Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] [pron] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thinking of Rosemary had triggered off memories of that fateful day about a year ago when her brother Sebastian had come seeking her out to say he had just bumped into Rosemary Green — Rosemary Talbot as she now was — in Hazelbury 's high street . |
| 2 | ‘ Right , it 's kitchen fatigues for you when you 're on your feet again , ’ said Joe , ‘ and that 'll include teaching you how to do a fair job of work on spuds . |
| 3 | I mean , I 've been living this guy for three weeks now and Vic starts telling me how to speak ? |
| 4 | said well you do what you did with him and show showing him how to do |
| 5 | I would n't keep lifting them up to see how they were doing , and I 'd be pretty hesitant about pruning them too . |
| 6 | She needed a good diet sheet and daily workouts , Mary Rose decided , and began advising her how to go about it . |
| 7 | ‘ Will you stop telling me how to do my job ? ’ |
| 8 | Hugo Brassard keeps telling me not to give up hope . ’ |
| 9 | Since Frank 's departure , Tom had played cards with us more often and Terry and Bri started teaching me how to play poker . |
| 10 | I have n't got time to start showing you how to do anything . |
| 11 | So it would be highly arrogant of me to start telling them how to do their work . |
| 12 | She kept phoning me up to tell me about Crowded House tickets and that she could n't get any . |
| 13 | 1 Try reading it aloud to work out what the words mean . |
| 14 | Anyone caught visiting the Bookman during these was automatically punished and he kept swapping them around to try and catch people out . |
| 15 | That 's why I kept putting it off to go to the doctor to get help 'cos I thought that , with me having kids , he would automatically ring the social services and tell them . |
| 16 | Then I 'd wonder why people kept telling me not to take it and conclude that they just wanted to keep it all for themselves . |
| 17 | How often do you dump a file on someone 's desk with a Post-it note on it saying ‘ do this ’ and get it back — okay — competently done but with no knowledge how it might have disrupted that person 's other work or even if they liked doing it enough to want to do more ? |
| 18 | James would probably have been content to live quietly for a time but both Mary and Louis were insistent on immediate action and his chief remaining ally in the British Isles , Richard Talbot , Earl of Tyrconnel , Lord Deputy and Commander-in-Chief in Ireland , wrote urging him not to settle into comfortable inactivity in France when Ireland offered a kingdom of his own ‘ plentiful in all things for human life ’ . |
| 19 | In Sheffield the Council got the local School Board to stop supplying boys in Standard VII ( the oldest class in the schools ) with dummy rifles ; the Board also agreed to stop teaching them how to use them . |
| 20 | The fact that on the whole constituencies tended to return MPs on distinct party platforms , even on occasion issuing instructions to those chosen advising them how to act once in Parliament , has led to the conclusion that the electorate played a large part in perpetuating the intensity of party strife at Westminster . |
| 21 | I contemplated telling him where to stuff his stuffed stuff — but drove off instead . |