Example sentences of "[v-ing] to [pers pn] [prep] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anxious readers of the Daily Telegraph have been writing to me in their thousands to ask : what happens to these celebrities in the event of a hung parliament ? |
| 2 | WALL AFTER WALL of raging water rose up and thundered on to the strange craft intent on destroying it and the frail humans clinging to it for their lives . |
| 3 | calling to him in their stone language |
| 4 | However , his young family is very important to him , and he had reservations about being a selector because players might be inhibited from coming to him with their problems . |
| 5 | It is more important to study the structural relationships maintained by bureaucrats , and the potential power coming to them from their control over much of the information required for the administration of a modern state . |
| 6 | In these new communities Christians have developed their own way of listening to the Word and responding to it from their own situation . |
| 7 | The same increasing central control and rationalization can be seen also in the introduction in 1720 of a regular tariff for the purchase of commissions ; in the 1750s of the custom of numbering regiments rather than referring to them by their colonel 's name ; and in 1792 of a common system of drill , based on that of Prussia , for the whole army . |