Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] to a [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is already leading to a resumption or the land improvement work carried out by the crofters in the sixties , with the help of the College of Agriculture and the Crofters Commission , working closely together . |
| 2 | It 's much easier just belonging to a club and not having |
| 3 | The limousine was finally slowing to a halt and they scrambled for their shoes . |
| 4 | The British imitators are still whispering to a city that 's still in bed . |
| 5 | So why not celebrate the fact that it 's rapidly coming to an end and invest in a poignant musical reminder of 1992 … ? |
| 6 | She was gabbling nervously , she realised , gradually petering to a halt as the implacable dark face did n't register any reaction whatsoever . |
| 7 | This art was continued by his son Thomas until 1826 , the scenes often relating to a description or incident in the book chosen for decoration . |
| 8 | Dolina ( literally a valley ) is a shallow , saucer-shaped depression , often leading to a sink-hole or ponor . |
| 9 | Matters are now coming to a head because of the advent of leagues next season . |
| 10 | Stok was sitting there speaking to a telephone that looked like a prop from The Young Mister Edison . |
| 11 | As expected , the results show a significant decrease in accuracy when initially pointing to a target while wearing prisms than for normal vision . |
| 12 | Erm so quite apart from fro from that , this approach to the whole question concentrating on parental investment and female choice would not only make us sensitive to female choice in the sense of either submitting to a male or not but secondly it would make us er wonder what happened even after a female had mated and we could predict could n't we that females ought to be discriminating abou about the subsequent fate of any fertilized erm zygote and indeed there 's plenty of evidence to show that human females highly discriminated and far from passive even after they 've been fertilized . |
| 13 | Frau Geller murmured something to her companion about it never happening to a woman unless she 'd been asking for it . |
| 14 | Whenever someone — Mum , Dad , Ted — tried to locate me , I was always somewhere else , occasionally going to a lecture and then heading out to see Changez and Jamila . |
| 15 | Their handbags are shopping bags , their holidays are day trips , and occasionally going to a son or daughter . |
| 16 | Football is all about outwitting your opponents , never playing to a formula and always having a change of underwear . |