Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] and [adv] [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both cases can be covered by imposing the additional constraint and then turning to the second objective . |
| 2 | But in an increasingly urbanized society it took new forms more apparent to political opinion and more threatening to life and industry ; and there were very many more large populous areas devoid of the most elementary arrangements for disposing of waste or supplying pure water . |
| 3 | Other vulnerable countries face heavy expenditures , cancelling out any savings made in defence budgets — around one trillion dollars a year globally — following the end of the cold war and perhaps rising to the levels of expenditures experienced in a war . |
| 4 | Its grotesque outline keeps popping into view unexpectedly wherever one walks or drives around Lochinver , appearing as a giant thimble and always seeming to be peering inquisitively to see what is happening . |
| 5 | Cale performs his songs simply , pounding out confident chords from a grand piano and then turning to an acoustic guitar in order to add another shade of grey to his musical palette . |
| 6 | The terrier , a Jack Russell , was always a hunting animal , working rough ground and even going to ground in those situations where it could safely get down into a fox earth or a drainpipe . |
| 7 | The first and last lines of each verse contain six syllables , with the numbers of syllables increasing to the middles of each stanza and then decreasing to the endings . |
| 8 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
| 9 | Venice and Lake Garda is a full day trip stopping first at Italy 's largest lake and then proceeding to the ancient water city of Venice to enjoy the wonderful atmosphere of St Marks Square , the Grand Canal and the elegant shops . |
| 10 | And sure enough there 's Macaulay lying on a massive , draped bed in a room overlooking Central Park watching gangster videos , being spoon-fed ice cream by a subservient flunkey and generally answering to no one . |
| 11 | Thomas looked at them all , and then at Simon , who was now a small figure and in another sense no longer monstrous , because he was walking exactly as he had done when he was a very young child and most moving to Thomas , with his hands in his pockets and his back arched . |