Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] [adv] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the early 1970s , Spencer Stuart himself considered selling out to a general consulting business . |
| 2 | Rachel sank shaking on to the white sofa and buried her hot face in her hands . |
| 3 | The lesson , in my view is clear : neither to stand still and simply change leader ; nor , certainly , to go lurching back to the early 1980s , but to continue and intensify the process of change . |
| 4 | A stray , dingy orange kitten came yowling up to the back door one night . |
| 5 | As the sun rose higher , shortening the shadows and drawing the dew from the grass , most of the rabbits came wandering back to the sun-flecked shade among the cow-parsley along the edge of the ditch . |
| 6 | All fords of the Esk , including Kirkandrews , were guarded on the English side by Graham peel-towers ; and though these would not be strong enough to hold up three thousand from crossing for long they could send warning back to the English authorities if so inclined . |
| 7 | I put going down to the English Centre and using the computer |
| 8 | The highwayman came riding up to the old inn door . |
| 9 | The recognition that Marvell can be seen responding idealistically to the new age , and partisanly aligning his poetry with Commonwealth and Protectorate aspirations is a consequence of admitting the enthusiasm many during the mid-seventeenth century felt for revolutionary events which would , they believed , bring a new order . |
| 10 | So , whilst this definition obviously includes jetting off to an exotic resort with a fortnight 's stay in a hotel , the definition also catches the hotel which offers an inclusive theatre weekend — one price covering the stay in the hotel and tickets for a show . |
| 11 | I CAN NOT remember looking forward to a Tory conference with such relish . |
| 12 | he just do n't like going down to the deep end |
| 13 | I 've got out of the way of , I 've often said to Dinda , you know , I would n't mind going back to an open fire in the winter . |
| 14 | ‘ I could try going back to the Steering Committee ’ he said ‘ and simply tell them what 's happened . |
| 15 | ‘ Very good ! and oh ! up jumps the bee and goes buzzing over to the other side — to — to Max 's book , and he says to Max , bzz , bzz Mr Max , have you got any flowers for me to eat ? and Max says — ssh , can you hear him … ? ’ |
| 16 | Planning a display does n't mean sticking rigidly to a formal design . |
| 17 | I kept going back to the interesting and varied articles , and I liked the fact that it is neither too career-oriented nor too mumsy . |
| 18 | I feel too tired to sleep so I play some Despot when I get home but my heart 's not in it and the Empire is still in a tattered-looking state after all the earlier disasters and I 'm almost wondering if I should start again but that would mean going back to the fucking dawn of civilisation and the temptation in Despot is always to swap PoV , which people who do n't know the game always think sounds sort of innocent , like some detail , but it is n't : you 're not just swapping point of View , you 're swapping your current Despotic power Level for something less , even if it 's a regional lord or other king or a general or royal relation close to the throne , and it is not to be done lightly because as soon as you renounce the current Despot 's PoV the computer takes over and it 's a smart fucking piece of software . |
| 19 | If you forced someone to live on nuts and lentils they 'd go roaring on to the European Court of Human Rights or something . ’ |
| 20 | The water rose higher but then , just as Old Shallot 's courage began to crumble into blind panic , the barge shuddered to a stop ; both my master and I ran ashore , grateful to fall sobbing on to the snow-soaked bank . |
| 21 | So that really means going on to the Labour resolutions and the Liberal resolutions |
| 22 | Seeing in black life nothing more than an answer to racism means moving on to the ideological circuit which makes us visible in two complementary roles — the problem and the victim . |
| 23 | The Chinese had dyeing down to a fine art as much as 5,000 years ago , and there are herbs grown today whose names record their colouring ability , such as dyer's-greenweed and dyer's-bugloss . |
| 24 | ( It is also remarkable how commonly ideas similar to his have kept re-surfacing up to the present day , often without any apparent awareness on the part of their authors that Schleiermacher had already developed them , or that the subsequent movement of theology was to expose serious inadequacies in them . ) |
| 25 | they have this sort of automatic estimating system with key information just goes shooting out to the amazing so , yeah a wee bit about each one would be helpful |
| 26 | Melodramatic examples , like Peter 's clawing up to F sharp on the phrase " We shall be free " while the chorus chants relentlessly on F natural ( Act Two scene one ) , or the foghorn 's mindless E flat against D on " the tide will turn " in the last scene , hardly need pointing out to the attentive listener . |
| 27 | I begin and it all comes blurting out to a complete stranger . |