Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wilson 's own choice of metaphor was no longer that of the centre forward , but the seasoned centre half feeding passes to his experienced forwards and allowing them to score the goals . |
| 2 | Investors can take out a combination Pep , allowing them to choose the balance they want between the two plans , though they have to put at least £500 in each one . |
| 3 | Maggie stared at him and Ana held out her hand , allowing them to see the glittering ring at last . |
| 4 | It is difficult to see how the rock platform can entirely dissipate the wave energy , as , if the waves break on it , they must presumably erode it , thus ultimately allowing them to reach the foot of the cliff again . |
| 5 | On the other hand , two other cases involving individuals seeking asylum in foreign embassies were resolved by the authorities allowing them to leave the country . |
| 6 | The horns from the Zimbabwean project are kept in storage by the National Parks Department , in the hope that present international bans on rhino trading may be lifted , allowing them to sell the horns to raise money for conservation . |
| 7 | On Aug. 18 Finance Minister Tsutomu Hata had attempted to restore confidence by announcing a series of measures aimed at discouraging financial institutions from selling shares until the end of September , and allowing them to postpone the reporting of unrealised losses on share holdings until the end of the financial year , in March 1993 . |
| 8 | The Deee-Lite canvas has been stretched even tighter , allowing them to twist the dance beats of the last two decades into ever more kooky shapes . |
| 9 | The elections were conducted under a new electoral law passed by the NUP-controlled Assembly in October 1989 , under which additional seats were given to the larger parties , thus allowing them to gain the maximum number of seats with the minimum of votes . |
| 10 | The question , therefore , was how to satisfy the aspirations of the political groupings , without allowing them to gain the upper hand ; how to make use of their mobilizing capacities , without these being used to ends other than those approved by the Commander-in-Chief , Generalísimo Franco . |
| 11 | The crucial experiment is to rear male crickets without allowing them to hear the song of other crickets . |
| 12 | contacting employers and encouraging them to use the ES to fill their vacancies ; |
| 13 | But the same kind of people , very often , who are in trouble , are the ones who want somewhere quiet and peaceful where they can be alone with God and they can pray , and so in a sense it 's not a matter of turn them out of the church , it 's a matter of of encouraging them to use the church building in particular ways . |
| 14 | One useful strategy is to give patients weekend leave on several occasions before discharge , encouraging them to discuss the difficulties that they have experienced on their return to the ward . |
| 15 | Right , now they 're both ethers try and name them first in naming them take the biggest hydro-carbon chunk that you can find and pretend that that was an alkane so the smaller chunk then becomes the substituant . |
| 16 | Old Mrs Gardner , who ran the post office and general store — the only shop in the small Scottish village — knew where most of Mom 's widow 's pension went and suggested I should persuade her to sign a consent form , allowing me to collect the pension . |
| 17 | The father 's real purpose in allowing me to visit the family was not so much to get help , but to recoup the £40 he had spent on satanist scriptures , which he wanted to sell to me . |
| 18 | My thanks to David Bogie , studio manager and Fish for their time and patience — and for allowing me to visit the Funny Farm . |
| 19 | I ca n't see him allowing me take the children so far away from London . ’ |
| 20 | The bottom half hangs down , allowing me to transfer the envelope to inside my coat . |
| 21 | It is always useful for a student of acting to have some practical knowledge of stage management , helping him/her to appreciate the need for efficient technical support for any production . |
| 22 | We shall generally ignore paralinguistic features in spoken language in this book since the data we shall quote from is spoken by co-operative adults who are not exploiting paralinguistic resources against the verbal meanings of their utterances but are , rather , using them to reinforce the meaning . |
| 23 | Female visitors were cheap , a point in their favour which continued to be emphasised as late as 1920 , when the Local Government Board considered the possibility of using them to inspect the homes of widows drawing poor relief . |
| 24 | Another serious objection to this HCF kind of approach is that it fails to prepare pupils for the real world , helping them to appreciate the strength of religious conviction and extend to people of all kinds of religious persuasion , including those dubbed as " fundamentalist " or " extremist " , real empathy and desire to understand their positions . |
| 25 | Helping them recognize the feeling of when they want to go can be an important component for the older pre-school child . |
| 26 | We will ensure that all 14–19 year olds have a personal tutor and careers advice , helping them build the foundations for personal fulfilment and success . |
| 27 | ‘ That is what makes them different from other student movements , since they work with the oppressed and underprivileged , making them more aware of their role and situation in society and helping them to realise the need to organise themselves and to start doing the work by themselves . ’ |
| 28 | Encouraging staff to appreciate the cost of information goes some way towards helping them to quantify the value of information . ’ |
| 29 | It is about helping them to recognise the resources that they have to offer one another and to use them effectively in response to individual interests and learning needs . |
| 30 | Recognizing the fact that they do not seem to be enjoying their children and are missing the fun of childhood can be one way into helping them realize the value of a positive approach . |