Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [v-ing] [adv prt] to [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Last night , Platt said : ‘ It could go at any time , walking across the training ground or even sitting down to lunch .
2 There was also what was to become a recurrent feature of Gilkes 's reports — as indeed it had been for a half a century already — regret at the parents ' lack of faith or courage , which resulted in boys leaving early and not going on to University .
3 ( a ) Facing Eyemouth sea-front , turn left along esplanade , joining beach at Dolphin Hotel ( which is to left ) ; leave beach by prominent path up on to cliff-top , and then keep along top of cliffs ignoring left forks , with caravan site on left and soon diverting out to headland ( with cannons ) ( b ) .
4 Er and then going on to article twelve under the principle
5 It remained at this value for a further 20 minutes before rising again to 3.5 ( 0.5 ) by 30 minutes and then falling back to baseline by 2.5 hours .
6 The foolishness in ‘ Futility ’ being the foolishness of men going out killing each other and then coming back to nature and hoping that nature can sort out the mess they have made .
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