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

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1 Mark 's only mention of the Holy Spirit for Christians is , as we have seen , placed in the Apocalyptic Discourse in chapter 13 , where Jesus is looking ahead to the tribulations which will face his followers in the years running up to the fall of Jerusalem , and , interwoven with that theme , up to the end of the world .
2 She 's writing a children 's book , erm , well she 's written one , and it 's going around to the publishers and she 's written or she 's writing a second .
3 Now those are arteries , that 's the pulmonary artery but it 's coming back to the heart okay , that 's the only time you 're going to find the rule reversed , arteries leave the heart , veins come back to the heart , and the only time that rule is reversed is when you 're linking the heart and the lungs through the pulmonary vein and the pulmonary artery , however , they are still carrying , the arteries are still carrying oxygen charged blood , yes , because it 's come fresh from the lungs so it 's still carrying nice red lovely oxygenated blood , yes , even though it 's coming back into the heart , that is because it 's come fresh from the lungs and the vein although it 's going in the opposite direction the way you normally expect it , is still carrying the old rotten , you know , used up blood , because it 's going back to the lungs to be recharged , do you understand it alright ?
4 The man may feel that , if she 's harking back to the whys and wherefores , his wife is rubbing his nose in the past .
5 The man who spotted it says it 's inaccessible without proper equipment so Mr Scales is getting through to the coastguards , sir . ’
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