Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun prp] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It goes every day and I can assure you that your cousin who is helping Germany to victory with her work will receive them very quickly . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I was driving Kelly to Great Ormond Street Hospital in London , ’ Sandra says , ‘ and out of the blue she said to me : ‘ Mum , what happens when you die ? |
| 3 | Pioneers who are applying TQM to hotel and catering operations seem universally delighted with results , both in staff motivation and in customer satisfaction . |
| 4 | One apparent reason for the delay was the Bush adminstration 's fear that to conclude a free-trade pact in mid-1992 as originally envisaged would be an electoral liability in the US presidential contest , opening Bush to attacks from protectionists that he was encouraging US companies to relocate to Mexico in search of cheap labour while unemployment continued to rise at home . |
| 5 | PFR restart prompted the visit of Dr Brian Eyre , Deputy Chairman on Friday , 5th February , to meet Reactor Services employees congratulating them on the outstanding job of returning PFR to power . |
| 6 | ‘ The proposed course would not result in doctors starving Tony to death , but in failing to avert his death , ’ he said . |
| 7 | was intrumental in bringing Thorstvedt to Tottenham and the former England keeper also believes he 's enjoying the best form of his life . |
| 8 | Oh dear Ian Botham 's dream of helping England to victory in his last world cup campaign took thrilling shape in Perth . |
| 9 | Recommending Simon to Alain was just another part of that . |
| 10 | The friend lived at the end of the Piccadilly Line so Dennis had insisted on escorting Gillian to Covent Garden when Leicester Square would have been easier for her . |
| 11 | The police are bringing Hassan to court tomorrow too , I think . |
| 12 | But inexperienced deputy Ian Ironside definitely keeps his place for the trip to Southampton after helping Boro to wins over Manchester City and Leeds United . |
| 13 | This has led to the view that Bismarck 's real aim was to stifle Austro-Russian conflict by attaching Austria-Hungary to Germany , so that he could hold her back and prevent the two autocracies from mutual destruction . |
| 14 | How important was fear of the Socialists in bringing Mussolini to power ? |
| 15 | Pakistan 's main doubt is skipper Javed Miandad who has been laid up in London with a stomach complaint since leading Pakistan to Test victory at the Oval . |
| 16 | On one such occasion , when the head keeper and a young man were leading Joicey to safety , Joicey turned to the youngster and inquired : ‘ Have you the Gaelic , lad , have you the Gaelic ? ’ |
| 17 | Thus the emperor could settle the dynastic question by enticing Ferdinand to Bayonne and there forcing both him and his father to abdicate in favour of his own brother , Joseph ( 10 May 1808 ) . |
| 18 | Scanning teletext for the last 2 days has only revealed ‘ Gerry Francis has denied rumours he is selling Bardsley to Leeds ’ |
| 19 | The former England star played a key role in getting Sunderland to Wembley , playing with 12-stitches in a shin wound and with a broken nose late in the season . |
| 20 | ‘ Lydia was planning on sending Ari to Amazon House , ’ Leila said . |
| 21 | ‘ Ron compared getting Ray to Leeds signing Strach three years ago , and I can see what he means , ’ said McAllister . |
| 22 | He had insisted on accompanying Sharpe to Quatre Bras , not to fight , he said , but just for the chance of glimpsing the Emperor . |
| 23 | Getting Anna to England involved much heartache and effort . |
| 24 | I had half expected him to begin raving about cursed women and sending Melinda to Asyut . |
| 25 | I 'm gon na have a bit of a job getting Rob to school and over , over |
| 26 | Today augmentations are rarely given , but in times gone they were less rare and were granted to such as Thomas Howard , the victor of Flodden , Sir Winston Churchill of the reign of Charles II , his son John , first duke of Marlborough , Sir Frederick Treves , surgeon to King Edward VII , the Boleyn family for providing Anne to King Henry VIII , Admiral Nelson , the first Duke of Wellington and the Right Honourable Vincent Massey , a Governor-General of Canada . |
| 27 | Meanwhile Morrissey made a brief appearance between the pages of No. 1 when the magazine had the interesting idea of flying Morrissey to Liverpool for a tape recorded chat with Echo & The Bunnymen 's outspoken Ian McCullouch . |
| 28 | In the tenth step of the Smith family intervention , the Smiths were beginning to generalise the skills they had learned in the process of getting Keith to bed and persuading him to stay there . |
| 29 | However , in 1937 Herbert had the idea of sending John to Summerhill , a school in Suffolk which had been founded by A. S. Neill , a teacher famous ( at that time many would have said notorious ) for his views on freedom in education . |
| 30 | In 1798 the threat of military invasion from Napoleonic France had only just ebbed when the Bishop of Durham announced to a startled House of Lords that it had come to his attention that the only reason the enemy forces had backed away from military invasion was because they had hit on a more sinister method of bringing Britannia to heel . |