Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [v-ing] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been unable to concentrate on her reading , her mind constantly straying to the conversation she had had with him in the rose gardens . |
| 2 | As Bloch has commented , ‘ To us accustomed to live with our eyes constantly turning to the clock , how remote from our civilization seems this society in which a court of law could not ascertain the time of day without discussion and inquiry ! ’ |
| 3 | But today the eyes were vibrant with an anticipatory light and Lady Merchiston sat up against her pillows , her glance alternately flicking to the window and following her companion as she moved about the room , tidying up . |
| 4 | Three models were found : a minimalist model based on limited contact between police officers and social workers through formal channels strictly according to the minimum demanded by procedural dictates ; a collaborative model involving close consultations on an informal as well as formal basis , about progress and proposed courses of action ; and an integrated model involving joint simultaneous investigation as a single operational entity . |
| 5 | I want somebody whose sitting there listening to the radio sort of er just relaxed and I I just want you to pick up the phone and ring . |
| 6 | As he uncovered them , he was confronted with the pageant , its gold and silverwork dazzling in the sunshine , and the weathercock gracefully bowing to the north in the breeze . |
| 7 | If you read the paragraph carefully you will find your eyes continually moving to the pie chart for confirmation that you have understood what has been written . |
| 8 | Such a combination made Magritte 's work immensely appealing to the Pop Art movement and to the advertising industry , to the artist 's continuing annoyance . |
| 9 | Smiths are , unfortunately , helping to bolster up all those cruds still clinging to the starting line and holding the starting gun . |
| 10 | Glues have improved since then , but the bows now coming to the fore are compound ones with wheels and pulleys and complex sights . |
| 11 | The seller will be expected to supply details of any correspondence with the local authority in respect of planning matters either relating to the property to be sold or to neighbouring property . |
| 12 | Detective Inspector Frank Gregson paced slowly back and forth from one side of his office to the other , his gaze occasionally shifting to the blackboard behind his desk . |
| 13 | , Swedish scientists have called attention to the large amount of halon gas , hundreds of times more damaging to the ozone layer than CFCs , which was used in the gulf war . |
| 14 | Bromine , the atom in halons which makes them effective fire fighters , also renders them three times more damaging to the ozone layer than the better known chlorofluorocarbons ( CFCs ) , used in aerosols and refrigerators . |
| 15 | All that remains of the 18C building once belonging to the Thun family are the portals by Santini . |
| 16 | For this scheme it would seem sensible to order the foci within each facet differently according to the nature of the facet . |
| 17 | Sort of erm working on a farm for two days then going to the college erm that , so I do it like that . |
| 18 | The same principle can be used with individual sinks contents continually discharging to the overflow . |
| 19 | The Stock Exchange Quotation Department is organised into various listing groups alphabetically according to the name of the listed ( target ) company . |
| 20 | The people in tighter financial circumstances get higher cost credit — with the extra cost of credit obviously adding to the tightness of their circumstances . |
| 21 | And it works well , the fine cracks in its surface merely adding to the character of the bass . |
| 22 | ( 2 ) Granting the application , that the central objective of the category of public interest immunity involved was the maintenance of an honourable , disciplined , law-abiding and uncorrupt police force ; that therefore , in view of the public disquiet understandably aroused by proven malpractice of some members of the disbanded West Midlands Serious Crime Squad , and of the extensive publicity already attaching to the authority 's documents following B. 's successful appeal , it could not be said that those who had co-operated in the authority 's investigation would regret that co-operation , or that future generations of potential witnesses would withhold it , if the court were to release the documents to the applicants to enable them to defeat if they could an allegedly corrupt claim in damages ; that the imperative public interest in the case was that the applicants had a proper opportunity of obtaining the evidence they sought so that the grave allegations which they made , and were the same allegations that had troubled the Court of Appeal sufficiently to allow B. 's appeal , could be properly tested in the courts ; and that , accordingly , B. 's undertaking would be varied to allow him to hand over to the applicants those of the authority 's documents which were incorporated in his appeal bundle , the applicants for their part undertaking to use those documents only for the purposes of defending the present libel proceedings pursued against them ( post , pp. 927G — 928A , B ) . |
| 23 | How many other twenty-two-year-olds stayed in on a Saturday night just listening to the rain hurl itself against the windows ? |
| 24 | Eventually it was time for bed and they waited until the middle of the night before sneaking to the workshop on tip-toes . |
| 25 | With both curves now shifting to the right , the equilibrium levels of income and employment must increase ( even in the liquidity trap and with interest-inelastic investment ) and there is now nothing to stop full employment from being reached . |
| 26 | at least even I never stooped to sending a circular round Community and Environment saying we do not want the danger of officers actually talking to the public and if there 's any credit , Councillor got to have it . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Er undoubtedly a number of erm our res er our our er employed people , do live in the area immediately adjoining to the South and er the figures that Hambleton have produced and our own estimates based on the National Health er Service records on migration , do indicate that there is a strong movement er on an annual basis into the North Yorkshire area and in particular the sort of area . |
| 29 | You see sailing boats gliding along , their huge sails gracefully bending to the wind . |
| 30 | Charles had already left , a couple of hours ago according to the secretary on the other end of the line . |