Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] to [noun sg] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Our spirits were already beginning to flag when I received a letter from Eliot dated 2 June : |
| 4 | ‘ Some of them were still standing to attention as they fell . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | 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 . |