Example sentences of "of [v-ing] [pers pn] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Imperials both , they did not follow the local custom of farming him out to a neighbour . |
| 2 | This , however , is not the thinking — and it may be presumptuous — that moved BBC2 to hit us between the frontal lobes with Jonathan Miller 's states of mind ( 20 February ) , a series that will march on for 15 weeks in the cause of bringing us up to date with what is happening in psychology . |
| 3 | Thus it is a general policy to ensure that mineral working is carried on ‘ with proper regard for the appearance and other amenities of the area ’ , and that when the working is finished the land should ( wherever practicable ) not be left derelict but ‘ restored or otherwise treated with a view of bringing it back to some form of beneficial use ’ . |
| 4 | Planting consists merely of tossing them on to the surface of the water . |
| 5 | It is now fairly certain that the Australia antigen represents part of the virus responsible for type B hepatitis and its discovery has made it easier to determine the modes of transmission and the presence of a ‘ carrier ’ state , in which the infected person may suffer no ill health from his disease but is still capable of passing it on to others . |
| 6 | It was just that erm the other varieties around were competing too heavily against it so they thought what 's the point of passing it on to the children . |
| 7 | ‘ Your absence meant that I had her all to myself at breakfast — with the additional pleasure of escorting her personally to school . ’ |
| 8 | Yeah well we 've got a little antique box a jewellery box and it 's embossed the pattern round it , and the pattern round it is a boar hunt and it 's beautiful , there 's a little boar galloping his heart out with horsemen after him with spears and he 's all the way round the box and I thought of adding him on to the copper kettle you know as engraved all round the outside . |
| 9 | Spartak defender Victor Onopko smacked Rushie while in the penalty box , but instead of pointing it out to the referee and then playing it by the book , we had David Burrows tearing into an absolutely scandalous tackle and the tone was set . |
| 10 | Was there no thought of sending him back to his father ? ’ |
| 11 | But I do know that when times were bad , the people in the dale had to use the wool off the backs of the sheep themselves instead of sending it away to the wool merchants of Bradford after shearing . |
| 12 | However , when the company was considering the service and repair of machinery and was thinking of sending it abroad to Scandanavia , it was willing to listen and to ensure that the work was carried out in this country . |
| 13 | Henry sent envoy after envoy to Richard in the hope of calling him back to his side , but not even when he used an ambassador as distinguished as the Archbishop of Canterbury was his son to be persuaded . |
| 14 | Was this his way of cutting her down to size ? |
| 15 | The Fanatics are the real weapon , the Mob is just a means of deploying them close to the enemy lines . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , she was both surprised and touched when , with an obvious effort , he said that he would be in London at the weekend and wondered if he might have the pleasure of taking her out to lunch . |
| 17 | Finishing her coffee , she collected some leaflets from the hall table , and , with the intention of taking them up to her room to read , returned to the lounge to say goodnight — a plan instantly foiled by Feargal 's mother , who seemed to have shed her vagueness , along with her daughter , who had disappeared , and patted the seat beside her in silent invitation . |
| 18 | The other most common fault at this stage is for the knitter to put all the needles for the second side into UWP , instead of taking them back to B position with the transfer tool . |
| 19 | Instead of taking him straight to hospital , the gatekeeper has him brought up here . |
| 20 | And then I 'd have the joy of taking it up to Uncle Jonathan to get a new signature and of course he 'd know that something had gone wrong and then he 'd |
| 21 | Alexi Sayle says it will be a chance to ride your bike properly instead of taking it down to the chinese takeaway … |
| 22 | Instead of taking it out to the back and throwing it in the bin . |
| 23 | Many schools were established by communities on a self-help basis , with the intention of handing them over to the government . |
| 24 | He was unprepared for the pain the room gave him , the fierce memory of the last time he had been here , when only that impulse of chivalry , or folly , had prevented him from taking her , as he could have done , from making her his own instead of handing her over to whoever had got her now . |
| 25 | Surrogacy is an arrangement whereby a woman carries a child with the intention of handing it over to another woman after its birth . |
| 26 | They all go in the bin because we have abandoned the process that we adopted some years ago of posting them back to the county officials and the councillors because that was not having any effect . |
| 27 | They 're in the process of putting it up to two . |
| 28 | As regards yeomen the statistics serve chiefly to emphasise the difficulty of pinning them down to a precise definition . |
| 29 | On the other hand , Siward could not quite conceal his moment of stillness when Cormac of Dunkeld , bustling up , had drawn forward the boy standing beside him and said , ‘ And now , my lord Siward , may I have the pleasure of introducing you again to your nephew . |
| 30 | It appears from Jean Piaget 's child psychology that perception has been inseparable from simulation right from the start , and that instead of learning to project my inwardness on to other persons I had to unlearn the habit of projecting it on to the rising sun or a bouncing ball . |