Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] to [pron] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He found at the edge of his consciousness the wish that he was just going to his own flat to crash out rather than back to share Catherine 's warm bed . |
| 2 | The hierarchical reductionist , on the other hand , explains a complex entity at any particular level in the hierarchy of organization , in terms of entities only one level down the hierarchy ; entities which , themselves , are likely to be complex enough to need further reducing to their own component parts ; and so on . |
| 3 | It is important to use the exact quantities of given ingredients when following cake recipes , but you should also remember that stated oven temperatures and cooking times may vary slightly according to your own oven 's temperament — make any minor adjustments as necessary . |
| 4 | But then they 'd say , ‘ I ca n't stand here listening to you all day ’ , and go off and do something else . |
| 5 | If the Masai had an educational system of their own which was functioning well according to their own criteria , there was no reason for them to view with favour the introduction into it , by people whose hegemony they accepted but did not welcome , of alien elements . |
| 6 | Perhaps he was contemplating his own life with Vivien here just as , when he connected McKnight Kauffer 's death with a sense of " the void " , he was once again returning to his own feeling of emptiness which had played so large a part in his religious conversion . |