Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [adv] [v-ing] to [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Continue along the coast soon keeping to left of lighthouse buildings at St Abb 's Head ; briefly join lighthouse road , but it is best almost immediately to divert off it to rejoin cliff-top for sea views .
3 Again , the liability depends upon the money or property in question being received in the ordinary course of the receiving partner 's activities within the firm and not upon any authority vested in himsee Willett v Chambers ( 1778 ) Cowp 814 ( misapplication of moneys received from a client for investment on mortgage , the client being billed in the name of the firm ) , Rhodes v Moules [ 1895 ] 1 Ch 236 ( partner absconding with bearer share warrants proffered by client as collateral security for a mortgage loan , where the firm was in the habit of receiving such securities from its clients ) and Blair v Bromley ( 1847 ) 12 Ph 354 ( misapplication of money by a partner who paid interest on it to the client , the fraud only coming to light on the partner 's bankruptcy .
4 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 .
5 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 ?
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 In the corridor outside the classroom just listening to readers ?
8 Two days of haggling on the price followed , with the seller reluctantly dropping to £3500 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 On 15 October hastening back from Berwick , the king , the earl of Kent , Hugh Despenser the younger , and the rest of the court arrived at Bridlington priory where they spent the night before retreating to Burstwick , in Holderness .
12 Meanwhile , Twinhead 's Twinstation MP , a dual-processor Sparctstaion 2-compatible offering , already out in the US , is due to hit the UK shortly according to director , Allen Wu .
13 The day after returning to Vancouver I was called to Ira Dilworth 's office at five o'clock .
14 Her voice could be heard at three in the morning at the Gargoyle solemnly announcing to Minton , ‘ We Capricorns must stick together . ’
15 Like so many of the men now rising to leadership in poor countries , he has done a stint at the World Bank , and is regarded as capable .
16 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 .
17 Overactivity by the parasympathetic can also result in bowel disturbances , or contraction of the bronchi producing asthma , or over-secretion of acid by the stomach eventually leading to stomach ulcers .
18 For Russell , this was an exceptional opening into the mysteries of the craft , whilst for the College of Arms it was a great mistake as their involvement in funerals quickly declined , the embers briefly coming to life with the public obsequies of Queen Mary in 1695 .
19 He is seen here later in the year after posting to East Africa , with a Curtiss Mahawk in the background .
20 By now a total of 26 reservoirs had been sealed off throughout the country mainly owing to blooms of blue-green algae .
21 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 .
22 I suppose that I was influenced by the exploits of the great test pilots of the day , people like Peter Twiss , Neville Duke and John Derry , who were at the time just coming to grips with high-speed flight and what was called the ‘ sound-barrier ’ .
23 Stephen had a meeting with the shop steward the following morning at 8.30 , and came back to the house afterwards shouting to Victor the butler for strong black coffee .
24 Cos I 'm doing about what , about three hundred fi three hundred fifty miles a week just going to work and back
25 The first recorded meeting was termed a meeting of ‘ bondholders ’ although no constitution even agreeing to bondholders as yet existed .
26 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 .
27 Progress on these areas of activity should be detailed , with a statement also relating to achievement of targets .
28 Death was treated with a certain deference , although the passing of a sitting MP was regarded either as a blessing in disguise ( ‘ never liked him ’ ) or , if the Party was unpopular , as a confounded nuisance , a by-election inevitably leading to exposure , expense and humiliating defeat .
29 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 .
30 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 .
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