Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] a [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This existing history of ‘ miraculous ’ cures is just a hint of what may be available to the human mind struggling to find a way to greater self-help in coping with ill health and adversity , if only the vitally necessary ‘ faith ’ were more easily grasped and held on to . |
| 2 | In some cases this only extends to personal or physical independence , but for many people ageing represents a threat to their independence in the much wider sense of losing control over how they wish to live their lives . |
| 3 | He remembered wanting to write a farewell to Piper . |
| 4 | There needs to be a facility whereby one is automatically informed that the entry at which one is looking has a cross-reference to it in another part of the dictionary , and whereby one is immediately given a display of this cross reference ( or all of them , if there are several ) if one wants to check it . |
| 5 | It 's usually the parents not wanting to repeat a joke to the daughters |
| 6 | The University of Strathclyde is seeking to appoint a successor to Professor Sir Graham Hills , who retires from the office of Principal and Vice-Chancellor in 30 September 1991 . |
| 7 | The Bulgarians sombrely suggest that she is a dead mother looking for her own baby , while the Spanish say she is the GHOST of an aunt or grandmother , looking to make a gift to her descendants . |
| 8 | The Arsenal manager , facing up to the worst sequence of League defeats at Highbury for 16 years , is refusing to become a hostage to the reputations of what he calls ‘ name players ’ . |
| 9 | Moreover , by November 1983 American soldiers had gone into action in the Middle East , as the major element in a United Nations force attempting to open a way to peace in the Lebanon , long battered by civil war ; and in the tiny Caribbean island of Grenada , where , following a coup within the island 's Marxist-dominated government , the Reagan Administration — fearful of Cuban activities — had sent in the Marines , an action condemned by the United Nations . |
| 10 | He also bought a couple of helicopters for transport when he was attempting to win a seat to the Nigerian senate — in the days when Nigeria still had elections . |
| 11 | Apple Computer , the Cinderella company that has risen from the backyard to a worldwide name in six years , is going to give a computer to every public and private school in the state — that 's about 10 000 computers with a retail value of almost $20 million . |
| 12 | And he was going to give a rocket to Show-Off , whose performance on the publicity front had been absolutely dismal . |
| 13 | ‘ And who 's going to put a stop to it ? |
| 14 | Now he does not tell her that he is going to put a knife to that child 's throat and burn his body to ashes . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm going to send a message to Anthony . |
| 16 | And I 'm , I 'm faxing erm I 'm sorry , I 'm not gon na fax it , I 'm just going to send a letter to national office about The Savoy in First Leisure . |
| 17 | ‘ I am going to describe a girl to you . |
| 18 | I was not even going to get a lift to Thurso out of it . |
| 19 | Billy Meredith , the ‘ Prince of Dribblers ’ and the club captain , was suspended for a season for attempting to offer a bribe to an Aston Villa player . |
| 20 | Mrs Cutforth had been the wife of one of their most devout followers and they were not going to approve a marriage to this worldlywise womaniser and scoundrel , however financially well endowed he might be . |
| 21 | Did Mr Oakley mean he was going to have a room to himself ? |
| 22 | internal business shuttles but a lot of them are long haul passengers who could n't get a direct flight to their nearest regional airport and with the nineteen ninety three directive liberalising the E C erm or European Union Airways , more and more passengers from the North and the Midlands are going to take a shuttle to Europe not to Heathrow , they are going to fly from Ringway or East Middlesbrough t to Europe and catch a long haul from Charles De Gaulle or Frankfurt and indeed Amsterdam which you probably know is now advertising itself as Britain 's third airport . |
| 23 | That 's obviously going to make a difference to you , ’ he commented : ‘ Well , it 's marvellous to have a lot of support ’ . |
| 24 | And I 'm going to make a suggestion to my Noble friend Lord he has heard all the erm views which are critical of the Government 's approach and I would not have thought that he had much hope in the division lobby as quite frankly . |
| 25 | Q.Ts. wishing to attend a course to which they are not deemed to be attached may also attend on a daily basis at £2.50 per session . |
| 26 | ‘ And how did they get the car across here ? ’ asked the Substitute , slowing to put a flame to a freshly filled pipe . |
| 27 | Clearly , further education is now well represented within the Welsh Office and the central authority in Wales is beginning to give a lead to its future development . |
| 28 | The man who is more at home on the classical stage is getting to pay a tribute to his idol at the Ulster Hall . |
| 29 | Kate was beginning to mean a lot to him . |
| 30 | Anyone wishing to make a donation to the team 's effort should make cheques payable to MNDA ( Merseyside ) at the following address : . |