Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] [noun] to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the most arduous of these was in my junior days when I picked up a seaman in the docks attempting to sell cigarettes to a factory worker . |
| 2 | " I look as if I were going to give birth to an elephant at any minute ! " |
| 3 | Consider who is going to have access to a terminal . |
| 4 | Another of his treasures , the seventh volume of Gaud Maybellome 's Encyclopaedia of Heavenly Signs , originally written in the language of Third Dominion academics but widely translated for the delectation of the proletariat , he 'd bought from a woman in the city of Jassick , who 'd approached him in a gaming room where he was attempting to explain cricket to a group of the locals , and said she recognized him from stories her husband ( who was in the Autarch 's army in Yzordderrex ) had told . |
| 5 | I would call genealogy … a form of history which can account for the constitution of knowledges , discourses , domains of objects etc. , without having to make reference to a subject which is either transcendental in relation to the field of events or runs in its empty sameness throughout the course of history . |
| 6 | They were the ones nipping in and out of the general ruck , tapping ankles , trying to spray-paint out the windows and one of them even trying to set fire to a bunch of leaflets stuffed through Naamen 's letter-box . |
| 7 | In the second of his reports from Romania , Mike Rowbottom looks at the mountain of bureaucracy which blocks the path of aid workers trying to bring help to a country in desperate need . |
| 8 | Arranging Deals — making or offering to make arrangements to a person buying , selling , subscribing or underwriting investments . |