Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] to [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | MUR ON TIG WON The disagreeable experience of listening to oneself in the middle of a long speech and neither understanding what one is saying nor enjoying the manner in which it is being said ; a foreign accent ; a lion breaking wind after the evening repast |
| 2 | If we allow the King 's Cross Railways Bill to proceed and in the end no high-speed link or underground link between Stratford and King 's Cross is built , we shall be left with an enormous white elephant at King 's Cross with no means of getting to it from the channel tunnel . |
| 3 | Such patterns of stress may be so much more damaging than the sum of their separate effects because their co-existence leads to a different attribution of meaning to them on the part of the child . |
| 4 | He began to think he could be doing more important things like writing to everyone in the country , asking if he was their son . |
| 5 | " It was just like talking to him in the old days in Algiers in Allied Force Headquarters . " |
| 6 | It 's amazing how much we pick up just from listening to someone on the telephone , and of course when you ca n't see them , so you have n't got any visual clues as to what they might be like , what you hear becomes all important . |
| 7 | From talking to them on the way home and talking to Ted Heath 's G P , who we also had a long discussion with , without doubt there are other people there who obviously simply refuse to let come home , who are just as serious and , from the sound of it , one or two perhaps even more serious than the ones we did bring home . |
| 8 | Imperceptibly Hamilton had switched from talking to her to the girl who was still staring at her . |
| 9 | He 's got this really boring name — Stuart Hughes , I ask you , there 's a career in soft furnishings for you , no qualifications needed except the perfect name , sir , and you 've got it — and he 's quite complacent about answering to it for the rest of his days . |
| 10 | Faced with a row of objects we do not , he said , lampooning Wittgenstein , perform appropriately by pointing to one after the other saying that 's a tree , that 's a tree , that 's a man , that 's a tree . |
| 11 | Hassan escorted and drove me wherever I needed to go and acted as general red-tape cutter by referring to me as the English Sheikha , friend of this or that Sheikh . |
| 12 | The former health secretary brushed aside talk of a demotion by referring to himself as the new Minister for Majorism . |
| 13 | I may indeed remind my friend of a thought I had by referring to it as the one I had on first wakening in Venice . |
| 14 | This relationship was discovered by Gauss who recognized its importance by referring to it as the ‘ Excellent ’ Theorem . |