Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that they 've chosen to have somebody representing them in objection to the new settlement proposal I think is as strong an indication as you can get that the local people do n't actually support the council on this point . |
| 2 | While policing may involve social control , lawyers ' work is that of translators , taking everyday problems defined by clients and resolving them by reference to the body of legal discourse , a reference which may , of course , involve considerable creative elaboration . |
| 3 | But Adorno assumes that ‘ the process of internalization , to which great music as a self-deliverance from the external world of objects owes its very origin , is not revocable in the concept of musical practice ’ ( ibid : 133 ) , and so he is bound to consider the ‘ functionalism ’ of popular music as regressive , explaining it by reference to social-psychological defects . |
| 4 | nodding his head , bobbing it from side to side , achingly conscious of how stupid he must look , " Yup , looks like wine to me . " |
| 5 | In addition , we will pay the reasonable cost , where necessary , of taking your motor cycle to the nearest suitable repairer and returning it after repair to your address as shown on the schedule . |
| 6 | In addition , we will pay the reasonable cost , where necessary , of taking your caravan to the nearest suitable repairer and returning it after repair to your address as shown on the schedule . |
| 7 | On ( or soon after ) Oswine 's death Oswiu 's nephew Oethelwald , son of Oswald , secured the kingship in Deira ( HE 111 , 23 ) ( see Appendix , Figs 6.2 and 7.1 ) , though whether appointed to this position by Oswiu or acquiring it in opposition to his uncle is unknown . |
| 8 | ’ In the case of motor vehicles those purposes include , not merely the purpose of driving it from place to place but of doing so with the appropriate degree of comfort , ease of handling and pride in the vehicle 's outward and interior appearance . |
| 9 | To learn to juggle , take one ball and practise tossing it from hand to hand in an easy arc . |
| 10 | He says why spend millions pushing them from place to place ? |
| 11 | Every month , Asmar 's secretary would take the Sunboat from Jounieh to Larnaca to collect the payroll from Coleman for distribution within the network , each cell member then signing his cheques and counter-signing them on presentation to a Lebanese bank for payment . |
| 12 | The miners in the colliery retreated before the flood of dark brown slurry which was advancing through the underground roads and filling them from floor to roof . |
| 13 | If things have n't been going well at work and success seems to be passing you by talk to colleague and see what they think of your prospects . |
| 14 | Susan had no clothes on , and the two men were showering her from head to foot — in her eyes , inside her ears , everywhere . |
| 15 | One might ask why this sudden change occurred , and whether there was a change of attitude by Gillray , perhaps even a conversion pushing him from critic to defender of monarchy . |
| 16 | They shared a cigarette , passing it from mouth to mouth . |
| 17 | Anyone else using the mark or one nearly resembling it in relation to the same class or classes infringes the mark . |
| 18 | When you type in a document , saving it from time to time , Word does not destroy the very last version that you saved but renames it as a back-up copy . |
| 19 | It 's the usual imaginative , expensive production , in this case whisking us from London to New York to New Orleans . |
| 20 | A change of position may help to minimise this , such as raising the head or turning them from side to side . |
| 21 | He believes that things are as they seem to Dr Serafin ; that he is putting up proposals which are as sound as his judgement and experience can make them , that he is withdrawing them in deference to Serafin 's objections , and that he will be forced to formulate alternative proposals which can not be known to him yet because they will take their rise from views Serafin has still not expressed . |
| 22 | I just wondered what your response to it was , seeing as er what you 're doing is getting information to which you 're not entitled , and selling it for money to other people . |
| 23 | He ended up by selling it for £500 to Mr Staples , from whom he originally bought the site for the same sum . |
| 24 | Their job , he explained , was to quarter Paris and the surrounding towns collecting scientific and industrial hardware from factories and labs , arranging their dismantling and packaging , then sending them to Bordeaux to be transhipped to Britain . |
| 25 | A matron chaperoned them at all times , trekking them from digs to school , on to the theatre and finally back to their digs at night , the crocodile of children walking slower as the day progressed . |
| 26 | Labour will establish a network of one-stop advice centres providing them with access to high-quality specialist assistance . |
| 27 | Suddenly it takes over — uncontrollably , they lash out and then flee in panic , their ancient memory switching them from Jekyll to Hyde . |
| 28 | Sometimes , particularly where you have a specific audience , the task may be primarily a logistical one — moving them from A to B — and you can solve this by bussing them in . |
| 29 | She folded napkins to look like coronets and gave the crystal glasses a final polish before positioning them in groups to the right of each place . |
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