Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [v-ing] to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Routine river sampling is carried out according to a schedule arranged by the laboratory , standardized as to place and , as far as possible , time . |
| 2 | Furthermore , in many more isolated and smaller settlements a wife may be unable to work regularly owing to a lack of jobs or transport ; therefore the total mortgage that a would-be home buyer can obtain will be based on a multiple of the husband 's income alone . |
| 3 | Group 3 comprised biopsies from patients previously diagnosed as having coeliac disease who admitted not adhering to a gluten free diet . |
| 4 | Or rather , when he should take over according to a scenario worked out when the Ferrasse-Fabre coalition was born . |
| 5 | The eleventh paragraph recommended that the buildings should be laid out according to a plan , and the ‘ very able and magnificent block plan , by M. Crepinet , may furnish valuable hints towards preserving the desired unity ’ , and the twelfth paragraph said that a residence for the Foreign Secretary was not an absolute necessity , and if reception rooms were to be provided they should be available to every minister . |
| 6 | Deputed to get his own disguise , he went off fuming to a wig shop : ‘ And the lady started to go through all kinds of salesmanship to sell me the wig and if I wanted to swim , I did n't want to swim , and I 'm sitting there knowing that this meeting is going to start very soon and I can not — lady , let's get on with it , I do n't give a damn , just give me a wig . ’ |
| 7 | Yes I 'll just end up talking to a secretary whereas something |
| 8 | Words can be split either according to a set of pre-defined rules or from a table of correct hyphenations but in both cases ensure that English English is being used rather than American . |
| 9 | There was no point sitting here yapping to a bunch of fucking prejudiced right-wing bastards . |
| 10 | Stok was sitting there speaking to a telephone that looked like a prop from The Young Mister Edison . |
| 11 | Again , this should reduce direct copying to a minimum . |
| 12 | ‘ I only know that the Meeting Notice was sent out according to a list drawn up by the Prime Minister . ’ |
| 13 | I could n't go home to my mother because the relationship was still very iffy , so I ended up going to a hostel . |