Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [v-ing] to [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos I was sort of like listening to my music and it was , I think it was about half eight , nine o'clock cos I 'd only got some homework done for ne , to do for next Tuesday , so I thought I 'll leave it |
| 2 | The infantry detailed to guard them let off only a couple of volleys before also taking to their heels . |
| 3 | Would have difficulty pro possibly in actually getting to their flat . |
| 4 | It is clearly a new preoccupation with tragedy that explains the disproportion — tragedy and its origins : in the historically minded nineteenth century , no one with intellectual pretensions could think of an entity without also looking to its origins , however remote or obscure . |
| 5 | The poetic name has been replaced by terms such as " chaotic complex " and the pseudo-scientific " Olistostromes " without really adding to our knowledge , but the essential point is that submarine landslipping is now thought to be only part of the process rather than the whole . |
| 6 | As soon as she entered the room she knew that Clare had already been telling tales ; or at least complaining to her colleagues . |