Example sentences of "of [v-ing] you [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We will always look at ways of helping you to do this . |
| 2 | You see , I 've no intention of helping you ruin a man I admire . ’ |
| 3 | Meanwhile , the race is on among the other cosmetic companies to come up with even more original ways of helping you to make the right make-up choices . |
| 4 | So that 's another situation and as we 'll talk about and I hinted at yesterday er the dreaded vote of thanks situation and the the er giving of the gold watch and er and the being a best man at a wedding or even a bride or groom at a wedding er again is a is a way of helping this Aldershot method is a way of helping you to get your thoughts together and put them across effectively . |
| 5 | On the whole , though , relatively short sentences offer the advantage of helping you to keep your writing clear and understandable . |
| 6 | Work Experience is an excellent way of helping you to understand what work is like . |
| 7 | ( Remember that the kind of cooking you do is very much to the point , for if you only cook simple meals you will need far less preparation area than a more ambitious cook — though here again your aspirations may change with experience . ) |
| 8 | Tins also have the disadvantage of allowing you to contaminate the paint with dirty brushes . |
| 9 | Tins also have the disadvantage of allowing you to contaminate the paint with dirty brushes . |
| 10 | ‘ And I 've no intention of allowing you to give me the slip tonight . |
| 11 | This also has the advantage of allowing you to add material which you have remembered but have not written down . |
| 12 | These have the advantage of allowing you time to consider individual rugs , both in the shop and often on a trial basis in your home ; in addition , there is usually a wide and varied selection of rugs from which to choose . |
| 13 | I admit to yielding to the temptation of allowing you to think this house was your father 's , but my thoughts have not all been selfish . |
| 14 | But surely , sitting down working out the legality of it , working out sensible practical things is a much more sensible way of proving you love somebody , and that you 're you 're genuine about it ! |
| 15 | If you have been following a normal varied British pattern of eating you have probably been consuming less dietary fibre than you need for health protection , but it is unlikely that you are deficient in minerals and vitamins . |
| 16 | Look out for functions that benefit you and the type of catering you offer |
| 17 | If they can realise and appreciate the demands made on you by your husband 's incapacity they should reconsider the level of minding you have been doing . |
| 18 | It is wise to remember that the basic requirement of a rod , apart from the obvious ones of enabling you to cast and retrieve , is to act as a shock-absorber for the line . |
| 19 | Notice , too , that your choice between active or passive has the effect of enabling you to move the " actor " and the " acted upon " around in the sentence , most often either to the beginning or to the end ( as in the " Jane Austen " example above ) . |
| 20 | What is the best piece of driving you 've ever seen ? |
| 21 | ( Incidentally , a further supplementary question , " Is it like any other type of writing you know ? |
| 22 | Nice chap and he teaches creative writing in Glasgow , used to be a teacher then a teacher trainer and then I think took early retirement and he does this but made the point that he simply uses it for extra income for pleasure and interest as opposed I suppose to a way of writing you know so |
| 23 | ‘ No , but you have a maddening habit of pretending you do . ’ |
| 24 | If on your first day of testing you see a colour which is the same or darker than the reference colour given in the test , you should go ahead and have intercourse . |
| 25 | It was like the sort of bullying you see in a public school yard carried out by men who are supposed to be professional politicians to put pressure on the weaker ones and the new boys . |
| 26 | it 's got ta be useful because instead of going you know from one sort at one end and going out the other and never being ever seen again it 's going |
| 27 | Just when you are alerted to one con trick , it seems someone else is waiting around the corner with another devious way of getting you to part with your money . |
| 28 | But that but that 's tha that 's defeating the whole object of the exercise of getting you know more foot patrols , because it 's foot patrols that they 're talking about all the time , if you give 'em a car you go back to the you know the fire brigade syndrome when it was zip zip zip |
| 29 | I 've no intention of bleeding you dry . |
| 30 | A few are just plain awkward and play the game of holding you to ransom . |