Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] [pron] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | These arise from a household 's obligation to devote many unpaid hours of work to caring for its dependent members , and from the fact that some households have only one fit person of working age who has to choose between doing this , or going out to earn a living , or driving themselves to exhaustion trying to do both . |
| 3 | Any system which is exhaustively described by Figure 9 would be incapable of repeating nonsense words or reading them aloud or writing them to dictation . |
| 4 | We talk casually of someone drowning in work or drinking themselves to death long before a terminal illness shows itself or their suicidal drive is detected . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Ribbing in the stitches on either side of the cable draws the work in more than allowing it to ladder down , which makes working a sample piece very important . |
| 7 | Enhancements to Gemstone include improved cache functions , which enable temporary objects to be held in memory rather than writing them to disk ; disk clustering , and reduced object identification size . |
| 8 | Two and a half years ago the Home Office introduced the Caution scheme , encouraging police to use their discretion to give some young offenders a warning , rather than sending them to court . |
| 9 | That the girls might be unaware of the camera rather than seducing it to death . |
| 10 | In those days , if you were ill in England , the doctor visited you , rather than expecting you to stagger to the surgery . |
| 11 | It 's not for me to question orders , but I should have thought that running him to earth would be a simple police job . " |
| 12 | But Whitehall should contract out as much as possible of this research to industry itself rather than giving it to government establishments . |
| 13 | It might be very unwise to accost him , to ask him just what he thought he was doing — trespassing and helping himself to food . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | While Jacob was still shaking his head , Nahum said , ‘ I believe I owe you and your gang a debt of thanks for finding Anna and bringing her to safety . |
| 16 | It is easy to make him look personally responsible for setting the process in train and bringing it to fruition . |
| 17 | Somehow you got down here , where you have been since , quietly starving and poisoning yourself to death . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The work consisted of laying out costumes in the appropriate dressing rooms in advance of the required changes , rescuing those from the previous number and returning them to Wardrobe , checking for damage , separating out for laundry . |
| 21 | There was a fine line to walk between protecting him and urging him to self-reliance . |
| 22 | This time I had taken the precaution of tipping off the organizers in advance and swearing them to silence . |
| 23 | Dionne went for the outlaw type , or so she said , then mothered and civilised them until they were unrecognisable , and when her dream of civilised and raunchy equality went out the slammed door , there she was alone again , smoking a little more than usual , drinking a little more than necessary and swearing herself to celibacy until the next sulky brow slouched into view and stole her hopeful heart away . |
| 24 | He could n't tell a woman like Maggie Byrne that thoughts of Sarah were blighting his relationship with his wife , and turning him to celibacy . |
| 25 | Before the tug arrived the lifeboat attempted to refloat the casualty by using a bow line and turning her to starboard , using her own engine and the jammed rudder . |
| 26 | He gave a little start as if recalling himself to reality and said : |
| 27 | Everyone who knew him in those schooldays — men and women alike — speak with affection of him : stories tumble out like clothes spilling out of a split suitcase — Richard peeing out of the train window as the engine roared by the station platform , Richard taking a girl up on to a mountain and scaring her to flight at his howl as a passionate hand landed on one of his more angry boils , Rich , reeking of beer , rolling into school and being sent home . |
| 28 | Suddenly Holden turned his machine-gun on the onlookers and fired , scattering them in all directions and scaring them to death even though he was only firing blanks . |
| 29 | And getting them to work was a constant problem and collecting the fines , and we do actually know about this . |
| 30 | He has the right , which he should exercise to the full , of reading his master 's papers and accompanying him to court . |