Example sentences of "[am/are] [adv] [v-ing] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Sales were focused first on the East Coats , then the West Coast and are now spreading to the Gulf of Mexico , pulling in new business — currently worth about £1 million a year — at a time when marine growth is static . |
| 32 | Those at the conference table are not Palestine Liberation Organisation representatives working out of Tunis but people who actually live in the occupied territories , who have been deprived of their homeland , as they see it , and who are now looking to the future and trying to negotiate some kind of settlement . |
| 33 | We are now coming to the time of the year when paddlers start competing again in marathons and it would be nice to remember the ancient Greeks who started it all off . |
| 34 | We enjoyed it so much we are now going to the rock 'n' roll class on Wednesday evenings at . |
| 35 | ‘ But I 'm just going to the loo . |
| 36 | I 'm just going to the bog . ’ |
| 37 | I 'm rapidly coming to the conclusion that this is a young man 's game . ’ |
| 38 | I 'm rapidly coming to the opinion that one large tough fish is easier to monitor in less-than-perfect conditions such as a new tank than a shoal of small stuff . |
| 39 | So books that seek to inform the public about illness are simply adding to the problem . |
| 40 | So I am here attributing to the kingfisher ‘ knowledge how ’ rather than ‘ knowledge that ’ . |
| 41 | Constitutional expert Harold Brooks-Baker , of Burke 's Peerage , said : ‘ I feel that Buckingham Palace should be prepared to deny some of these stories which are potentially threatening to the monarchy . ’ |