised . |
| 28 | Obligations of this kind are sometimes found in the Articles , as an alternative , or in addition , to including them in the subscription and shareholders ' agreement . |
| 29 | She hoisted her umbrella to ward off the light drizzle that had started to fall , gave me a couple of twenty-pound notes , said she 'd look forward to seeing me on Friday , kissed my cheek , then went off to do her shopping . |
| 30 | But they will object to seeing me . ’ |