Example sentences of "to [pron] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man finally stood up and went over to them imploring them to be quiet . |
| 2 | English winegrowers are about to harvest a record crop of grapes — but it could lead to them facing new restrictions on production in the future . |
| 3 | However they do acknowledge that many children can be more confident and more assertive than others , but that this is due to them receiving unconditional love . |
| 4 | Former employees of Maxwell companies say they 're hoping the MPs new initiative could lead to them receiving some compensation . |
| 5 | The people of the tribe or village agree to them participating in their lives to some extent but there is no pretence that the lady from America has actually become a Polynesian native . |
| 6 | Listening to them complaining about the usual stuff ! |
| 7 | There is also now ample research to show that children whose parents listen to them reading at home tend to read better and to enjoy reading more than other children ( Topping and Wolfendale , 1985 ; see also Sheila Wolfendale 's Primary Schools and Special Needs , in the present series ) . |
| 8 | And due to them taking a lot of the trees do you see , from there , and opened the wind in do you see . |
| 9 | Before I approach BIFU with a view to them taking this up for bank staff ( and others ) in general , I thought it would be good for staff morale and also for our members if we adopted a practice which was , after all , in use in 2,550 BC . |
| 10 | The problems connected with these are inseparable , because of the variety of local conditions , which led to them taking place at different times in various parts of the kingdom . |
| 11 | But what is more important than anything else is that they should not be treated as packages and removed from one place to another and back again because the grown-ups are involved in a dispute and have overlooked that children have rights , and that children 's rights are to remain somewhere until after calm and sensible consideration and a decision by a court that the particular place in which they are living is changed by the decision of the court to them living somewhere else . |
| 12 | The Royalists ( Chetniks ) under Mihailovitch had played a major part in anti-German resistance through much of the war , although increasingly they had been in direct conflict with Tito 's partisans , who saw them as the main enemy in establishing a Communist post-war Yugoslavia , and this had also led to them acting on occasion in concert with German forces . |
| 13 | And and that eventually led on to them contacting other interested groups in the area erm like some lawyers from a legal action group , and er other other groups who meet together for whatever purpose in the area , and and setting up Free Legal and Welfare Rights , which was a a formal advice session run on a Thursday night . |
| 14 | While no one must know the extent to which she had been alarmed , she had no objection to them knowing the cause . |
| 15 | Everlast has made much in recent interviews of HOP 's lack of meaning — they 're just regular guys who enjoy a few bevvies and like to get laid , they do n't pretend otherwise , and no-one should come to them expecting anything else . |
| 16 | For the drift of the argument was essentially that men did not assume leadership , but that it was granted to them according to criteria which took merit and experience , as well as birth and social standing , into consideration . |
| 17 | As far as personnel are concerned , every attempt will be made to refer to them according to skills , professions or areas of activity ( e.g. audio-visual technicians , media producers , design consultants ) , and normally the expression " educational technologist " will imply someone consciously identifying himself with the theory and methodology of the movement . |
| 18 | Servitors hurried to them bearing great foaming stone steins — one red , one black — to drink in one draught , then smash together into shards . |
| 19 | In Jacobs v Wessex Regional Health Authority [ 1984 ] CLY 2618 the respondents were ordered to pay the costs in any event where the plaintiff 's solicitors had written letters to them referring to the reasonableness of their request for discovery , the relevant authorities and the saving in public expense from voluntary discovery to a legally aided plaintiff . |
| 20 | It was all down to them thinking , oh , Glen 's at art school , perhaps he can get it done for us . |
| 21 | It is only when one has haunted the markets of France and the food shops in the country towns and villages , watched the housewives doing their shopping , listened to them discussing their purchases at the pâtisseries and the charcuteries that one realizes how much less they are tied to their kitchens than we had always been led to suppose . |
| 22 | In contrast to Mallet and Naville , they do not appear to believe that there is any fundamental conflict of interests between capital and labour which would lead to them expressing opposing preferences with regard to the taking up of the job design principles they advocate . |
| 23 | If on the other hand it was the morning fire of the returning verderers it would be possible for Hugh to stumble back to them pretending he had failed to recapture his prisoner . |
| 24 | The county council has since planted trees on that piece of land which has stopped gipsies from camping there but led to them using the verge instead . |
| 25 | ‘ We regret that the Department has encouraged parents to expect schools to report to them using these measurements so prematurely . |
| 26 | So all they 're asking really as you 're the landlords , do you have any objection to them building a new er mower store ? |
| 27 | When Jill Froggatt heard about about Sarejevo Child Lifeline she wrote to them offering to help . |
| 28 | What what I did say that Halam had already objected to them going down Station Lane at Edingley which we did . |
| 29 | He has also earned the respect of the players who know that Nigel can hold the key to them returning to the side quickly . |
| 30 | I can not find any reference to them having bred in captivity , except one paragraph , which says ‘ they may be induced to spawn by frequent water changes , which would represent the onset of the rainy season when their breeding takes place . ’ |