Ways of forming imperfectives were especially numerous and often involved, in addition to their imperfective aspectual meaning, some other notion, such as performing the action habitually or repeatedly (iterative), or causing someone else to perform it (causative).
Section 4A makes it an offence to use threatening, abusive or insulting language with the intention of causing someone else harassment, alarm or distress.
Or I should say another faux pas: I've already made one by arriving in trousers, causing someone to run to fetch me a billowing African skirt.
"I can't be the agent of causing someone to go to prison," he said during an appearance at the Washington offices of Public Citizen, a nonprofit government watchdog group.
Either they are popping and causing someone to have a heart attack, or else getting lodged in some toddler's esophagus, causing them to miss the cake and ice cream.
Lord Judge accepted that the statute does not allow infidelity to be a "qualifying trigger" capable, in law, of causing someone to lose self-control but, because all the circumstances at the time of the killing have to be examined.
