Example sentences of "[pron] [v-ing] [adv] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE danger of trying to limp to safety on goalless draws was graphically illustrated by Coventry 's last-gasp defeat which could have them hanging on to the last day of the season before knowing their fate . |
| 2 | Coventry slumped to a last-gasp 1–0 defeat at Notts County which could have them hanging on to the last day of the season before knowing their fate . |
| 3 | As he turned back to the eerie blue-blackness of the strip lights in the corridor , Cardiff heard a thick grunt and the slap of someone falling heavily to the tiled floor . |
| 4 | The company participates in nearly a score of such ventures , some of them dating back to the 1930s . |
| 5 | He saw himself as a courtier only by profession and hated to find himself succumbing already to the sycophantic atmosphere of the Palace offices . |
| 6 | Unable to accept again the superstitions he had discarded , nevertheless with time and misfortune he found himself turning back to the three deities who had guided his early life , and helped him through his harsh apprenticeship as a scribe : the reasonable Thoth , ibis-headed , god of the scribes ; Horus , son of Osiris ; and the protector of the hearth , Bes — the little god of his childhood . |
| 7 | I said were you looking forward to a nice pear oh you 've got them have you ? |
| 8 | It appeared that more was required and Liz , resenting the inanity thus forced upon her even as it passed her lips , found herself saying ‘ And how are you looking forward to the 1980s ? ’ |
| 9 | And finally , I you looking forward to the next year ? |
| 10 | We take a look at nine of the hottest designs around that 'll send you panting off to the outdoor shops |
| 11 | Are you coming down to the great burrow ? " |
| 12 | As their celebrations continue more facts emerge with enough twists and turns to keep you guessing up to the final curtain . |
| 13 | A nail-biter that will have you chewing down to the second knuckle . |
| 14 | Since fires often start at night , and most homes only have one flight of stairs , which may well be unusable , it pays to work out in advance possible escape routes from upstairs windows — ideally one leading on to a flat roof , otherwise one with a flowerbed or grass below , rather than a hard surface . |
| 15 | ‘ In no way are we going back to a 1979-80 recession . |
| 16 | So a a a a as you say that the problem is that erm as this process gets under way and er i i s so , I , I think it 's , it 's not just absolute egalitarian in that everybody will get the same , I think there was an assumption that there would be enough for everybody becoming up to a middle peasant status . |
| 17 | ‘ Now I can see him going on to the next one , the way he is playing . |
| 18 | And what do his parents think — him going off to a distant town with a stranger like you ? ’ |
| 19 | Behind them , they heard her murmuring anxiously to the little boy . |
| 20 | The joint BPXM-Pemex team has set about the task ahead of them by cataloguing a mass of seismic , well and production data , much of it dating back to the 1930s . |
| 21 | Is it referring just to a triumphalistic idea of atonement in which everything is just alright in the end ? |
| 22 | You find yourself hanging on to every last minute together . ’ |
| 23 | When I 'm at a crossroads , if I find myself going back to the same place I had a happy encounter , I deliberately go the other way , so I do n't become a slave to habit . |
| 24 | It was 50 years from the first signs of the rundown of the British Empire to our going cap-in-hand to the International Monetary Fund for financial support . |
| 25 | I think I 'll try and go for the scouse game then ( unless that is going to be postponed — would it depend on us getting through to the next round of the FA Cup ? ) . |