Example sentences of "[to-vb] [v-ing] [pron] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They meandered along under the old overhanging house fronts and Jack had to duck his head to avoid cracking it on a lamp in an iron cage . |
| 2 | the no conflict rule — a conglomerate owes a duty as fiduciary to avoid putting itself in a position where its own interests conflict with that of its clients ; |
| 3 | She wondered if Mrs Gray wanted to be fair to her husband and to avoid mentioning him in a role which showed him having to report to HQ , as it were ; or whether she wanted to be fair to Canon Wheeler , about whom , her tone suggested , she might share her husband 's opinion . |
| 4 | Tony did n't have time to waste booking him as a support act or doing a club circuit or anything like that . |
| 5 | Thus , so soon after the pronouncement of the intention to restructure industry , through trade unionism , as national co-operatives and so in effect to deny labour to conventionally organised industry , reality compelled the unions to start fashioning themselves as a response to capital rather than as an alternative to it . |
| 6 | It would have been foolhardy to risk weakening it at a time when the Cold War was about to turn hot in Korea . |
| 7 | ‘ I do n't expect he liked it , darling , but you are on holiday , and though it was very naughty of that boy to risk ringing you from a ward , you can scarcely be held responsible . ’ |
| 8 | I had to stop using it after a couple of days . ’ |
| 9 | Ten minutes later , she miaowed if I approached her and it took her several hours to forgive me and to stop treating me like a walking cat repellent . |
| 10 | And the first step is to stop treating him like a tube of toothpaste — something you can squeeze the contents out of whenever it suits you — and start appreciating him for the easy-going patient guy he obviously is . |