Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [noun pl] to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other teachers and other girls were forever taking fancies to each other , but there was something strangely eccentric about Mrs Hill 's fancy , just as her whole position in the school was eccentric . |
| 2 | Wives were assisting with the lambing , looking after calves , and most probably administering drugs to young stock when needed . |
| 3 | Experience has shown that surer progress can be made towards introducing the policy throughout the CAB by carefully tailoring courses to local readiness , and allowing workers to grow towards a greater social awareness at their own pace . |
| 4 | All AE 's immediately turned to stare at one of their number a poker-faced young man , who described any client who would n't buy from him as a " cunt " even scribbling comments to that effect on the client record cards . |
| 5 | Following the principle of decorum ( to be found , for instance , in Horace 's Ars Poetica ) , the classical view was that the style which dealt with serious matters had to be non-realistic , in the sense of systematically eliminating references to everyday life and using a type of language much more elaborate and re fined than that of everyday usage ; non-serious subjects could be dealt with realistically , in ordinary language , but on no account could the different levels of style be mixed together . |