Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [pers pn] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was fun with the children when they were younger , too , telling them stories about life in the countryside , taking them out — ‘ go all over the place with him , yes ’ — and seeing them to bed : ‘ he always give us a piggyback up the stairs to bed . ’ |
| 2 | While Jacob was still shaking his head , Nahum said , ‘ I believe I owe you and your gang a debt of thanks for finding Anna and bringing her to safety . |
| 3 | It is easy to make him look personally responsible for setting the process in train and bringing it to fruition . |
| 4 | This requires cutting the instructions to a bare minimum , so that you are , in effect , just providing them with the seed of an idea , and allowing them to culture it . |
| 5 | A130 neighbours Braintree can do them a favour today by beating the islanders and condemning them to relegation , while improving their own lowly position in their first season at this level . |
| 6 | The work consisted of laying out costumes in the appropriate dressing rooms in advance of the required changes , rescuing those from the previous number and returning them to Wardrobe , checking for damage , separating out for laundry . |
| 7 | There was a fine line to walk between protecting him and urging him to self-reliance . |
| 8 | This time I had taken the precaution of tipping off the organizers in advance and swearing them to silence . |
| 9 | He could n't tell a woman like Maggie Byrne that thoughts of Sarah were blighting his relationship with his wife , and turning him to celibacy . |
| 10 | Before the tug arrived the lifeboat attempted to refloat the casualty by using a bow line and turning her to starboard , using her own engine and the jammed rudder . |
| 11 | Everyone who knew him in those schooldays — men and women alike — speak with affection of him : stories tumble out like clothes spilling out of a split suitcase — Richard peeing out of the train window as the engine roared by the station platform , Richard taking a girl up on to a mountain and scaring her to flight at his howl as a passionate hand landed on one of his more angry boils , Rich , reeking of beer , rolling into school and being sent home . |
| 12 | Suddenly Holden turned his machine-gun on the onlookers and fired , scattering them in all directions and scaring them to death even though he was only firing blanks . |
| 13 | And getting them to work was a constant problem and collecting the fines , and we do actually know about this . |
| 14 | He has the right , which he should exercise to the full , of reading his master 's papers and accompanying him to court . |
| 15 | SunSoft Inc is moving 30 of its software engineers out of its Massachusetts operation and sending them to Sun 's Colorado Springs site where they do R&D , design of high-performance workstations and other special projects . |
| 16 | The courts had a variety of treatment orders available in respect of the children brought before them , including placing children on probation and sending them to attendance or detention centres or to approved schools . |
| 17 | Is it not true that giving 17-year-olds fines does not work and sending them to prison is counterproductive ? |
| 18 | Then , calm restored , they went about the business of confiscating the property of Japanese-Americans and sending them to concentration camps . |
| 19 | Bringing these out in the open and subjecting them to scrutiny and analysis will yield fruitful results . |
| 20 | And asking him to supper was the only way she could do this . |
| 21 | Shop waste is mostly paper ( with some plastic ) and the possibility arises of collecting this waste and converting it to fuel pellets which have a calorific value of about two thirds that of coal . |
| 22 | Surely you are saving these and taking them to FOE , Whitehouse Road . |
| 23 | This has been a fairly gritty chapter , all about beating up baddies , causing them pain and putting them to flight . |
| 24 | It is the argument of this book that many of the reasons for this are organizational , and that a very considerable change in attitudes and practice results from taking up the administrative implications of all aspects of resource-based learning ( audio-visual , print-form and other ) and putting them to hand . |
| 25 | Starke was still talking , taking bits of paper out of the drawers in the desk and showing them to Grout , but Steven was n't looking or listening . |
| 26 | For example , gully erosion can be treated by mechanical means ( e.g. a masonry drop structure with apron ) , cutting back the gully head to stable ground and planting it to grass and/or trees , and following a variety of agronomic measures above the gully to reverse practices which brought about sheet and then gully erosion in the first place . |
| 27 | The kitchen was full of smoke , servants and Sara 's brothers , who had recently returned from a day 's hunting in the mountains and who were getting in everyone 's way by taking their boots off and leaving them to steam before the flames . |
| 28 | Whirlwinds , water spouts , twisting and entangling and spinning us to destruction . |
| 29 | ‘ Never mind that , ’ Zambia said , enclosing Tammuz' hand in hir own and raising it to hir lips . |