Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] to [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Are you using them to their best advantage ? |
| 2 | Once the laws are introduced , the coaches and the players will try to devise means of using them to their own advantage . |
| 3 | Even in the half-tones of night she could see the narrowing of those dangerous sapphire eyes , see sparks of desire bringing them to their full colour . |
| 4 | He also took government subsidies for agriculture , applying them to his catch-cropping enterprise . |
| 5 | Jessamy had known straight away that nothing would ever throw her off balance , that she would deal with life 's disasters and crises in a calm , dispassionate way , finally resolving them to her own satisfaction . |
| 6 | ‘ I was angry ! ’ he admitted , thrusting his hands into the pockets of his trousers as he studied her , his eyes traversing her slender form , raking over the tangle of dark hair , her susceptible grey eyes , her full , sensual mouth , before lowering them in slow appraisal of her trim figure then returning them to her querulous expression . |
| 7 | You can derive an enormous amount of satisfaction from restoring old frames and returning them to their former glory , and it is astonishing the number of attractive frames that are discarded when someone changes the colour scheme of their home or sorts through their attic and throws out something that is battered but still beautiful . |
| 8 | In practice this often meant that immature minds would take over Leavis 's own evaluations without relating them to their own experience of literature , resulting in the diffusion of callow or inept judgements that has been condemned from the right by C. S. Lewis and from the left by Catherine Belsey . |
| 9 | We have so far limited our interpretation of " style " and " stylistics " to match the kind of activity in which we wish to engage : the study of language as used in literary texts , with the aim of relating it to its artistic functions . |
| 10 | This may mean demolishing the building or returning it to its original use . |
| 11 | Scott pulled the Beretta from its shoulder holster and handed it to Hitch , who held the weapon for a minute before returning it to its rightful owner . |
| 12 | Having made his choice , he showed her a short , stout leather strap , before applying it to her naked seat . |
| 13 | To put it another way , he was aware of the idea of divided consciousness , much discussed in his day , and here and elsewhere he can be seen applying it to his own actions . |
| 14 | He was again imprisoned in 1677 for six months for failing to attend the Church of England 's services , but for the remainder of his life was free , devoting himself to his pastoral duties and his writings . |
| 15 | No doubt busy proving himself to his latest admirer . |
| 16 | It does , however , test the arguments being put in this paper , by pushing them to their logical conclusion : that the preferred level of preventive work will vary according to the model of welfare espoused . |
| 17 | Oh ! hear me witness that my heart is set on higher things ; it would sail into far seas unvisited of man , but always there is this anchor of the flesh chaining it to its native shore . ’ |
| 18 | Peeling and torn adverts advertise the ‘ Summer Sun ’ a middle aged woman , in a tweed suit looks up and reads it as an excuse to turn away from her neighbour , an ‘ undesirable type ’ or a young again middle aged man greased back hair , a black fake leather jacket with sheep skin bits appearing here and there and a necklace protruding from his left nostril eventually attaching itself to his right ear . |
| 19 | Fletcher first played for Essex in 1962 , was capped the following year and captained the county from 1974–85 and in 1988 , leading them to their first-ever Championship in 1979 . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , it is obvious that by limiting himself to his own observations in a remote valley , he would soon exhaust his material : he therefore drew on Dorothy 's Journals and upon other people 's experiences , for example in Alice Fell , The Solitary Reaper ( observed by Wilkinson who ‘ Passed a female who was reaping alone ’ ) , and The Kitten and Falling Leaves ( rough draft by Coleridge printed in Notebooks , vol. i , 1813 ) . |
| 21 | He might even find a way of turning it to his own advantage . |
| 22 | In recent years there have been many attacks on what is sometimes called the classic realist novel on similar grounds : that far from being a means of communication it is a means of ideological domination and repression , reproducing on the cultural level the processes of industrial capitalism , making its audience passive consumers , reconciling them to their alienated state instead of liberating them from it , by making it appear normal or natural . |
| 23 | In 1895 , when the ratemahatmaya of Katugampola Hatpattu in Kurunagala complained that Low Countrymen from Chilaw district were stealing cattle and removing them to their own district , the Low Country mudaliyar concerned replied that the charge was false , and that Kandyans were involved in the few cases of cattle stealing . |
| 24 | ‘ You 're sending me to my lonely bed ? ’ |
| 25 | Maybe , she thought with an acrobatic leap of logic , this was by way of telling her that she should start acclimatising herself to her old way of life , because that was where she would be in less than two days ' time . |
| 26 | The telephone watch receiver is used in two ways : ( 1 ) holding it to your other ear when using the ‘ phone may ( depending on your hearing loss ) provide better speech reception and prevent interference from background noise ; ( 2 ) you speak on the telephone in the ordinary way , and someone ( a child can do it ) listens through the watch receiver and repeats to you what the speaker says , which you then speechread and reply direct to the caller . |
| 27 | They are reconciling themselves to their own mortality . |
| 28 | So , while committing me to my own class , my politics also has its own critique of working-class life and institutions . |
| 29 | That Bernard had broken noses defending her to his chauvinistic schoolmates . |
| 30 | Yet for the past two years , Zara has had almost inseparable on-court support from coach Michael Ferguson , who she warmly credits for bringing her to her current level . |