Example sentences of "[verb] be [v-ing] [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The helicopter I 'd been watching suddenly veered to port and its rotor blades did n't look the same . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's difficult to understand why he might have been moving badly going to the start — perhaps it was the dirt or maybe it was because the heat was so intense . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ It 's difficult to understand why he might have been moving badly going to the start , perhaps it was the dirt or maybe it was the heat . ’ |
| 4 | The second er reason which he gave me , of course I should have thought for myself , he said , but the accountants more accurately represented the human form than did the rats , so that was a clear one to him , but it was the third one that really floored me , when he told me that their staff had been getting really attached to the rats . |
| 5 | Elean : I presume the sexist laws you have been describing also apply to white women in South Africa . |
| 6 | It is also the tip of the iceberg in another sense , for this complex of wage levels and tax rates that we have been examining also leads to another obstacle for those on welfare being able to improve themselves by taking a job , even if one is available . |