Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [pers pn] to [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I sha n't be making the mistake of attributing it to any charms of mine , either . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's not a question of bringing them to more people — Emporio has never been for the poor — but of morals ; with the Nineties there comes a new thinking about how much it 's right to spend on clothes and I certainly go along with that . ’ |
| 3 | Thus is perpetuated the unanswerable myth whereby all mysteries are explained away by the simple process of ascribing them to some remote and inaccessible ‘ god ’ who created everything . |
| 4 | Equally , the consequences of applying it to any old scrap of paper which any party cared to describe as an ‘ Act of Parliament ’ solely for purpose of denying jurisdiction would be absurd . |
| 5 | He quotes Occam 's razor but never dreams of applying it to most of the controversies he refers to , and , ironically over macroevolution , thinks that some of the recent speculations ‘ must inhibit the penchant for ‘ story-telling ’ and the glib explanation ’ , of the neo-Darwinists . |
| 6 | Warmed by Coleman 's sympathy , El-Jorr made a point of introducing him to all the CIs and ‘ mules ’ who arrived at Eurame on their way back and forth along the pipeline , including him in the conversation as they brewed up endless cups of Lebanese coffee . |
| 7 | We trust the author will hereafter reprint these expensive volumes in such a form as that they may be accessible to naturalists ; and thereby diffuse science , instead of restricting it to those only who are wealthy . ’ |
| 8 | Whatever their differences , could Huy hold himself responsible for sending him to such an end ? |
| 9 | And like half way through it they said ehm , they 've giving somebody the wrong prize money or something , they 've giving somebody fifty pounds , they should off giving it to this other coloured women right , and apparently this women was giving it all wow man yeah man , and all this you , you know they give it to them in the end and then she won the twelve hundred pounds . |
| 10 | My brother and I shared a room for a while but we soon had a partition put in allowing us to each have our separate rooms . |
| 11 | The fact that the First Directive was formally concerned only with restrictions on foreign exchange transactions did not prevent the court , in Brugnoni v. Cassa di Risparmio di Genova e Imperia ( Case 157/85 ) [ 1986 ] E.C.R. 2013 , 2030 , para. 22 , from applying it to any kind of obstacles constituting a ‘ hindrance ’ to the widest liberalisation of those capital movements which the First Directive sought to liberalise in full . |
| 12 | In the following example program segment , AND is used as a bitwise operator to remove the most significant bit of a byte read from a file before writing it to another file . |
| 13 | He patented in 1870 a wheeled ‘ apparatus for affording protection from bullets and other missiles ’ , but did not succeed in selling it to any of Europe 's warring armies . |
| 14 | They had drugged my wine before moving me to that horror-filled garden . |
| 15 | That this ‘ fourth channel ’ was the last available national channel transformed it into a very valuable national resource and , consequently , there has always been some concern lest one make a terrible ‘ mistake ’ in allocating it to some unworthy body or organization . |
| 16 | So you can understand what a sacrifice it is your father is making in sending you to this school . |
| 17 | She had been determined not to give anything of herself away to him , but he had succeeded in antagonising her to such a pitch that she almost could n't help herself . |
| 18 | ‘ Revenge ’ is well on the way to taking us to that point where we want to be , ’ explained the one-time axe-wielding , fire-breathing bassman . |
| 19 | Therefore a study of the types of question is a useful preparation point : Types of Question Question type Explanation ( 1 ) A data recall question requires the pupil to remember facts without putting them to any use , e.g. " When was the Battle of Hastings ? " ( 2 ) A naming question asks the pupil to name something without showing how it relates to the historical situation , e.g. " What are the men in the picture wearing ? " |
| 20 | with a view to introducing it to all contracted providers in nineteen ninety-four , ninety-five . |
| 21 | If a home does not meet the minimum standard , the owner will be able to claim back all the money spent within the first year after purchase on raising it to that level , through , for example , home insulation , up to the amount of stamp duty they paid when they bought the property ( up to the maximum of £1000 ) . |
| 22 | The Coetzer fight is the last of the original three-bout package agreed between Bruno and promoter Mickey Duff , and they are having talks about extending it to another two fights . |
| 23 | ‘ And now , how about introducing me to some of your friends seeing that they 're enjoying the freedom of my house ? ’ |
| 24 | The commission 's role was to ensure that land allocated for development was in fact developed , by channelling it to those who would develop it . |
| 25 | Lawyers acquire a smattering of technical jargon and by using it to each other create the impression that they have a full comprehension of the subject . |
| 26 | ‘ I want to test one set of certainties by opposing them to another . |
| 27 | These three contrasting ways of approaching the same data can be conveniently illustrated by applying them to that contemporary social phenomenon : student unrest . |
| 28 | Ideally , you 'll try to absorb all the information here by applying it to all keys . |
| 29 | He was at times ordered to aid and supervise the royal huntsmen by leading them to those parts of the forest where the game was most plentiful , o supplying them with trained hounds , and seeing that they did not drive the deer out of the forest or continue their hunting longer than their instructions warranted . |
| 30 | He was somehow managing to make her begin to doubt her own words — simply by subjecting her to that look of dark unbelief . |