Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [pron] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 've been slowly starving us to death , ’ they said . |
| 2 | However , although at this stage the inner reaches of PCF life , the practical realities of daily party cultural work , were slowly revealing themselves to Nizan , his intellectual and ideological development was still very much dominated by sectarian rhetoric and abstract , idealised images of a better future destined to arise from the overthrow of capitalism . |
| 3 | They later intervened on his behalf when he was investigated for criminal fraud , thereby opening themselves to allegations of having accepted bribes . |
| 4 | Arnulf achieved his goal , thereby opening himself to charges of duplicity . |
| 5 | Rose shut herself into her office , grimly applying herself to routine . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | After apparently driving it to France , Roche nonetheless assured everyone that the dioxin was safe — up until two weeks ago , when it started offering to retrieve it ‘ if it is not ’ . |
| 8 | Er basically stuffing yourself to excess for two weeks . |
| 9 | And only letting it to friends and I suggest |
| 10 | The mortgage company had acted with forbearance , only taking them to court as a last resort . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | She struggled not to run screaming from the office , seeing the trip ahead , knowing what would happen , that desire , that overpowering excitement flaring up between them in a hotel bedroom somewhere on the other side of the world , dragging her deeper into a relationship that was already tearing her to pieces . |
| 13 | This permits you to design the copper track layout on paper at leisure , changing it around at will before finally committing it to etching . |
| 14 | So just flogging it to death |
| 15 | This is one of the reasons for the reluctance of many ‘ serious ’ Roman Catholic composers to write for the new Liturgy , thus leaving it to others , especially those in the folk tradition . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | On this thought , Catherine put her head in , politely excusing herself to Bruce Davidson , and said that Miss Huntley had finally got here . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Passion is blushing furiously across pop , rapidly turning it to ashes in its shame . |
| 20 | The Levant Company claimed the right to these dues , but both Wyche and Crowe claimed them for the Crown , and Charles I had provided further occasion for dispute between all three parties by formally alienating them to Crowe in 1636 , though the latter , in return for compensating payments by the company , waived his right until his arrival in Constantinople in October 1638 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | This Joseph did by promptly changing it to Laurence . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | This Bobby did , and was cautiously treating himself to oysters at the bar when Minton came in with some sailors and bade him join them . |
| 30 | 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 . |