Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [pron] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 've been slowly starving us to death , ’ they said . |
| 2 | Rose shut herself into her office , grimly applying herself to routine . |
| 3 | Finally Ayatollah Khomeini had reclaimed his mantle as the most radical of the Imams by proclaiming a fatwa against Rushdie in February 1989 , effectively condemning him to death . |
| 4 | Er basically stuffing yourself to excess for two weeks . |
| 5 | The mortgage company had acted with forbearance , only taking them to court as a last resort . |
| 6 | Lucky Langdon , who is not normally a cautious person , believes this is unlikely , given the current opinion poll rating , and that the best bet wold be the Conservatives winning the most seats , but without an overall majority — thus returning them to power as a minority government . |
| 7 | This permits you to design the copper track layout on paper at leisure , changing it around at will before finally committing it to etching . |
| 8 | So just flogging it to death |
| 9 | The Doctor had wanted to run straight back into danger , as was his wont , but she had persuaded him that on this occasion at least , some forethought and preparation would be a better idea than just leaving everything to chance and inspiration , particularly as the former seemed hell bent on giving them a hard time of things . |
| 10 | Drawing the assembly to a close , the Bishop said : ‘ It is good to meet people where they are as Christ did with the woman at the well , gradually leading her to understanding . |
| 11 | There were very few houses in the road at that time ; it was just a lane , leading to nowhere , and Mrs Browning was the first to acknowledge our presence by formally inviting us to tea . |
| 12 | While Branson was negotiating the purchase of his Caribbean island , the living corpse of the Sex Pistols was slowly kicking itself to final , ignominious extinction . |
| 13 | We can work with the class to create a story in which they all have a stake , slowing it down at particular moments , thereby creating strong dramatic tension , deepening understanding and also enabling us to value publicly the contribution of particular children . |
| 14 | I was shaking by the time I got the thing to the Bunker , nearly frightening myself to death with my paranoid imaginings , but I prevailed ; I took the filthy skull there and I cleaned it and stuck a candle in it and I surrounded it with heavy magic , important things , and got back cold and wet to my warm little bed safely . |
| 15 | Masochistically subjecting himself to punishment in a gymnasium , incurring injury by hurling himself from windows or roofs , he achieves final atonement through an Italian hitman 's bullet . |
| 16 | Margaret Jones : ‘ I remember David asked me to get my dressmaker to taper his trousers and before long other members of his form were also getting me to taper their trousers , so I suppose in a way I was almost helping them to rebel against Mr Frampton . ’ |
| 17 | In 1867 he accepted a timely invitation to return to his former employer , and in the reassuring familiarity of his parents ' home in Bockhampton he was able to assess his career , temporarily rededicating himself to architecture while continuing to hope for success as a writer , if not of poetry , of popular novels . |
| 18 | Just recalling the incident , the feel of those capable brown hands roughly dragging her to safety , made her stomach twist , her breasts tense with reaction . |
| 19 | This would reinforce their belief in the need to help the latter group of newspapers rather than simply leaving them to market forces . |
| 20 | Kate 's eyes burned with a fury that was fast reducing her to speechlessness . |
| 21 | But before she could continue , he was brushing past her roughtly , almost causing her to stagger and stumble back down the steps . |
| 22 | It does a thorough job of not only testing each part of the hard disk but it also saves any data on the disk while doing so by reading all usable tracks into memory before reformatting the track and then writing it to disk again in the same place — provided it was usable . |
| 23 | ‘ Can I help ? ’ said a voice behind us , almost scaring me to death . |
| 24 | They shielded the broadcasters from outside pressure — from all directions , not just from the politicians — and they reviewed the broadcasters ' work , explaining , justifying and sometimes excusing it to government and the public . |
| 25 | Prometheus tried to rival a God called Zeus by stealing fire from heaven then giving it to Earth which is similar to Frankenstein 's actions because he stole the secret of life and proposed to give this to humans until it went disastrously wrong . |
| 26 | But what seemed to fall rather short of perfect innocence was a case of ‘ attempting to obtain money by threats of violence ’ where two youths had sent a menacing note to the old lady next door — ‘ Unless you provide £500 in old notes … you will be shot by revolver ’ — thereby reducing her to hysterics . |
| 27 | Your editors have been kind to me , seldom taking me to task — ( or for that matter to lunch ) . |
| 28 | The university 's smart answer has been to withhold their degrees , but a law student is currently taking them to court , claiming violation of his rights . |