Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] [adv] to do " in BNC.
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| 1 | The atmosphere was one of people enjoying themselves in their own way and allowing everyone else to do so too . |
| 2 | She was trusting me not to do that , putting that power in my hands . |
| 3 | By section 12 , the senior police officer is empowered to impose conditions on the proposed march if he reasonably believes that it may result in serious public disorder , serious damage to property or serious disruption to the life of the community , or alternatively that the purpose of persons organising the march is to intimidate others ‘ with a view to compelling them not to do an act they have a right to do , or to do an act they have a right not to do . ’ |
| 4 | The wording of section 12(1) ( b ) is , however , slightly unfortunate in requiring the intimidation of others ‘ with a view to compelling them not to do an act they have a right to do , or to do an act they have a right not to do . ’ |
| 5 | The grounds upon which the powers to impose conditions may be exercised are very similar to those which are available in relation to processions ; section 14 provides that if the senior police officer believes that a public assembly may result in serious public disorder , serious damage to property or serious disruption to the life of the community , or that the purposes of the persons organising it is to intimidate others with a view to compelling them not to do an act they have a right to do , or to do an act they have a right not to do , he may impose conditions as to the place of the assembly , its maximum duration or the maximum number of persons who may constitute it as may appear to him necessary to prevent the disorder , damage , disruption or intimidation . |
| 6 | An injunction is an order directing someone not to do something . |
| 7 | He takes the belt to them for nicking one minute , and then the next he 's sending them out to do it . |
| 8 | Teaching them how to do that is education , not cramming . ’ |
| 9 | Phoebe loathed housekeeping so profoundly that she felt guilty about it and always did it with a disciplined and joyless rigour , expecting everyone else to do so too . |
| 10 | ‘ Right , it 's kitchen fatigues for you when you 're on your feet again , ’ said Joe , ‘ and that 'll include teaching you how to do a fair job of work on spuds . |
| 11 | Somehow , and she did n't know why , she could n't see him getting anybody else to do his dirty work . |
| 12 | They seemed to be teaching him how to do things he did n't want to do more than anything else . |
| 13 | They were concerned with variety of opinion , editorial freedom , partisan bias — values having nothing directly to do with economics and industry . |
| 14 | ‘ We are quite capable of running our own piggy bank , without asking someone else to do it for us . ’ |
| 15 | She had now grown quite used to Betty who had , on the whole , been very patient with her ; and , once accepted , it was restful having someone around to do the cooking and the washing-up . |
| 16 | ‘ All it means is you ca n't sort yourself out and you are asking somebody else to do it for you . ’ |
| 17 | But , eh listen , if , do n't be frighten if there 's anything that you do n't know do n't you be frightened of asking him how to do it |
| 18 | Well my there 's never any please , there 's never any thank you , there 's nothing , I mean there are are n't they , when he was saying that all he 's done for her and they virtually like turned their back on them , he got out in all those winds and weather were n't it , but , we built there and he come out apparently and said I do n't want you having anything else to do with my kids , |
| 19 | The new government , perhaps not knowing what else to do , took the drastic step of freezing all savings , while abandoning wage indexing even though inflation was still running at about 8 per cent a month . |
| 20 | Not knowing what else to do ( though now , suddenly , there was an awareness in her of where the burrow lay , point nine of a klick to the south-south-east , and the trail unscrolled before her taking forty-seven metric minutes at the pace they 'd come ) , Jezrael drifted along behind his back . |
| 21 | ‘ Very kind of you to say so , ’ Dyson would reply , not knowing what else to do , but turning his back for shame on Bob and poor old Eddy 's empty desk . |
| 22 | Not knowing what else to do , Theda first found a fresh cap and tucked away her dangerous locks , and then began to lay out her clothes , retrieving her portmanteau from under the bed . |
| 23 | once and he was showing me how to do it , I could he hardly hit the |
| 24 | I do n't know what the parents of some of my students are going to think when I 'm showing them how to do G C S E maths on the computer instead of the rather . |
| 25 | Most men have maternal teaching to thank for showing them how to do it , says the Guild of British Tie Makers . |
| 26 | Showing them how to do simple dishes . |
| 27 | The meaning that they gave it should send cold shivers down the spine of any parent : fully a half thought that it was an instruction to cross the road , and half of these thought that it was showing you how to do it — by running ! |
| 28 | I have n't got time to start showing you how to do anything . |
| 29 | So Mrs was showing you how to do this ? |
| 30 | I will have no trouble finding something else to do . ’ |