Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [pers pn] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The figure of Mercy points to the nature of the redemptive process : Later still , Julian of Norwich , whose mystical experience arose out of meditation on the Passion , defined her sense of a dynamic power of divine love working to process the effects of sin as the work of Christ : " and there is in him bleding and praying for us to the Father — and is and shall be as long as it nedith " . |
| 2 | What they really refer to and bring to expression is his meaning for us ; and their significance is to be grasped afresh , not by their simple repetition , but by returning behind them to the history of Jesus ' life and teaching , and to the message of his cross and resurrection . |
| 3 | She is going about her business , while he is writing about her to the world , and we are seeing her through his eyes . |
| 4 | Mr. Back Q.C. , for the appellant , contended that if Mr. Occhi consented to the appellant taking the £6 , he consented to the property in the money passing from him to the appellant and that the appellant had not , therefore , appropriated property belonging to another . |
| 5 | Our motoring culture has a price all too evident to the police investigating car crime , to the victims of road accidents , and the nurses caring for them to the one in seven children suffering from asthma and the environment , as more and more areas of the countryside are carved up to make way for roads . |
| 6 | I have in fact si since seeing this sent her a copy of the paper I put to this meeting , erm , having seen that , because I did n't know that she was waiting for it to the commentary with . |
| 7 | ‘ Miles , your daughter 's spirit is not walking the base , and none of us are going with her to the afterlife . |
| 8 | ‘ He would n't mind going with you to the concert , ’ she said , thinking that she could have phrased that better if she 'd had more notice . |
| 9 | The sides of the crater were made as secure as possible and the hole leading from it to the underground workings was fully exposed and kept clear . |
| 10 | ‘ The Test , ’ he said , pointing past her to the silvery flash of sunlight on water beyond the village . |
| 11 | The man ( if it was a man ) was probably a fairly junior member of the firm ; if only Henry could find a way of getting past him to the people really in the driving seat . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've got to go , ’ he blurted out , skirting past her to the front door . |
| 13 | Probably the Khan will give Nogai some work to do to keep him occupied until we return from Kinsai , but we could just as easily find the whole pack of them travelling with us to the capital . |
| 14 | The front door slammed distantly , the Aston Martin 's tyres scattered the gravel noisily on the drive , and still she stood there , torn inside , unmoving , until Charles came to see if she was coming with them to the hospital to visit Lucy . |
| 15 | ‘ You 're coming with me to the station , ’ said the Station Master . |
| 16 | There was a deathly hush , no sound but the beautiful music rising up and swirling above them to the glittering pointed icicles in the illuminated cavernous roof . |
| 17 | For the period , a remarkable sense of town planning is shown here with the main square , the Malostranské náměstí or Lesser Town Square in the centre and , running from it to the castle , the wide Nerudova Street , and Mostecká , leading to Charles Bridge and Letenská . |
| 18 | He could see Kathleen in front of the treatment table , clutching a stitch-cutter like a lifeline , and as the man lunged at her he threw himself forward and grappled with him , falling with him to the floor . |
| 19 | Imperceptibly Hamilton had switched from talking to her to the girl who was still staring at her . |
| 20 | And there are scenes of great moral effectiveness , as when Ransom , plucking up his courage far the struggle with Weston , recalls that ‘ at that moment , far away on earth … men were at war , and white-faced subalterns and freckled corporals who had but lately begun to shave , stood in horrible gaps or crawled forward in deadly darkness , awakening like him to the preposterous truth that all really depended on their actions . ’ |
| 21 | Kinkel , 55 , had worked under Genscher when the latter was Interior Minister , transferring with him to the Foreign Ministry in 1974 before moving to head the German intelligence service BND in 1979 . |
| 22 | Meanwhile , Intel 's hardware OEMs , already totally paranoid about delays to Pentium , are said to have been threatened with dire consequences , even lawsuits , if they leak any information about Pentium or the systems they 're building around it to the press . |
| 23 | ‘ If I start gassing about it to the local vet , ’ she said , ‘ it 'll get all stale and distorted , and I shall be so bored with it I sha n't be able to talk about it at all . ’ |
| 24 | He stopped in his tracks , gently swaying with her to the music . |