Example sentences of "to [v-ing] them [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , the range of skills which actuaries develop nowadays are ideally suited to fitting them for corporate management in general . |
| 2 | erm it does take a lot of effort to move over to meeting them as individual people , and once you 've understood that they are individual people and you get to know their interests and get to know your common humanity , then that 's the point where you want to get on and do something more , but it 's very difficult to recognise the common humanity , and a lot of |
| 3 | Research on diabetes continues in many centres , including Oxford , where research on animals has led to techniques of isolating and purifying the human pancreatic cells that produce insulin with a view to implanting them in diabetic patients and curing the disease . |
| 4 | Having got rid of his shirts in this way , he was reduced to replacing them with crude garments made out of sacking . |
| 5 | Although a minor error in the recitation of the Vedas was looked upon with strong disapproval , passing events were regarded by the Hindus as devoid of real significance and so it is not surprising that no importance was attached to providing them with accurate dates . |
| 6 | I am always fascinated to hear Liberals going on about resources being made available for defence , when they are committed to cutting them by 50 per cent . |
| 7 | You see if the girls were sent to taking them to other work . |
| 8 | To many scholars of the early Anglo-Saxon period the study of artefacts with a view to placing them into dated sequences is archaeology and is accompanied by little or no questioning of the basis of the method . |
| 9 | But , you know , try and develop that , because that is the media sort of block , you know , ‘ okay , well , if we ca n't get round to ringing them before five o'clock let's not bother ’ sort of thing . |
| 10 | David Rosser of Ammanford , Dyfed , carries a small water pistol that he squirts into dogs ' eyes , and also confesses to bombarding them with small pebbles . |
| 11 | Some suggestions were instantly taken up , as in 1925 , when five members asked for shorter carries and the committee agreed to reducing them to 120 yards , and also a later suggestion for setting aside some ground for lessons and practice . |