Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun sg] [adv] [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the child is n't in for the mark prior going to the doctors at ten o'clock they 're absent even if they have a note . |
| 2 | Theda 's eyes remained closed as the lumbering stagecoach rumbled its way from Newark , where she had caught it outside the Saracen 's Head , to Ashby-de-la-Zouch , where it would remain for the night before proceeding to Stafford . |
| 3 | The negotiations took place over the course of a year between autumn 1990 and summer 1991 , and could be characterized as the centre progressively conceding to the demands of the republics for more independence . |
| 4 | So we 've cleansed off the cleanser now going to tissue dry Now toner is in a spray bottle , so we 're going to gently use the spray over Molly 's face . |
| 5 | With Kosovo and Vojvodina under his belt and Montenegro to come ( perhaps after a referendum there leading to that republic 's formal incorporation into Serbia ) , he could have a respectable country to run . |
| 6 | Official sources were yesterday unable to explain why the restrictions had been brought in , including whether they had been designed to reduce the risk of leaks to loyalists of the type recently coming to light . |
| 7 | It is the maintenance of these audit logs that generates most of the system overhead according to the company ; at the most basic level the extra security imposes a 2% to 3% speed reduction , but as the system records become more complete , this rises . |
| 8 | It is the maintenance of these audit logs that generates most of the system overhead according to the company ; at the most basic level the extra security imposes a 2% to 3% speed reduction , but as the system records become more complete , this rises . |
| 9 | Trestles were being set up along both sides of the room , but only a few sombrely dressed ladies were seated , the rest of the company apparently preferring to mill about in the centre of the hall . |
| 10 | Eventually it was time for bed and they waited until the middle of the night before sneaking to the workshop on tip-toes . |
| 11 | Wounded during the robbery , Roth ( Mr Orange ) actually spends most of the movie slowly bleeding to death , while Harvey Keitel ( the sentimental old-time thief Mr White ) , Steve Buscemi ( the motormouth obsessive Mr Pink ) and Michael Madsen ( the quietly psychopathic Mr Blonde ) bicker and brawl about who sold them out . |
| 12 | At the hearing some national experts came out strongly in favour of a system also extending to drawings , etchings , engravings sculptures , original photographs and , possibly , one-off designs of furniture and craft . |
| 13 | By now a total of 26 reservoirs had been sealed off throughout the country mainly owing to blooms of blue-green algae . |
| 14 | As a way of dealing with a crisis this seemed repugnant — a bit like a child only turning to his parents when he or she wants something . |
| 15 | Its arm fell off , clattering to the deck with the Perk still clinging to it . |
| 16 | Their search took them to six countries , with the contract finally going to Toronto-based Lovat . |
| 17 | Itchy anus , with the inflammation sometimes spreading to the buttocks and thighs |
| 18 | Two days of haggling on the price followed , with the seller reluctantly dropping to £3500 . |
| 19 | Now confidence has burgeoned , and they are looking the most complete side in the First Division , secure in defence and incisive in attack ; and , with a squad gradually returning to strength , they could dominate the second half of the season . |
| 20 | Progress on these areas of activity should be detailed , with a statement also relating to achievement of targets . |
| 21 | He did not seem to appreciate the contradiction between his virulent denunciations of parliamentary democracy and the increasingly close economic ties being woven between Spain and the western democracies ; nor between his belief that economic nationalism was best and the fact that unless Spain liberalized its economic policies , it would remain isolated from the growth then beginning to be enjoyed by the rest of Europe . |
| 22 | He was not reassured by hearing Bruce Davidson in the passage cheerily observing to Catherine that she was looking a bittie pale ; was it just the London air , or had she been burning the candle at both ends ? |
| 23 | It was ten minutes before he followed her , finding her in the kitchen apparently listening to a mid-Saturday morning news flash on the radio there with blank-eyed concentration . |
| 24 | He is seen here later in the year after posting to East Africa , with a Curtiss Mahawk in the background . |
| 25 | Bit of writing , bit of tennis , bit of reading ( to kill time ) , few beers in the evening before going to bed thinking what a waste my life is . |
| 26 | Periodically they would devote an entire day to a communal fast , praying , reading aloud from the Bible , attending several sermons , and sharing a simple communal meal in the evening before returning to their homes . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Univel Inc has outgrown the offices it was leasing from its parent Novell and has moved to new premises in the neighbourhood also belonging to Novell . |
| 29 | There 's a cool half million pounds in the kitty just waiting to be snapped up … a NEW 50,000 Generation Name Game , the latest thing in family fun … the chance to scoop a fortune on Vernons Pools and , of course , diamonds , diamonds , diamonds . |
| 30 | To claim that Britain has nurtured something in a matter ultimately pertaining to worship ( the choral singing of cathedral and chapel ) which is purified and controlled beyond anything possessed by Catholic Europe , which is purged of excessive artifice and rhetoric ( Continental reviewers consistently find English a cappella performances impassive ) and whose excellence gives Britain a mission these are among the ideas that have been the principal source of British national identity since the Act of Union in 1707 and were a foundation stone of English identity long before . |