Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was fun with the children when they were younger , too , telling them stories about life in the countryside , taking them out — ‘ go all over the place with him , yes ’ — and seeing them to bed : ‘ he always give us a piggyback up the stairs to bed . ’ |
| 2 | He had unfortunately proceeded to mar them by fastening them to strips of card with paper clips , which had rusted and left their foul trail on the bookmarks . |
| 3 | Silas 's emotional affairs are not your problem , so why are you allowing them to snake about in your mind ? |
| 4 | This involves a willingness to acknowledge that co-operation can be difficult and that mistakes will occur , and a commitment to making the solving of problems a priority , rather than allowing them to fester . |
| 5 | This requires cutting the instructions to a bare minimum , so that you are , in effect , just providing them with the seed of an idea , and allowing them to culture it . |
| 6 | Catalytic converters are poisoned and damaged by leaded petrol ; attaching them to cars forces drivers to run only on unleaded fuel , an added bonus . |
| 7 | As Mr Torode points out , our liberal forefathers insisted on the importance of testing faiths by submitting them to discussion . |
| 8 | Attempts to make the arts accountable by submitting them to forms of assessment which properly belong elsewhere may actually make them appear wanting by looking for inappropriate forms of proof . |
| 9 | Geologists had chiefly looked horizontally where fossils were concerned , using them to date strata rather than following resemblances vertically through time . |
| 10 | One important aspect of attributing differences to biology as opposed to attributing them to culture is that the second type of explanation leaves room for views to change , while the former appears to rule this out . |
| 11 | But , as with any archaeological object , such interpretations can be made only when we have a secure idea of when and where a coin was made , and the methods of dating coins and attributing them to mints is therefore discussed first in Chapter 2 , where it will also be seen that the same techniques for dating and attributing coins can sometimes be turned round , using coins to date other objects or to identify places . |
| 12 | Ivory tower allergists discount reactions to food unless an IgE mechanism has been proved , but denying them or attributing them to hypochondriasis is a sign not of scientific superiority but of a head in the sand mentality . |
| 13 | Scientists are excited by this computer approach to archaeology and they 've plans to reconstruct other great buildings of the past bringing them to life once again . |
| 14 | They 're not actually that im they 're not important about bringing them to faith . |
| 15 | The man who was the driving force behind bringing them to Britain for surgery was Sir Jimmy Savile . |
| 16 | I have a lot of fond memories of Lotus and the people there , but bringing them to Chrysler , I never considered it . |
| 17 | Even though most of these reforms benefited from widespread political and public support , de Gaulle had played a critical role in bringing them to fruition . |
| 18 | Leave out obscure remarks , jargon , and private jokes , otherwise you 'll have to keep explaining them to people all evening . |
| 19 | He said to me once , when he was driving me to school , that there was nothing left to believe in these days . |
| 20 | It was this nagging feeling that was driving me to Kano and had increased my daily average to 19.6 miles . |
| 21 | The cube building is the base , with consulting rooms in the basement and the sides of the cube are a honeycomb of booths soft furnished with couch , video screen , audio input — and the article as common in every house as the telephone once was , the communications terminal , enabling me to key-in my needs . |
| 22 | ‘ Natty suddenly called out , ‘ Look massa ’ ; in an instant the air before us seemed literally filled with a dense mass of these birds , which had suddenly rose from under the trees at his exclamation ; we had scarcely time to raise our guns before they were seventy or eighty yards off ; our united discharge , however , brought down eight additional specimens , all of which being merely winged and fluttering about , attracted the attention of our kangaroo dogs , and it was with the greatest difficulty that they could be prevented from tearing them to pieces ; in the midst of the scramble , a kite , with the utmost audacity , came to the attack , and would doubtless , in spite of our presence , have carried off his share , had not the contents of my second barrel stopped his career . |
| 23 | If they can prevent frustration with the crotchety old Ghost from driving them to violence , they could obtain some very useful information from him . |
| 24 | To hand them over to the Russians is condemning them to slavery , torture and probably death . |
| 25 | Harold Macmillan 's diary entry describing his meeting at Klagenfurt on 13 May ( only a day after the last group had surrendered ) states that he was informed that " among the surrendered Germans are about 40,000 Cossacks and " White " Russians with their wives and children " , and he notes that " to hand them over to the Russians is condemning them to slavery , torture and probably death . |
| 26 | A130 neighbours Braintree can do them a favour today by beating the islanders and condemning them to relegation , while improving their own lowly position in their first season at this level . |
| 27 | The government are actually indifferent as to whether you you borrow , and consume your capita er , your credit approvals , or whether you consume your credit approvals by applying them to capital receipts which will be used to buy further capital assets . |
| 28 | I am borrowing the conclusions and applying them to beavers , because beavers are more interesting and congenial to many people than worms . |
| 29 | Only last week one of the ‘ free ’ newspapers which regularly infested his hallway had reported a spate of knife attacks by gangs who ‘ worked ’ the lines , preying on travellers late at night and early in the morning , robbing them of their valuables and occasionally , to relieve the monotony , stabbing them to death . |
| 30 | Cetaceans breathe through a blowhole at the top of their heads , enabling them to surface to take a breath while still swimming . |