Example sentences of "[vb base] [v-ing] to [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Forget talking to your plants … if you want them to look their best try a bit of good old fashioned pampering . |
| 2 | In general , if cells of vertebrate embryos are moved from one part to another of the early embryo they develop according to their new location and not from where they are taken . |
| 3 | Whereas early on cells develop according to their position in the embryo , with time their fate becomes fixed . |
| 4 | Darwin 's theory of evolution incorporates the principle of natural selection , which suggests that animals change according to their surroundings , developing adaptations — over several generations — which enhance their ability to survive in particular habitats . |
| 5 | However , Sartre was no more prepared than Merleau-ponty to return to what he characterized as Marxist organicism , in which the laws of history unfold according to their own autonomous momentum . |
| 6 | die listening to her ! |
| 7 | Such a situation is one which allows other countries to put aside international law and act according to their own judgments . |
| 8 | Hence we do not need to argue that the judiciary are in any sense part of a gigantic conspiracy ; they merely act according to their beliefs which inevitably reflect their class interests . |
| 9 | ‘ You ca n't keep challenging it all the time because otherwise they just stop listening to you . |
| 10 | If I cut according to my cloth and did n't |
| 11 | I do n't like not having enough money and I do n't like not having enough sex and I detest the way the children dress and I detest going to your mother 's every week and I loathe the way you clench your teeth and I loathe the way you never help and I hate the way you never ask but I love you |
| 12 | ‘ Stop lying to me . |
| 13 | Stop talking to him I do n't want him on my tape , it 's a waste . |
| 14 | ‘ Many wives are frightened to ‘ go public ’ in case neighbours stop talking to them . |
| 15 | I recall explaining to my close friends at school , querying why my sister was so distressed , what had happened , but directing them not to tell anybody . |
| 16 | Their policy-making styles vary according to what is optimal for the function concerned . |
| 17 | Single motif procedures vary according to your machine , but I can do a very easy one on my Silver Reed machine by setting the machine to weaving , using an appropriate punchcard and moving the single motif cams in and out to make a big woven moon on a plain background . |
| 18 | It should be stressed that these figures are all approximate and vary according to your personal lifestyle . |
| 19 | Stable furrows , ridges and hillocks provide a range of environmental conditions which plants select according to their needs . |
| 20 | A familiar disjunction : while we hold on to personal musical favourites dating back over twenty-five years because we still enjoy listening to them , the music which brings on the fiercest nostalgia is often a terrible , loathsome noise with which we think we have nothing in common . |
| 21 | ‘ We attract according to our being ’ , is an appropriate axiom relative to the process . |
| 22 | I recall listening to him tell it to visitors when I was a child , and then later , when I was starting out as a footman under his supervision . |
| 23 | By giving through a central fund to which all give according to their means and from which those in need receive , we fulfil our Lord 's precept : Do not let your right hand know what your left is doing . |
| 24 | I envy people who do n't bother to wash up at night and leave stuff all over the place — I really enjoy going to their houses . |
| 25 | Thus I was , albeit subconsciously , prepared for his death , and I recall saying to my mother when she broke the , news one morning that " I thought something like this might happen . " |
| 26 | Both Gareth and Rachel enjoy talking to their visitors and eventually they will leave the management of the farm and dairy to their children and concentrate on showing the visitors how it works . |
| 27 | Cos we just enjoy talking to you so much ! |
| 28 | Even for philosophers , one suspects , it is less the philosophy than these episodes that give meaning to their own lives . |
| 29 | What they are writing about in reality are the ideal standards of their own social group , those that give meaning to their work practice even if they do not always live up to them . |
| 30 | Meditation , yoga , and psychotherapy have all been taken up by Westerners as ways of helping themselves cope , and give meaning to their lives . |