Example sentences of "in [v-ing] [pers pn] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since it had been a great success when read aloud to ‘ our local club ’ , Tolkien had absolute confidence in submitting it to the publisher of The Hobbit , Stanley Unwin . |
| 2 | Various sorts of logical structure , with branching and loops , will achieve this — in general we see great advantages in presenting them to the user in graphical form . |
| 3 | Angeli , who also was not in court , had committed a fault in selling them to the press last August . |
| 4 | However , there 's no doubt that a usp puts the creative team in a stronger position than not having one , as long as he or she succeeds in selling it to the public . |
| 5 | Such childish poeticizing is reinforced , in directing us to the level of the infant , by the ‘ penny for the Old Guy ’ epigraph , by the dressing up as a scarecrow , and by the nursery rhyme , ‘ Twinkle twinkle little star ’ , which inescapably underlies the line ‘ Under the twinkle of a fading star ’ . |
| 6 | Helen Gardner was aware of the problem , observing that the pursuit of image patterns , or of the ideas in a poem , can be useful to the interpreter , but can not ‘ be more than auxiliary in leading us to the true ‘ meaning' ’ of the work , which is the meaning which enlarges our own imaginative life . ’ |
| 7 | Although I know that my hon. Friend is interested in switching it to the autumn , we have no plans to do that because there are different views about it . |
| 8 | The company 's delays in reporting it to the NRC led the engineers to do so themselves . |
| 9 | The remaining operating staff had to work long hours preparing and implementing an evacuation programme for school children , an exercise in which the trams played their part in getting them to the main line railway stations on the first part of their journey away from London . |
| 10 | And my Will is to be Buried in Linen in a Suit which I shall provide for that purpose And I do hereby order and direct that the Sum of Ten Pounds shall be paid to the person who shall be the last in attending me to the time of my expiring and who shall see me Inclosed and laid in my Coffin in Linen . |
| 11 | First , the bishop had been enthusiastic in inviting him to the new work and had been wide open to the initiative . |
| 12 | The new matrix is symmetric , since both its i , jth and j , ith elements are unity ; moreover , its determinant is -1 , since in moving the jth row to the ith position unc we cross j — i rows ; but the original ith row is now the i + 1th and so in taking it to the jth position we cross j — i — 1 rows . |
| 13 | His sincere and careful counselling was ineffective in introducing them to the life of the church . |
| 14 | Here he may well have acted as a diplomatic go-between in introducing them to the Roman traders , whose imports have been found at their main centre , the great oppidum at Bagendon near Cirencester . |
| 15 | It was not such a great step in reducing him to the laws-giver . |