Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [v-ing] to [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had been told about periods at primary school when I was ten years old , but apart from that , the only information I had was what I got through talking to friends at school , because some had older sisters who had already started . |
| 2 | Suggestions ranged from hacksawing to blow-torches . |
| 3 | In this it resembled the British constitution itself , which , as apo-logists delight in explaining to foreigners , is nowhere embodied in a single document having the force of law . |
| 4 | I am the treasurer of an organisation devoted to writing to prisoners under sentence of death in the Caribbean . |
| 5 | They deny , however , that anything useful is added by referring to states of the brain in terms of awareness or consciousness , or even as representations of the environment . |
| 6 | A few grams can be legitimately shed by stripping to undershorts and T — shirts . |
| 7 | You 've heard of talking to plants to boost their growth , but what about stroking them to keep pests away ? |
| 8 | In these circumstances there was much to be said for sticking to forms that were known and accepted ; and in spite of the great list of possible wordings in PS , the Digest does not give the impression that the more obscure terms were much used . |
| 9 | Discipline is thus ‘ a very general notion which is connected with conforming to rules ’ , whereas punishment is ‘ a much more specific notion which is usually only appropriate where there has been a breach of rules ’ . |
| 10 | Heather appeared in court manacled and was prevented from talking to reporters after his hearing . |
| 11 | Pupils at Key Stage 2 will also benefit from listening to stories . |
| 12 | ‘ The idea came from speaking to businessmen who had missed important meetings after being stuck in a cab in heavy traffic , ’ says Cave . |
| 13 | erm but these things could be done without going to committees , without any problem whatsoever if we just have this experiment to see how it works . |
| 14 | He felt that this could best be done by resorting to myths . |
| 15 | The Greek achievement represented an ideal : special , superior , but still largely remote and mysterious ; Germany 's own new culture was to evolve by coming to terms with it ; and a collective effort was to be the means of realizing that aim . |
| 16 | Over a soundtrack of appropriate chart hits , unidentified teenagers talked about coming to terms with their own sexuality . |
| 17 | In the absence of the UCR 's 85 deputies , the government was still accused of resorting to bribes and political favours to guarantee the support of all 119 of its own deputies , when securing the passage through the lower chamber of the Congress on Sept. 24 of reforms to the hydrocarbons law . |
| 18 | It has also been inconveniently revealed that some Muslim fighters have being doing to Croats what the Croats stand accused of doing to Muslims . |
| 19 | And then if it if if we have it down in reception for a bit , er and it works and does n't look like falling to bits , the we could consider taking it along to the Newark Show as well . |
| 20 | Donors , they say , will recoil from giving to institutions which turn around and sell those works . |
| 21 | The aim of this research is to examine the strategies which prisoners and their families adopt in coming to terms with custody and its various social consequences . |
| 22 | Others more recently walked from Hailing to Brands Hatch to watch the racing , and many would walk out to Harvel or Luddesdown for the evening 's drink . |
| 23 | Even if parents succeed in coming to terms with letting their children go , their best efforts are likely to be undermined by the ‘ dirty washing ’ gambit , or proprietorial claims to ‘ my room ’ which the child will not relinquish . |
| 24 | Now they were all busily employed in setting to rights the big front saloon — a difficult task , for all its furniture was large and heavy and the carpets had not seen even a brush for years and years . |
| 25 | These strategies for grappling with the explanation of most liberal democracies ' stability do little to reduce the problems that Marxist theorists confront in coming to terms with an enduring political alternative to state socialism , and one which most Western Marxists seem to find preferable to the Stalinist forms of state socialism . |
| 26 | Some teachers told the evaluators that they did not feel justified in talking to pupils about the girls and science problem , and gave the impression that they felt to do so would be tantamount to propaganda . |
| 27 | ‘ Perceptual learning , then , consists of responding to variables of the physical stimulation not previously responded to ’ ( Gibson and Gibson 1955 , p. 34 ) . |
| 28 | He investigates by going to places , tackling people , often but not always by shooting or slugging them , and often but not obligatorily so by going to bed with them . |
| 29 | While the sinusoidal responses of the circuits of figures 10.11(a) and ( b ) are represented by equation ( 10.40 ) with , and , respectively , their behaviour is better appreciated by returning to fundamentals . |
| 30 | I suggest that the answer to this can be found by looking to theories of the family and to legal structures . |