Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [prep] [v-ing] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The issues to which my hon. Friend referred are just those where the health service needs to do a little better on listening to patients ' needs . |
| 2 | Though Sir Derek must ultimately carry management responsibility for the mess ISC has got the company into , it would prove difficult to find someone better to sort it out if only because any newcomer would have to spend so long in getting to grips with the problems . |
| 3 | Too many Group businesses , he said , are not good enough yet at listening to employees ' ideas and responding to them . |
| 4 | Unlike most scholars in the field , he was actually a trained architect , studying under the late Neo-classicist Albert Richardson , but he practised only briefly before turning to writing . |
| 5 | Patients were instructed to administer the enema once daily before retiring to bed and were warned that they may pass dark stools as a result of treatment . |
| 6 | Just as in the 1914 war , the first effect to be felt was that of large numbers of operating and engineering staff joining the forces and London Transport had its own Territorial Unit who went to camp in August 1939 and were sent straight overseas without returning to work . |
| 7 | He investigates by going to places , tackling people , often but not always by shooting or slugging them , and often but not obligatorily so by going to bed with them . |
| 8 | But the old people preferred to remain there instead of moving to properties which might be a bit far away for them . |
| 9 | is the perfect answer for people who do not like grating cheese — it crumbles very easily for adding to sauces and salads , etc . |
| 10 | PS I do n't think you should marry that young man in the back row of the chorus , it 's too soon after going to bed with your horse dressed up as a Praetorian Guard . |