Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [art] [noun sg] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I put the mink coat on a chair and retraced my journey , locking the door again and eventually returning the key to Mercer who nodded without speech and put it in his pocket . |
| 2 | Father Moore is only a brief visitor ; he has called in crisply to pay his respects , exchange a few words of banter with Patsy ( also a brother-in-law of somebody ) , and to inform Siobhan that next year he will be personally heading a pilgrimage to Knock so as to ward off any unfortunate flukes of the road . |
| 3 | I would suggest that the government would be a lot , lot better adding a ticket to amounts of money , which said ‘ You either spend this money on implementing the Food Safety Act , or you do n't get it . ’ |
| 4 | This is generated in a mixing system , situated above the column , by constantly increasing the solvent to non-solvent ratio and as the mixture is initially a poor solvent which is gradually enriched by the good solvent the low molar mass fractions are eluted first . |
| 5 | Typically overheating by 1°C increases energy consumption by 7 per cent , and so heating a building to 22°C rather than the statutory maximum of 19°C increases the amount of energy used by over 20 per cent . |
| 6 | It was thought that the position of these encourages motorists to cut the corner when coming over the bridge thus causing a hazard to vehicles and pedestrians coming the other way . |
| 7 | The company is thus providing a service to others who wish to purchase these structures . |
| 8 | That 's not counting the damage to transformers and other equipment from the nests that escape our attention , or the fact that we have to deal with similar problems in Caithness and Shetland . ’ |
| 9 | From watching Isobel and her husband he had discovered that there was much more to sex than just taking a girl to bed or being uneasily married to a frigid , grasping woman . |
| 10 | Sludds , the 33-year-old from Finglas , had a virtually flawless round shooting four birdies and not dropping a shot to par all day . |
| 11 | ‘ I was not making an expedition to Luxor . |
| 12 | When Wendy 's father died of lung cancer , he asked Rhoda to move in and presently got it together to marry her , thus putting a stop to Wendy 's sudden plan to abandon Dev and move back in with Ken . |
| 13 | A smashing day for sitting around with your favourite folk swapping stories and generally setting the world to rights . |
| 14 | She 's to be Australia 's representative at next summer 's Venice Biennial , but if you 're not planning a trip to Italy , just go down to Prince St where Anina Nosei is showing recent examples of her work from 4 to 31 December . |
| 15 | I was not planning a trip to Alice Springs , I pointed out . |
| 16 | Here the new road over to Glen Garry , continuing the A.87 classification , turns to the right , the signpost still urging a visit to Fort William . |
| 17 | Always having a calculator to hand ( is n't that what you bought a computer for ? ) and an instantly accessible notepad are probably the two essential elements . |
| 18 | The album has its moments , and some people — forever willing a return to greatness from Dylan — will no doubt say it 's a masterwork . |
| 19 | All in all , the technology could be said to be qualitatively transforming the threat to privacy which information systems , even manually sorted card indexes , have always posed . |
| 20 | David Reed is also writing a guide to Nepal . |
| 21 | But the dog ended up chewing the thing to bits . ’ |
| 22 | Any special policies you 've introduced ( eg. restricting a dummy to night-times ) . |
| 23 | The opening day of the Congress of People 's Deputies reflected anger in the country at the administration 's shock therapy economic programme , with one delegate speaking of ‘ economic genocide ’ and a host of others angrily calling the leadership to account . |
| 24 | While he was in the stable saddling up his horse , he did not realise that his mother-in-law was only now breaking the news to Sarah that she would be remaining in Leeds . |
| 25 | As the government has ruled out cutting the subscription to CERN , the European centre for particle physics , those statements point to a continuing squeeze on nuclear physics . |
| 26 | This killer dressed like a popinjay , sweetly singing a madrigal to men he knew were his sworn enemies . |
| 27 | This tended to support the broad structure at most Colleges at that time , ie reflecting a division to operations and support . |
| 28 | Kibaki and Jaramogi Oginga Odinga , the veteran opposition leader , one-time Vice-President ( in 1964-66 ) and now leader of FORD-Kenya , were reported on Dec. 31 to have threatened to withdraw their parties from the electoral process , alleging widespread irregularities which they said in a statement were " fast pushing the nation to war " . |
| 29 | ‘ I sit down and say to myself , how can I convert a mileage reading of one hundred and fifty thousand into only ten thousand without taking the speedometer to pieces ? |
| 30 | Tunnel-bound traffic would continue to use Conway Street , but traffic presently leaving the tunnel to Conway Street would be re-routed via Borough Road . |