Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [prep] [v-ing] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where the Sales Department insists on selling to people we would n't want to touch with a barge pole ! |
| 2 | In the context of the reports that subjects make on going to sleep it is clear that much dreamlike activity goes on which is not associated with the syndrome of EEG , EOG and EMG activity defining REM sleep . |
| 3 | After the meeting was over and the main demonstration had dispersed , some civil rights supporters succeeded in infiltrating to Market Square by a roundabout route . |
| 4 | Over a soundtrack of appropriate chart hits , unidentified teenagers talked about coming to terms with their own sexuality . |
| 5 | ‘ Generally Designers start by going to Art School where they begin doing Basic Design before , later , they specialise in some form of three dimensional design . |
| 6 | When viruses succeed in binding to cell membrane receptors they still have to enter the cell and break up into separated proteins and genetic material before they can replicate . |
| 7 | Even if parents succeed in coming to terms with letting their children go , their best efforts are likely to be undermined by the ‘ dirty washing ’ gambit , or proprietorial claims to ‘ my room ’ which the child will not relinquish . |
| 8 | All three writers deal with a haunting problem which humanity faces in coming to terms with its lot . |
| 9 | There was a direct connection with the shipyards , not only in terms of orders by British owners ( who now build abroad to a far greater extent than any other non-flag of convenience maritime nation ) , but through the training of engineering officers who traditionally served their time as fitters in the yards or engine works before going to sea . |
| 10 | The problem with device drivers is that they have to be installed in your CONFIG.SYS file , and it is usually helpful to have an install routine guide you through the process — lord knows , just about every other program you come across these days insists on writing to CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT . |
| 11 | Scrambling along the ground at 4 metres per second , a quail functions at a miserable 7 per cent fuel efficiency , Heglund found , while a man running at that speed achieves a 73 per cent ratio of fuel used in running to energy generated from food and oxygen . |
| 12 | Sir Montague returned an open verdict on Mr Garrod , 35 , who was revisiting the country where he had met his wife , Leanne , 30 , and spent seven years teaching before returning to England last Christmas . |
| 13 | These revelations come from talking to Personnel managers who admitted they often have to force over-stressed employees to have time off . |
| 14 | I am the treasurer of an organisation devoted to writing to prisoners under sentence of death in the Caribbean . |
| 15 | The aim of this research is to examine the strategies which prisoners and their families adopt in coming to terms with custody and its various social consequences . |
| 16 | This was concluded by a specific description of the problems involved in selling to Japan . |
| 17 | A generous interpretation aids both plaintiffs ( who may need to have service effected before proceeding to judgment ) and defendants ( who can benefit from knowledge of pending proceedings ) ; and the state of destination does not commit itself to recognise any judgment the plaintiff may ultimately obtain , for service facilitates proceedings and does not authenticate them . |
| 18 | Was n't it hard enough on that poor child to know no parents , to be totally disowned by her relations up in Westlands , to be brought up an orphan in the convent in second-hand clothes , and sent to a secretarial course when she had her heart set on going to university without being mown down by a car on her first week . |
| 19 | But you can achieve specific aims , and making people think about going to church instead of B & Q is a measurable objective . ’ |
| 20 | Suggestions ranged from hacksawing to blow-torches . |
| 21 | The need to make it clear so that people understand without having to sort of keep coming back and asking again and again , yep , great , thanks . |
| 22 | It 's not an easy quality to portray without resorting to wimpishness . |
| 23 | Surgeon banned after speeding to emergency |
| 24 | You can learn a certain amount by reading , but the best advice comes from talking to people . |
| 25 | Her life was changed by that visit to Moscow , as was Dona 's life changed by going to Navron . |
| 26 | The summer of 1984 was a glorious one , the West Indian team was one of their strongest and had just beaten Australia 3–0 ; the England team , with some of the top players banned after going to South Africa , was one of their most ordinary and had just lost series to Pakistan and New Zealand for the first time , and it was all rather one-sided . |
| 27 | In this it resembled the British constitution itself , which , as apo-logists delight in explaining to foreigners , is nowhere embodied in a single document having the force of law . |
| 28 | On offer are over 150 clubs and societies ranging from Gliding to Gilbert and Sullivan and from Animal Welfare to Chess . |
| 29 | The highest level of information used in processing to date has been some form of lexical look-up . |
| 30 | When Wycliffe returned from talking to Sidney he had to give them a statement . |