Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While C2 Certificate holders would normally proceed directly into employment , there should , however , be opportunities for some students to acquire credits allowing them eventually to obtain a C1 Certificate . |
| 2 | The atmosphere was one of people enjoying themselves in their own way and allowing everyone else to do so too . |
| 3 | As we shall see later in the chapter , however , there is a potential conflict between using interest rates to control the demand for money and using them also to control the exchange rate . |
| 4 | Compared with Mitroff 's earlier paper , there is much more emphasis here on linking stakeholder analysis with research into cognitive schemas , and a greater recognition that there may be problems both in identifying the schemas , often held unconsciously , and in bringing them together to inform the corporate debate about strategy . |
| 5 | I did enjoy our cup of tea together , and thank you for trusting me enough to tell me about your husband 's alcoholism . |
| 6 | What 's the point of returning to work and allowing someone else to bring up the child ? |
| 7 | In 1835 de Tocqueville admired ‘ the extreme skill with which the inhabitants of the United States succeed in proposing a common object for the exertions of a great many men and inducing them voluntarily to pursue it . ’ |
| 8 | But Mr. Munby so treated them because , in his submission , section 8 conferred complete autonomy on such minors , thus enabling them effectively to refuse medical treatment irrespective of how parental responsibilities might be sought to be exercised . |
| 9 | They had all been inhibited from plain speaking by the lavish hospitality , the fresh scampi with avocado had been too ‘ mucked about ’ for her taste , while that dreadful black man had insisted on telling her all about his times in and out of the ring with ‘ Big Frank ’ ( ‘ a lovely suit of clothes ’ ) , interrupting himself only to raise his glass of pink wine to Sir Ralph who had , in his opinion , ‘ done us proud ’ . |
| 10 | Everyone admires her for working so hard , for thrashing herself relentlessly to entertain the troops and keep the fans happy . |
| 11 | It was tearing her apart to know how much he must love the pale , blank-eyed girl . |
| 12 | I mean Mao will have no merit in actually distorting it deliberately to try and motivate his leaders because |
| 13 | ‘ Once our new developments come on stream , the group will experience strong cash flow , enabling it both to reduce borrowings and to resume dividend payments , ’ he promised . |
| 14 | Our task is to bring back the mass-production element into the house-building industry , which can be done only by enabling it largely to work on its own authority for a prospective demand — by ‘ letting the dog see the rabbit ’ . |
| 15 | Colonel Windsor refilled it , and Tubby took a large swallow before gathering himself together to reply . |
| 16 | Typically of experienced teachers recognising the potential weakness of the whole venture ( it will in fact only succeed if the pupils are determined to make it succeed — not something one can often rely on ! ) , precautions were adopted such as warning them beforehand to mark out the route they take , and ( the final card up teacher 's sleeve as pupils start to get killed all over the place ) to come in as narrator saying , ‘ Suddenly , for no apparent reason , the danger passed and the members returned to safety ’ ! |
| 17 | and used steel cans and that it was costing them less to use that than it was to use |
| 18 | At one point on the next night Jordi drew me into the shadows and to my astonishment produced a vicious-looking switch-blade knife , warning me never to look at another man in his presence . |
| 19 | ‘ But it is not fair that your remorse should be turned in the direction of seeking someone else to blame . ’ |
| 20 | Phonelink is also developing Tel-me further to handle data from a whole range of information providers . |
| 21 | She had to twist around to follow him , and still her elbow and shoulder screamed ; she fell back as he let her go , pushing her slightly to make her stagger . |
| 22 | That may have been one factor in causing her subsequently to bring up the children in the Jewish faith . |
| 23 | He would lie , exhausted among the twisted sheets , his head buried under the pillow , urging her silently to switch the damn thing off . |
| 24 | Richard Dyer has described how Coward 's songwriting , along with that of other gay lyricists like Cole Porter and Lorenz Hart , can be productively reread in terms of their specifically homosexual perception of the double-edged nature of romantic love — simultaneously wanting it desperately to happen but convinced of the impossible ridiculousness of any such desire . |
| 25 | Neither Fairfax nor Lady De Marr notices them but , drunk as I am , I feel them imploring us mutely to go away . |
| 26 | I made one in trusting you enough to open up my heart to you about my ex-fiancé . |
| 27 | ‘ Removing you from her vicinity is the least I can do after bringing you here to betray her . ’ |
| 28 | Limiting the options of the young , by forcing them either to remain dependent on their families or to join YTP or JTP schemes , was unacceptable . |
| 29 | A Rover spokesman said , ’ It is the German manufacturers which are forcing everyone else to follow suit just as the Germans forced catalytic convertors on the market as the answer to emission problems when most other manufacturers were developing lean burn engine technology to achieve the same result more effectively . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ There was no way I was paying them just to change money . |