VV = versatile verb. In other words: the verb in question can be followed by a variety of prepositions, whichever best describes the action that follows. This is particularly true of any verb that suggests motion, such as walk, run , crawl , creep, inch, hide, etc.
“China alone, by burning its dirty coal, and making polluting refrigerators, could torpedo everybody else’s efforts to stop the build-up of atmospheric carbon and damage to the ozone layer.” (The Economist)
The critic damned the author’s newbookwith faint praise.
She was damning the politicians without knowing the facts.
“The system as it stands conspires against the mothers among the poor: they are damned, if they stay, as parasites; they are damned, if they go to work, for neglecting their children.” (Pierre Berton, The Smug Minority)
“The average Amrican household is in more dangerfrom chemical germ-killers than from germs.” ( Dr. Paul Brand and Philip Yancey, Fear fully and Wonderfully Made)
There’s always dangerin taking your enemy too lightly.
“Vance Packard believes . . that the excessive concentration of wealth among a cadre of megamillionaires . . is dangerousto the good health of capitalism.” (John Elson, Time mag.)
“Carved jade pieces dating from (i.e. having their origin in) China’s new stone age (3000 B.C.) . . are so fine as to require the use of a magnifying glass to be seen properly.” (The Economist mag.)
“It was Dionysius who invented the method of dating (i.e. setting the date) we still use in the West, that is from the birth of Christ.” (Paul Johnson, A History of Christianity)
This fossildates back to (i.e. originated in) the Pre- Cambrian period.
“China alone, by burning its dirty coal, and making polluting refrigerators, could torpedo everybody else’s efforts to stop the build-up of atmospheric carbon and damage to the ozone layer.” (The Economist)
The critic damned the author’s newbookwith faint praise.
She was damning the politicians without knowing the facts.
“The system as it stands conspires against the mothers among the poor: they are damned, if they stay, as parasites; they are damned, if they go to work, for neglecting their children.” (Pierre Berton, The Smug Minority)
“The average Amrican household is in more dangerfrom chemical germ-killers than from germs.” ( Dr. Paul Brand and Philip Yancey, Fear fully and Wonderfully Made)
There’s always dangerin taking your enemy too lightly.
“Vance Packard believes . . that the excessive concentration of wealth among a cadre of megamillionaires . . is dangerousto the good health of capitalism.” (John Elson, Time mag.)
“Carved jade pieces dating from (i.e. having their origin in) China’s new stone age (3000 B.C.) . . are so fine as to require the use of a magnifying glass to be seen properly.” (The Economist mag.)
“It was Dionysius who invented the method of dating (i.e. setting the date) we still use in the West, that is from the birth of Christ.” (Paul Johnson, A History of Christianity)
This fossildates back to (i.e. originated in) the Pre- Cambrian period.