Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [pron] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did enjoy our cup of tea together , and thank you for trusting me enough to tell me about your husband 's alcoholism . |
| 2 | Everyone admires her for working so hard , for thrashing herself relentlessly to entertain the troops and keep the fans happy . |
| 3 | ‘ Removing you from her vicinity is the least I can do after bringing you here to betray her . ’ |
| 4 | Typically of experienced teachers recognising the potential weakness of the whole venture ( it will in fact only succeed if the pupils are determined to make it succeed — not something one can often rely on ! ) , precautions were adopted such as warning them beforehand to mark out the route they take , and ( the final card up teacher 's sleeve as pupils start to get killed all over the place ) to come in as narrator saying , ‘ Suddenly , for no apparent reason , the danger passed and the members returned to safety ’ ! |
| 5 | ‘ But it is not fair that your remorse should be turned in the direction of seeking someone else to blame . ’ |
| 6 | But the main line of attack was that Heseltine should ‘ either put up or shut up ’ — with the apparent intention of forcing him either to keep silent or to declare himself before he was ready . |
| 7 | And er they would maybe er devise or make or r find a piece of suitable wood or something to scratch in the garden or in the sand or on a piece of nice soft soil , to make furrows and er imitate maybe what their Dad was doing out in the field and er they had no concept of doing anything else to play really , it was just pretending they were pretending they were grown up and working . |
| 8 | You 'll probably want to talk about it without the embarrassment of having me here to listen . |
| 9 | But I am terrified of taking him home to meet the family and particularly my sister , in case he goes the way of all the others . |
| 10 | On the other hand , it can be argued that real believers are incapable of distancing themselves sufficiently to carry out an objective study of their own ( or perhaps even of someone else 's ) religion . |
| 11 | Though it would be a case of finding someone else to go off with and not just sort of like , I mean we mentioned it years ago . |
| 12 | You do need a mouse to run this program but it is that good it is worth buying one just to play . |
| 13 | Young men may be more concerned with doing it right to start with , rather than with using contraception . |
| 14 | It 's worth having one just to see the expression on your enemy 's face as the Giant jumps up and down on his cherished troops . |
| 15 | ‘ I shall not , ’ said Sally-Anne grandly , ‘ reproach you , Dr Neil , for rescuing me merely to ensure that I shall carry on skivvying for you . |
| 16 | Compared with Mitroff 's earlier paper , there is much more emphasis here on linking stakeholder analysis with research into cognitive schemas , and a greater recognition that there may be problems both in identifying the schemas , often held unconsciously , and in bringing them together to inform the corporate debate about strategy . |
| 17 | Colonel Windsor refilled it , and Tubby took a large swallow before gathering himself together to reply . |
| 18 | I made one in trusting you enough to open up my heart to you about my ex-fiancé . |
| 19 | That may have been one factor in causing her subsequently to bring up the children in the Jewish faith . |
| 20 | At the same time , I would warn Obair * , the same as I would warn anybody setting up a scheme , to make sure that the scheme is properly run , to make sure that the scheme is n't used to take jobs away from either the domestics , the home helps or any other jobs in the health service — make sure that abuse is taken away and I certainly wish them luck in the future and I thank you for inviting me here to speak . |
| 21 | It hurt her to see him like this , resorting to holding her here to get revenge on Steve . |
| 22 | ‘ That 's all , but it was — still is — badly swollen , and they insisted , quite rightly , on sending me here to have another look taken at it . |
| 23 | ‘ We are quite capable of running our own piggy bank , without asking someone else to do it for us . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ You can get more information on the page , without making it hard to take in . ’ |
| 25 | Mark Kozelek thinks about finding someone else to sing his songs , so he can hide all the time . |
| 26 | The necessary conditions for the formation of sand dunes are a wide foreshore exposed at low tide so that the wind blowing over it can dry the sand and set it in motion ; something to trap the sand and cause it to start accumulating ; and plants to colonise the pile of sand and by binding it together to prevent its complete destruction by the wind or high tides . |
| 27 | Our task is to bring back the mass-production element into the house-building industry , which can be done only by enabling it largely to work on its own authority for a prospective demand — by ‘ letting the dog see the rabbit ’ . |
| 28 | Limiting the options of the young , by forcing them either to remain dependent on their families or to join YTP or JTP schemes , was unacceptable . |
| 29 | Could , could that just be underlined perhaps in , by rephrasing it slightly to emphasise that , because I , I think that |
| 30 | ‘ These service industries can provide a better short-term financial return but real sustainable growth must be founded on manufacturing industries which add real value to raw materials by combining them together to form a product for which people are prepared to pay a premium , ’ he added . |