Example sentences of "to [v-ing] [pron] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ' . |
| 2 | In moral matters he confined himself solely to warning me of the dangers of masturbation . |
| 3 | In consequence , the reader 's task is limited to deciding which of the voices work , in terms of authenticity , plausibility and interest , and which do not . |
| 4 | The emergence of the stream-of-consciousness novel at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries was obviously related to a huge epistemological shift in culture at large , from locating reality in the objective world of actions and things as perceived by common sense , to locating it in the minds of individual thinking subjects , each of whom constructs their own reality , and has difficulty in matching it with the reality constructed by others . |
| 5 | In the past , such a sweeping move would have taken the form of a peremptory decree , but the new parliament is committed to doing everything by the rules . |
| 6 | I 'm … er … afraid I did n't get round to doing anything for the understudies . ’ |
| 7 | A lower level route is also a good option for days when you 're not feeling up to making it across the tops . |
| 8 | By the time Oldfield and his bride-to-be at last arrived , Joan and Richard had fallen to speculating which of the marriages would end in divorce . |
| 9 | PCBs are so difficult to destroy , that Rechem 's emission-monitoring systems are geared to detecting them on the grounds that if you destroy PCBs you destroy everything . |