Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [pers pn] to the " in BNC.
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| 31 | President Mikhail Gorbachev on April 20 issued a decree taking the authorization of demonstrations and other public gatherings in the centre of Moscow out of the jurisdiction of the Moscow city soviet and passing it to the USSR Council of Ministers . |
| 32 | Parliamentary socialism is regarded as elevating the parliamentary means above the socialist end , so precluding socialism and sacrificing it to the struggle for office and government . |
| 33 | The support worker has to create a delicate balance between giving advisers the ‘ answer ’ for a client and directing them to the relevant part of the information system . |
| 34 | In his extremity he put down the punch he could not hold steadily , and began to handle the half-shaped blocks of stone , dragging them forward and turning them to the light . |
| 35 | I nodded and he turned back to mutter something into his talkback before handing me the mike , taking my hand and leading me to the stage . |
| 36 | He sobered instantly , taking her arm and leading her to the wrought-iron balcony . |
| 37 | Mining Awareness ( MA ) set itself three priorities : gathering information and disseminating it to the public ; lobbying for legislative change ; and calling for an independent environmental impact assessment . |
| 38 | To regard the latter as systematically oppressing madness and forcing it to the margins — to literature , or the hospital — is simply to repeat , in reverse , the very structure that is being criticized . |
| 39 | A single simulation is made by generating random numbers from these probability distributions and adding them to the observed geographic coordinates ( defining point , line or area features ) with these random values . |
| 40 | Secret As soon as the first four figures — 1978 are written down , you obtain the final result by subtracting one from the right hand figure and adding it to the front . |
| 41 | The Doctor ran for cover , grabbing the poet 's sleeve and pulling him to the side . |
| 42 | But in some instances research assistants may have been primarily concerned with digging out tables from published sources and presenting them to the writer to work on ; in this case the data are certainly secondary and practically tertiary . |
| 43 | ‘ And I thought I could make mine by designing and making better products , and selling them to the world , ’ said Mark . |
| 44 | The market dealer acquiring the shares and selling them to the company is subject to a special tax regime ( ICTA 1988 , s95 ) . |
| 45 | Two days after Christmas at her home in Banbury two men pushed her through her front door … one of them punching and kicking her to the ground . |
| 46 | They often include a coupler which simulates the use of the pedals by isolating the lowest note being played on the manual and doubling it to the pedal register , using whichever pedal stops have been selected . |
| 47 | Fairfax was looking forward to restoring it to its pristine splendour and stuffing it to the roof with Caroline antiques . |
| 48 | In June too , after an attempt to repel the rebels had failed , and the leaders of the royal force , Sir Humphrey Stafford and William Stafford , had been killed at Sevenoaks , the government had tried to placate the Kentishmen by arresting Crowmer and Say and sending them to the Tower , and when Cade 's men entered London in July , those two were among their earliest victims ( 16 , p.192 ) . |
| 49 | The musical show is on at Guildford Civil Hall on Thursday , April 23rd at 2 p.m. and you could win yourself two free seats by colouring in the Mr. Men picture , filling in the form and sending it to The Junior Editor Club , The Herald , 114–115 West Street , Farnham , GU9 7HL , to arrive by Friday of next week . |
| 50 | Mr Duckett says : ‘ However poor the local infrastructure , with VSAT you can lay in the communications by literally packaging up the dish , putting it on a lorry and sending it to the site . |
| 51 | After this period you will have to apply again by filling in a new claim form AG 1 and sending it to the Agency Benefits Unit ( see address on page 22 ) . |
| 52 | Alejandro was all for putting a bullet through this she-devil 's head and dispatching her to the nearest abattoir . |
| 53 | This job consisted of picking up thirty-six containers from the jetty Where they were being unloaded from HMAV Arakan ( one of the two Army Landing Craft Logistic ) and moving them to the container park . |
| 54 | Six and moving it to the afternoon yes , it 's er a nice question . |
| 55 | After that it is a simple matter of pumping and reeling it to the net . |
| 56 | Mr Richardson said : ‘ His mother tried to bar him from using the telephone but he connected himself to the line by running a piece of wire under the carpet and soldering it to the telephone terminal . ’ |
| 57 | He has accordingly built , in the heart of Islay , the only brewery in the Western Isles , for preventing the evils alluded to , and for gradually weaning off his tenants from a taste for ardent spirits , and accustoming them to the more nourishing and wholesome beverage of ales ; and has , by these means , not only improved the agriculture , but also the morals of the island . |
| 58 | This job involves taking a constant stream of compliments and criticism from staff members within your area and relaying them to the relevant parties . |
| 59 | This year he has a perfect excuse — his wife is expecting their first baby during the time the Three Wise Ladies are picking up from police , local authorities , and others information about weather , congestion , and danger points , and relaying it to the media . |
| 60 | Her dreams were so vivid while the poem shimmered on her desk — signed , sealed , undelivered — that she had to catch herself from grabbing Lucy 's hands , kissing her right out in the street , holding her close at the end of each day , saying , come home , darling ; grabbing her and flinging her to the floor , ripping her clothes off , sinking into her breasts , fucking her like a sheet of flame . |