Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] to [noun sg] [subord] [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 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 . |