Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] [pron] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This could take the form of compensating the victim of the offence or doing something else to assist the victim . |
| 2 | As we shall see later in the chapter , however , there is a potential conflict between using interest rates to control the demand for money and using them also to control the exchange rate . |
| 3 | ‘ Lady Danby , ’ she said , reaching for Theda 's arm and bringing her forward to face the battleaxe , ‘ you will allow me to present Miss Kyte , and she will , I am sure , be delighted to accept your invitation . ’ |
| 4 | The atmosphere was one of people enjoying themselves in their own way and allowing everyone else to do so too . |
| 5 | What 's the point of returning to work and allowing someone else to bring up the child ? |
| 6 | In 1835 de Tocqueville admired ‘ the extreme skill with which the inhabitants of the United States succeed in proposing a common object for the exertions of a great many men and inducing them voluntarily to pursue it . ’ |
| 7 | A Whig tract of 1711 argued that " The Revolution was almost entirely owing to them [ Tories ] " , whilst the Nonconformist Daniel Defoe repeatedly replied to the charge made by High Churchmen in Anne 's reign that the Dissenters had been responsible for the murder of Charles , by reminding them what they " did to his Son " : " if they will go back to 48 , and provoke us to Recriminate , by telling us of Killing the Father ; let us bring them back to 88 , and tell them of Deposing the Son , and sending him Abroad to beg his Bread " . |
| 8 | The goals of its ambulatory care initiative were to improve access — for example , by maximising the hours when clinics were open and linking them closely to back up services in the hospitals , increasing the comprehensiveness of care on offer , improving continuity ( by linking regular attenders to an identified primary care team ) , and making the management of the clinics more autonomous and more accountable . |
| 9 | If he is to continue , he should now be taking different movements and linking them together to form his fighting style — a format of defence and attack that becomes second nature to him . |
| 10 | ABOVE The method of dating using tree-rings ( dendrochronology ) involves taking samples from timbers of different ages , and linking them together to provide an overall dating sequence . |
| 11 | Afterwards viewers sent a deluge of complaints about how boring the show was and asking them never to return to the Hacienda . |
| 12 | It was early still , but , while she had quite enjoyed his company and having someone else to converse with in her own language , an early night seemed quite a good idea . |
| 13 | ‘ People barely had enough food to live on , but thought nothing of bringing him into their homes and feeding him and giving him somewhere to sleep . |
| 14 | Listening to Iago is a double process of decoding : deciphering his utterance in the way that his dupes understand it , and decoding it again to understand how he meant it . |
| 15 | The drafter may be tempted to adopt a 'scissors and paste " approach , drawing individual clauses from a number of precedents and putting them together to form a finished product . |
| 16 | Cold air like rushing water battered at his face , beating in his cheeks and making it hard to breathe . |
| 17 | No passionate declarations about changing for her sake , about chucking it all in and finding something else to do . |
| 18 | A symbiotically mute pair then sectioned each of these into eight translucent oblongs , flouring them and stacking them delicately to sell on to the baklava and bougatsa makers round the corner . |
| 19 | Letting all her breath out on an achingly shaky sigh , and telling herself firmly to pull herself together , that seeing a bride always made her feel weepy and was nothing whatever to do with Feargal , she walked along the landing to stare from the end window . |
| 20 | I suggest wiring them up and trailing them overboard to thaw . |