Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [noun sg] [adv] [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've got a ceiling just waiting to be painted . ’ |
| 2 | On 15 October hastening back from Berwick , the king , the earl of Kent , Hugh Despenser the younger , and the rest of the court arrived at Bridlington priory where they spent the night before retreating to Burstwick , in Holderness . |
| 3 | It 's going to remain dry but dull the temperature only rising to seven Celsius forty five Fahrenheit so it will feel chilly in the easterly breeze . |
| 4 | Much of the daylight hours should remain dry but dull the temperature only rising to seven Celsius , forty five Fahrenheit which will feel chilly in the easterly breeze . |
| 5 | The party appointments came after the leadership had authorised a statement formally apologising to the Czechoslovak people for leading the country into its latest crisis , before they were hustled out of the building because the cleaners wanted to go home . |
| 6 | A report to the meeting says that 24 people , living in 14 properties near the plant , had signed a petition strongly objecting to the proposal . |
| 7 | To handle multiple transmission formats , the merged system will use source-adaptive processing — so that the set will handle the signal appropriately according to its type . |
| 8 | ‘ In a largely illiterate society this oral epic singing also had the function roughly corresponding to the modern mass media — it spread the political news , much more slowly but perhaps not less reliably than the modern press , radio and television . ’ |