Example sentences of "[v-ing] sure [that] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the evening , after a snack rather than a meal , I went up to the loft and used the telescope to take a distant look at the island , making sure that nothing had happened to it while I rested inside the house . |
| 2 | Chairman 's the person that can sit in with the group of people and is good in terms of receiving information from people and disseminating information and giving it back out again making sure that everybody 's being brought in so he 's a person really not not so much a leader but he will be a person who can keep the group together and can make sure that all the information flows around the group and that everybody 's getting a fair say a fair crack of the whip in terms of what 's going on in terms of orienting towards a task , so everything 's towards a task you need towards a task . |
| 3 | A great deal of effort has been put into making sure that what the examiner requests has been clearly and unambiguously stated . |
| 4 | So we 've got to the situation then where erm we are making sure that nobody is gon na put us in a position whereby they can cause us problems . |
| 5 | Donors have got their money 's worth in the relatively simple transactions of giving aid , and making sure that their own firms got the orders to build the dams . |
| 6 | More liberal constituencies in the party , some of them with close links to Hillary Rodham Clinton , the president 's wife , then spent the last half of 1992 making sure that their claims on the presidency were not forgotten . |
| 7 | Some heads of department simply concentrated on making sure that their departmental contribution was descriptively correct : |
| 8 | But what we 're doing is making sure that ours is gon na be the best there like you know . |
| 9 | The chairman will also have to organize the panel during the interview , making sure that everyone has sufficient time to ask their questions but without allowing the process to get out of hand and overrun . |
| 10 | They are both friendly and helpful and take an interest in their guests itineraries making sure that everyone makes the most of their stay . |
| 11 | Maintaining control over which is the most up-to-date version of the document can be a problem unless there 's centralized organization , logging who 's done what and making sure that everyone 's working on the right version . |
| 12 | And Howard strolls benignly among the guests , squeezing an elbow here , kissing a cheek there , making sure that everyone 's got everything he wants . |
| 13 | An hour that I intend to use making sure that everyone , including your friend Lewis , understands what our relationship is ! |
| 14 | She could hardly concentrate on what he was doing , because she was far too busy concentrating on making sure that her stupid legs did n't crumble under her . |
| 15 | When he bent to the floor and picked up her dress and draped it anyhow over her , though making sure that her breasts , which he had just termed ‘ exquisite ’ , were covered , she knew he was very much off her too . |
| 16 | By deciding upon a resettlement initiative at an early stage , the AHA was therefore making sure that its officers fully took advantage of the climate of growth for mental health services while it lasted . |
| 17 | Much emphasis was put on the importance of identifying the key decision-takers and making sure that they had the right information — much was made of the necessity of their getting a balanced picture on which to take their decisions . |
| 18 | In his school career , Gazzer had given a great deal of time , energy , and thought to getting round various people , to making sure that they did not take out their boredom , frustration or spite on him , the most obvious victim , the smallest and puniest boy in the class . |
| 19 | Here you can do much to protect her interests at a time when she is very vulnerable by making sure that they are first valued by an expert before being advertised , for widows are often ‘ conned ’ into selling their husband 's valuable possessions very cheaply to unscrupulous people , simply because they are feeling too low in spirits to resist any offer to have them removed speedily and without fuss . |
| 20 | It 's not just making sure that the notes harmonise , it 's making sure that they 're attacked in a similar manner . |
| 21 | Paul lay still and silent till the doctor came ; a burly , bearded man who examined him after making sure that they could be left undisturbed . |
| 22 | Their style is to give information to selected journalists — in this case all the royal correspondents in Korea — making sure that they remain unnamed sources . |
| 23 | Now write down two more possible methods making sure that they fit into the criteria of |
| 24 | is , is , in London and we deal with the British Section which is are the particular bits , but the prisoners have to be vatted and looked at and found by the International Secretaires , then they 're passed on to British Section who pass them on to us and a great deal of research goes into making sure that they really are truly prisoners of conscience , that they 've been in prison for some er possibly because of their belief or religion or their race erm and they 've not taken or advocated violence not taken part in or advocated violence and then , then they are full prisoners of conscience erm we maybe allocated them . |
| 25 | Too often , companies locked into collaborations with rivals regard commission projects as means of making sure that they , not their rivals , are ahead . |
| 26 | These papers suggest that the profession has some distance to travel before recognising that an enlightened self interest would have it advertising for complaints and making sure that they were investigated independently . |
| 27 | Everyone was making sure that they were not in flesh contact with any of the furniture , walls or floor . |
| 28 | Snodgrass was discussing with the Gnomes the best route to take and Caspar was making sure that they had packed the maps and Inchbad and Goll the Gorm and Arca Dubh were nodding and smiling and , of course , there was nothing sinister in their smiles — and there was certainly nothing in the least sinister in the way that Goibniu was looking at Fenella , thumbs hooked in his belt , his wide greedy mouth curving into a satisfied grin … |
| 29 | Push the pipes into the fitting making sure that they are properly home . |
| 30 | Finally , place the ladders on the board carefully , making sure that they start and end on squares of the same colour . |