Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] to [noun] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After that , he merely sat , smoking Woodbines and idly listening to Music While You Work on the radio . |
| 2 | If I can get through this season and maybe onto the ‘ B ’ tour to New Zealand , then I would hope to be in a position to start having a big influence on matches , rather than just reacting to events as they happen ’ . |
| 3 | Window firm director Norman Waller , 34 , was just going to bed when he saw youths damaging a Vauxhall Cavalier belong to neighbour Bob Fay , Newcastle Crown Court was told . |
| 4 | And she 's bringing Alia and Adem to play with you We 're just going to Beckenham because we have to go to a shop there . |
| 5 | Our spirits were already beginning to flag when I received a letter from Eliot dated 2 June : |
| 6 | ‘ Some of them were still standing to attention as they fell . |
| 7 | The Three Valleys are bound to be in there too , with Charlotte 's vote probably going to Meribel because it 's in the central valley of the three and not what is invariably described as a concrete jungle ; Val d'Isere because the skiing is just so brill and Tignes is , well , a concrete jungle really . |
| 8 | He was not reassured by hearing Bruce Davidson in the passage cheerily observing to Catherine that she was looking a bittie pale ; was it just the London air , or had she been burning the candle at both ends ? |
| 9 | Some of the answers are only now coming to light as we find out more about the structures of the proteins that go to make up living cells themselves . |
| 10 | The full impact of last Thursday 's freak storm in Llandudno , Conwy and the surrounding areas is only now coming to light and it could be several months before some of the 500 people forced to leave their homes will be able to return . |
| 11 | All the time , she had been half listening and even replying to Gazzer as he chatted on about Simon , the police , and Bella . |
| 12 | about being tired and the same thing happened , waiting on them coming in and then going to bed and I could n't get over |
| 13 | The last step but one creaked protestingly and she grimaced apprehensively , her body almost turning to stone as she waited for Dane to suddenly appear and demand to know what she was doing . |