Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [adv] [v-ing] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( c ) master equipment for recording and reproducing , e.g. recording a programme off air on to tape and then transferring to cassettes for use at the satellites . |
| 2 | Lucy said ruefully , gratefully lowering herself on to a floral-cushioned , wicker-backed sofa in the conservatory and reluctantly submitting to Virginia 's fussing with a footstool , ‘ Is Mrs Chalk still there ? |
| 3 | Thomas looked at them all , and then at Simon , who was now a small figure and in another sense no longer monstrous , because he was walking exactly as he had done when he was a very young child and most moving to Thomas , with his hands in his pockets and his back arched . |
| 4 | Warmed by the Gulf Stream and with an enviably mild climate , it feels like another country — but with all the comforts of home and duty-free shopping to boot ! |
| 5 | If they have overprotective parents , always worried and fearful , they may not develop the confidence they need , and become shy and timid , unable to take responsibility and always looking to others to take the lead . |
| 6 | Perhaps , after all , anguish died with time , and life became a simple matter of bills and procreation and sometimes going to parties . |
| 7 | But in an increasingly urbanized society it took new forms more apparent to political opinion and more threatening to life and industry ; and there were very many more large populous areas devoid of the most elementary arrangements for disposing of waste or supplying pure water . |
| 8 | More immediately , it was very good to see the Prime Ministers of Czechoslovakia and Hungary , and the acting Prime Minister of Poland , in Brussels on Monday , signing the association agreements between those countries and the Community and thus bringing to fruition an initiative begun by my right hon. Friend the Member for Finchley ( Mrs. Thatcher ) . |
| 9 | The terrier , a Jack Russell , was always a hunting animal , working rough ground and even going to ground in those situations where it could safely get down into a fox earth or a drainpipe . |
| 10 | She did n't much feel like sitting beside the pool and simply shouting to Ana . |
| 11 | He also admitted attempting to defraud the Provincial Insurance Company and falsely representing to police officers that the car had been stolen from Cotton Street , Castle Douglas . |
| 12 | The race has to be held between noon and 1pm according to tradition , so weighing in takes place between 10.30am and 11.30am . |