Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the 1930s , however , it was the Conservatives who capitalized most effectively on the larger consequences of the Wall Street Crash , using them not only to bring down a Labour Government and introduce tariffs aimed at imperial consolidation , but also to promote among the masses the spirit of patriotic self-congratulation so eloquently projected by Stanley Baldwin : |
| 2 | No-one has been using them long enough to know . |
| 3 | That means helping them not only to make any additional or different arrangements to what is ‘ normally available for all ’ to meet the needs of particular children , but also to review and develop the general curriculum , so that ‘ what is normally available for all ’ can itself be gradually transformed to provide better learning opportunities for all children in the future . |
| 4 | ‘ And will she be bringing them down here to stay do you think ? ’ |
| 5 | The Performing Right Society is currently circulating all orchestras and bands in the country with a directive instructing them no longer to submit notification of all live performances . |
| 6 | I saw now she was softening me up just to ask me a favour . |
| 7 | She let the dress fall , pushing him away gently to slip out of tiny white satin briefs . |
| 8 | He is also writing to John McGregor , the Education Secretary , urging him not only to abandon the idea of additional CTCs but to hand over those in the pipeline to local authorities . |
| 9 | Whether Darrel McHargue would have won on Commanche Run is irrelevant , for this was vintage Lester Piggott — the jockey completely at one with his horse , pushing it just enough to achieve maximum effort but always keeping it balanced , willing and galloping straight for the line . |
| 10 | This emotion which , even as I planned to drive to Prague , while admitting only to liking you well enough to want to ease any problems that might arise , made me instruct Lubor … ’ |
| 11 | Genet reinscribes himself within the violent hierarchies of his oppression , installing himself there relentlessly to invert and pervert them . |
| 12 | Therefore I am entreating you most earnestly to send me those men you aught to send , well armed , as soon as possible as we are going to assemble beside Colrane and the general is to come shortly to make a muster there … [ to fight the Irish rebels ] . |
| 13 | Overwhelmed by her publicity , Amaranth finished her breakfast , and set out for the Grand and Harvey , doing her very best to subdue a worm of doubt . |
| 14 | Great practical achievements jostle with the expected financial and administrative problems but throughout it is a story of people doing their very best to improve the health and welfare of animals of all shapes and sizes and in all circumstances . |
| 15 | Certainly so far as we are concerned we would completely recognise your position and we are in fact , since your position is shared by several other experts in their respective fields who have been good enough to assist us in this venture , doing our very best to see that the names of those who are taking part in the policy study groups do not become public property . |
| 16 | We recognise that those who live and work in the vicinity of our plants have the right to know about our activities and we are doing our very best to provide them with the information they require . |
| 17 | He waited two minutes to focus his thoughts , threw back the duvet — its stale scent reminding him yet again to visit the launderette soon — and staggered into the bathroom . |
| 18 | I 'm taking you somewhere else to deal with you . ’ |
| 19 | I 'm not taking you up there to vomit in the Land Rover . ’ |
| 20 | In the Sonnet just quoted , Britten breaks off the rhythm only near the end , with a few sustained chords , before taking it up again to come to a strong conclusion . |
| 21 | ‘ Giles Hawick is taking it seriously enough to have reported her as a missing person , ’ he said tightly . |
| 22 | As quick as a flash , Mildred pulled out a lasso of rope which she had hidden in a drawer and slipped it over the astonished girl 's head and shoulders , yanking it tightly enough to bind her arms to her sides . |
| 23 | Tie in the new shoots on climbing roses , bending them over horizontally to encourage flowering side shoots . |
| 24 | You know it seemed to be that we had a working rule that had functioned reasonably well over the years and all of a sudden he was tearing up various paragraphs that did n't suit him , and altering bits you know and changing them round just to suit the company , and all to our disadvantage . |
| 25 | It is not putting it too strongly to say that marriage is in crisis not only in the UK , but throughout the Western world . |
| 26 | They 're not giving the talk aimed at telling you how best to invest your money . |
| 27 | The track then descends to join the scenic drive , leaving it almost immediately to follow a path through the forest to a hill overlooking the Glennasheevar road . |
| 28 | It makes me mad to think Big Business is slowly polishing me off so's to increase its profit margins on pesticide . ’ |
| 29 | Under Clifford , Palmer bided his time , keeping to himself his misgivings about the governor 's achievements in centralization , and exerting himself openly only to oppose Clifford 's proposal that lawyers should be allowed to plead in the provincial courts , thereby unacceptably diluting what had been under Lugard the Resident 's almost unrestricted jurisdiction over them . |