Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The shaft of the arrow protruding from my back occasionally knocked against something , bringing me to a gasping halt . |
| 2 | Right across the village , men and women stooped over , black forms against a world of white , shovelling great heaps of snow and tumbling them to the ground in frothy white cascades . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | He had unfortunately proceeded to mar them by fastening them to strips of card with paper clips , which had rusted and left their foul trail on the bookmarks . |
| 5 | His steps were slow , moving to the kennels where the lurchers lived , fastening them to their leads , shouting at them as they leapt up at him in excitement . |
| 6 | Except in the case of the Yakuts and the Turks and Mongols of the southern steppes , their economy was largely based upon the use of reindeer — in the first place by hunting wild herds during their seasonal migrations , and later by domesticating them to a greater or lesser extent . |
| 7 | You were cheering them to . ’ |
| 8 | I tried to marry this judgment with the memory of the sturdy young woman I 'd seen joking in the glade ; who had come breezily into The Pightle telling me to water the plants and daring me to a duel of wits with Edward ; who had seemed so certain of me over against his cautious vacillation. fragile was not the first word that would have occurred to me , unless I had overlooked something vital — something which , I remembered , Bob had noted . |
| 9 | The timber steps illustrated have been made from Forest mini sleepers , which look like logs , but have two flat faces allowing them to be placed one on top of the other . |
| 10 | The two-seater training planes — to go into service from 1994 — have night vision equipment allowing them to be used on a battle frontline . |
| 11 | The Management Information Base semantics have been clarified so that MIB I and MIB II extensions , which typically reside at different locations in the MIB tree , can be given private parameters and object associations , allowing them to be recognised by a single Management Information Base browser . |
| 12 | This involves a willingness to acknowledge that co-operation can be difficult and that mistakes will occur , and a commitment to making the solving of problems a priority , rather than allowing them to fester . |
| 13 | If so , Britain would be in the position of forbidding its own manufacturers from making unsafe goods while allowing them to be imported . |
| 14 | Air France gained many improvements to their airline training programme by allowing them to : significantly reduce the duration of the training cycle , reduce the time between hiring the pilot and the point at which he is qualified for jet operations by at least one year , reduce type conversion hours by at least 10% , and make an improvement in the selection of pilots by providing a better assessment of trainee ability for heavy or medium jet aircraft . |
| 15 | Although controversial , and greatly disliked by the judiciary , this is clearly intended to divert petty persistent offenders away from custody by ruling out custodial penalties for such offenders altogether rather than allowing them to ‘ progress up the tariff ’ . |
| 16 | Resits , as opposed to fail grades , may be awarded to students , allowing them to be reassessed without retaking the complete module before the next meeting of the examinations committee . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The care with which they examined and photographed those bushes before allowing them to be removed brought Paviour quivering to the spot . |
| 19 | Silas 's emotional affairs are not your problem , so why are you allowing them to snake about in your mind ? |
| 20 | This allows expectational effects to be incorporated in the consumption , investment and capital flow equations , providing an indication of the importance of such effects in the regulation of the economy , and allowing them to be taken into account in policy design . |
| 21 | A commonly demonstrated feature of the system is the real time manipulation of video windows , allowing them to be re-sized , zoomed , tiled and shrunk using extremely simple control commands . |
| 22 | According to Jensen , the most effective way of disposing of the chemicals is to spray them over the land according to the manufacturer 's directions , allowing them to be broken down by the sun and weather . |
| 23 | They will build special buses with a pneumatic suspension allowing them to be lowered to the ground for the easy loading of wheelchairs . |
| 24 | It 's very , very hard in encouraging them to … |
| 25 | However , encouraging them to the extent that they can be relied upon to keep roses clean is hardly practical . |
| 26 | So perhaps we should be thinking more about political education and perhaps we should be thinking more about encouraging them to be non-conformist in the sense that they are prepared to ask questions , to challenge and not to accept glib answers that teachers give out willy nilly … |
| 27 | I shall mention some of the issues to which the hon. Member for Stamford and Spalding ( Mr. Davies ) referred , although there seemed to be a lack of logic in his remarks because he cheered the Government on while encouraging them to be careful . |
| 28 | The hallway and various passages off it were full of visitors helping pyjama-ed relatives in and out of chairs , plumping cushions for them or fetching magazines from a well-stocked rack , or encouraging them to that last little drop of cocoa from what seemed to be a standard issue purple mug . |
| 29 | After fulling , the cloth was well rinsed and , now reduced from 35″ to 27″ in width , was taken to the tenter ground to be stretched to shape by fastening hooks in the selvedge and attaching them to the tenter frames . |
| 30 | Catalytic converters are poisoned and damaged by leaded petrol ; attaching them to cars forces drivers to run only on unleaded fuel , an added bonus . |