Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [pers pn] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another popular cheat is to quote last year 's rates , only raising them to this year 's the day after the form is posted to us . |
| 2 | Um so erm I did have some I did have some references on this which erm unfortunately I I put to one side and I 've succeeded in losing so erm I did n't get the chance to put them on the handout but erm I 'm just alerting you to that area of debate and that area of enquiry . |
| 3 | A vomitoxin can be absorbed through the skin , causing a soldier to remove his mask to vomit and thus exposing him to other toxic agents , through his respiratory system . |
| 4 | By 1960 , the American space programme had launched a number of ‘ Mercury ’ spacecraft , and the first of their manned spacecrafts was launched in the early part of 1961 , once again with the Russians just beating them to that objective . |
| 5 | 4 ) ‘ My daughter met any other child at playgroup with a resounding thump if they touched ‘ her toy ’ ( because I think her older brother was still treating her to this type of jealousy at home ) . |
| 6 | He was always taking me to one side , telling me what I should and should n't do . |
| 7 | He was always inviting me to little supper parties and so on , and it became so noticeable that other people began to make snide comments . |
| 8 | ‘ People are always comparing us to Bogshed ’ , slurs Carl in the band van after the third encore and the obligatory dressing room conversation with two fully grown men with Baldrick haircuts , plastic carrier bags , tatty combat jackets , thick lensed NHS glasses and lots and lots of badges . |
| 9 | It is well worth covering your design with some glass and then carefully putting it to one side for a while before returning to it later . |
| 10 | The DLP won 116 of the 237 seats open to popular election , thereby entitling it to 33 of the 62 seats awarded on the basis of proportional representation , bringing its total in the 299-member Assembly to 149 , one seat sort of an overall majority . |
| 11 | Even at its simplest your intervention — supports the children in their role-play introduces the idea that you , the teacher , can play a role yourself creates the possibility of formalising their language creates the possibility of introducing some simple work in other curriculum areas ( e.g. counting ) encourages them to think beyond the immediate , maybe introducing simple notions of cause and effect narrative gives you the opportunity to introduce simple signals indicating when you are in and out of role , thereby accustoming them to this strategy for when you use it later in a whole group drama . |
| 12 | He 's just got me mad now telling me to good luck . |
| 13 | He 'd then possibly forgotten these dreams or fantasies and then when the stimulus of feeling something on the back of his neck happened to him whilst asleep , suddenly the fantasy came back , all as a piece as it were , and it occurred to me that your dream about driving off viaducts might be caused by being asleep , having one of these falling experiences , then relating it to previous thoughts you 'd had , you know on the freeway or something , oh my God , how awful it would be if I , if I drove off that bend below , do you know what I mean ? |
| 14 | They just get a kick out of bringing home a project they 've worked on and proudly showing it to other people . ’ |
| 15 | My research , if I can call it that , has involved ( over the same period ) a cyclical process of listening to teachers , tidying up what I think I 've heard into some more-or-less coherent story , and then telling it to other teachers to see if it makes sense to them , and captures in an interesting , plausible and fruitful way something significant of their experience . |
| 16 | My long-suffering owl chauffeur said to me one day while he was yet again driving me to some venue I was going to give a talk at , ‘ You and that bird are costing me a bloody fortune ! ’ |
| 17 | Presumably if the different defences had been split between several Hic Mulier figures the problem ( for us ) would disappear — again alerting us to certain , not necessarily appropriate , interpretative assumptions . |
| 18 | For example , suppose the success of a meme depends critically on how much time people spend in actively transmitting it to other people . |
| 19 | Please do n't think you 're doing your horse a favour in cold weather by shutting his top door , because you 're actually subjecting him to all sorts of health hazards . |
| 20 | There were good lobster grounds just off shore , and most of that summer I kept a lobster creel set , occasionally moving it to fresh grounds . |