Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] [v-ing] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor did he much approve of subjecting himself to the nervous exhaustion of house parties as other peoples ' guest . |
| 2 | It was ridiculous that he should think of lowering himself through the floor of the carriage , that he should contemplate hanging for moments or minutes beneath the train , that he should consider allowing himself to fall on to the frozen stones between the wheels . |
| 3 | How could he think of abandoning her to the malevolent clutches of this voracious monster ? |
| 4 | So we hid it somewhere really good , where nobody 'd think of looking ! — Anyway , it do n't matter about putting it in the bank now , does it ? |
| 5 | The only provision of Order 11 under which leave might be given was that dealing with the case where ‘ in the action begun by the writ an injunction is sought ordering the defendant to do or refrain from doing anything within the jurisdiction … |
| 6 | Though Larry does not ultimately succeed in reintegrating himself into the world , his efforts to come to terms with the consequences of his experience in the death world of his hallucination indicate a potential mode of interpersonal relation that would provide the basis for a more ‘ sane ’ existence . |
| 7 | How did the company benefit from having me on the staff ? |
| 8 | The Messiah has done for us what we could never do in putting us in the right with God ; and the gift of his Spirit releases us from the need to try to justify ourselves . |
| 9 | Let us finish by reminding ourselves of the traditional skills and purposes of historians . |
| 10 | As Russia 's only properly elected leader ever , he should hesitate before putting himself outside the law . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'll definitely stick to wearing them in the future , ’ he told me in an exclusive interview . |
| 12 | ‘ As far as I and the society is concerned that was a warm-blooded animal that can suffer pain and starvation , just like any human being , and we will not apologise for bringing it to the court 's attention , ’ he said . |
| 13 | Yes does anyone want to saying anything about the card ? |
| 14 | Do you dream of making it to the top of the corporate tree whilst still short of the tooth and long in ideas ? |
| 15 | She knows she could have gone much further but would not dream of stabbing anyone in the back to get on , even if they deserved it . |
| 16 | ‘ Procedures were carried out with care and precision on a ‘ right first time ’ principle — they did not rely on adjusting something at the end of the process to get it right . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Many would subscribe towards sinking him to the ocean bed . |
| 18 | Because producers are valuing the resources in terms of the price producers could get by transferring them to the meals industry . |
| 19 | You may well be able to foretell how the card may operate by examining it against the picture of the results on page 28 of the manual . |
| 20 | My Proposition , embracing The House of the Dead , Notes from Underground , Crime and Punishment , The Possessed , Karamazov , and , negatively , by way of relative failure , The Idiot , is that Dostoevsky could only promote his dearest values by creeping up on their blind side : in other words that he had an urge towards crisis and clarity which he could only satisfy by yielding it to the enemy — to the horror of the flogging routine in the ‘ Thy kingdom come ’ episode in the Dead House at one chronological extreme , and to Ivan Karamazov 's showdown with the Religion Swindle at the other . |
| 21 | He might start by transferring himself from the wheelchair across onto a seat in the bath , and washing himself sitting up . |
| 22 | ‘ Why , you 'll start by asking everyone on the Woodfield Estate , and if we still have n't found him , we 'll work our way through the rest of town . |