Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | IT IS unfair to accuse Wet Wet Wet 's Marti Pellow ( right ) of putting fans at risk by urging them to dance during the band 's Edinburgh concert . |
| 32 | Helmut Kohl 's calls to brief Major on the British economy are doubtless answered by a builder screaming at the German Chancellor to speak English , or ordering him to get off the line so they can deal with the other jobs they 've got on the go . |
| 33 | Despite pleas by senior police officers and the Crown Prosecution Service to remand Hagans in custody , the bench granted him bail , ordering him to stay at the Ryecroft Bail Hostel in Gloucester . |
| 34 | So I succeeded in training her to feed on the fist . |
| 35 | Last night Mr Smith wrote to Mr Major urging him to publish through the Commons library the legal advice given by the Government law officers on Labour 's controversial clause 27 , with the apparently contradictory legal advice given to the Foreign Office . |
| 36 | While on Hainan Island , he received a telegram from Beijing urging him to return to the capital . |
| 37 | A range of copper alloys has been found there and evidence suggests that lead was extracted from the copper by causing it to fuse with the silica and alumina in the clay crucible to form a lead-glass . |
| 38 | With a stick some eighteen inches long , you gave the first stick a tap at the point causing it to spring in the air . |
| 39 | ‘ I 'm training it to grow along the kitchen wall , and the flowers already hang over the kitchen 's picture window . |
| 40 | France , the United Kingdom and the USA on Feb. 13 rejected Libya 's response to the unanimous UN Security Council Resolution 731 of Jan. 21 urging it to co-operate in the investigation of the December 1988 bombing of a Pan-Am airliner over Lockerbie , Scotland , and the 1989 bombing of a French airliner over Niger [ see p. 38743 ] . |
| 41 | Now when we were taught sums like that , probably erm they were written down and we had special ways of writing it to distinguish between the two cases four times and then two plus one added together , to give us four times three equals twelve , or , four times two , which is eight , add one , which is nine . |
| 42 | ‘ You 'll be wanting us to stand round the piano singing hymns next , ’ said his mother unfairly , and forestalled his indignant riposte by replacing the receiver . |
| 43 | Move one of the program group boxes off the edge of the screen and scroll bars will appear allowing you to scroll through the full area of the desktop . |
| 44 | It 's much better to be able to have one telephone number of somebody to ring up and say , ‘ Hey , the screen 's gone blank and I do n't know what to do next , ’ and have somebody , initially over the telephone , giving you advice , helping you to get round the problem , or , if necessary , sending round a service engineer quite smartly . |
| 45 | Later , Provenzano flew over a stolen car and circled while the patrolmen on the ground arrested four black men inside , forcing them to lie on the ground to be checked for weapons . |
| 46 | Local taxi drivers claimed last week that public parking on the taxi rank was forcing them to park on the street and causing congestion which was putting lives at risk . |
| 47 | The manager would have had them all in at 8 a.m. , forcing them to try on the latest zipper tops over their Iron Maiden T-shirts , and making them practise slouching around the sales floor trying to look cool in clothes designed to save lives in sub-zero temperatures . |
| 48 | Dorothy L. must be describing them to put over the dramatic picture of the abandoned easel , but I 'll take all that for granted . " |
| 49 | " Look there , " whispered Paul , draping his arms around the shoulders of both American boys and turning them to face across the street . |
| 50 | The North Sea Oil bonanza — money that should have been spent encouraging and harnessing the potential of young people to live in a new , modern world — was instead squandered paying them to stay on the dole and to stay away from schools , colleges and training . |
| 51 | An issue of ordinary shares in the offeror as consideration will permit accepting shareholders to share in future growth ( which may be particularly attractive if the offeror is a high-growth company ) as well as permitting them to participate in the offeror by holding voting shares . |
| 52 | ‘ Taste our pain , ’ hissed Dashwood , gripping Farrell 's chin , forcing him to chew on the strand of flesh . |
| 53 | Mike Atherton , too , came quietly back , and Tim Munton got his first Test cap , DeFreitas 's groin injury forcing him to withdraw from the squad . |
| 54 | Chandos Herald , the Black Prince 's biographer , makes the prince reply to Charles V 's letter citing him to appear before the parlement of Paris by saying , ‘ Lords , by my faith it seems to me that the French think I am dead ; but if God gives me comfort , and I can get up from this bed , I will do them a great deal of harm even now , for God knows that they lack a good case , and they will have real cause to complain of me . ’ |
| 55 | It was this that had precipitated Charley 's act of violence towards Rose , whom he had grabbed as she parked her car , forcing her to drive to the van . |
| 56 | Joining the Foreign Legion in 1914 , and later the French Airforce , Hall became the first to capture a German plane intact , by forcing it to land behind the French lines . |
| 57 | And I , and not only that , I mean , if they 're selling it to help with the poll tax , I mean all that money 's |
| 58 | Persuading them to adhere to the doctrine of the Church of England , to persevere in that good old way ; … for having set up for Primitive Christianity , he counted Popery as well as Puritanism arrant novelty . |
| 59 | Quite possibly the ulterior motive was to convince the EEC states of the virtues of EFTA 's low tariffs , with the end objective of persuading them to return to the conference table to negotiate a multilateral trading agreement that would hold the two parts of Western Europe together . |
| 60 | Darmstadt , Germany-based Software AG is putting its core products , Natural , Adabas and Entire Net-Work , on Sparcs under Solaris 2.1 , expecting them to ship by the end of the first quarter : the software is also now up under UnixWare . |