Example sentences of "[coord] [be] [v-ing] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over one thousand of the three and half thousand Old Somervillians have given or are giving to the Appeal . |
| 2 | We are again one step ahead of the legislators and are conforming to the Environment Protection Act 's ‘ Duty of care ’ by installing our own purpose built incinerators throughout the country . |
| 3 | Seb 's statement brought a chorus of derision from a couple of navvies who had entered the tent behind him and were listening to the conversation . |
| 4 | : A bunch of us whose ages ranged from 151/2 to 17 were in our billet waiting to go to on parade and were listening to the billet radio system . |
| 5 | My parents , who had come back to Hastings from their exile in Somerset to fish and clean , as they always did , had braved all and were coming to the wedding . |
| 6 | He could not see , nor think what that link might have been , beyond what was an evident fact to him : that they were mythagos created by Tallis , and were responding to the mind which had engendered them . |
| 7 | The Adhesives and Specialty Polymers group has seven production sites in the US , one in Canada and six in Europe , and is getting to the stage of having the same production capability in either region . |
| 8 | The placebo effect means that any treatment will improve a patient merely because he wants to recover and is responding to the clinician 's attempts to help rather than to a specific treatment . |
| 9 | He believes that unemployment is socially divisive and is leading to the creation of an underclass . |
| 10 | Garth , who also strokes the crew , is a former lightweight international and is returning to the form he showed before a back injury sidelined him last year . |
| 11 | The Cardiff Bay Barrage Bill , which affects my constituency and is returning to the House for the third time , now has an EIS which has been published and is freely available to the hon. Members in the Vote Office . |
| 12 | The treasurer , in sharp , clipped tones , was listing the committee 's various expenditures and was bringing to the attention of the members the fact that there was only twenty dollars in hand . |
| 13 | He had picked up the Bren gun and was gazing to the left of the wood and pointing the gun in the same direction . |
| 14 | Discussions on workers ' control and the general strike to stop war also showed that an important section of the trade unions had reacted against gradualism , at least in words , and was returning to the syndicalist notions fashionable some ten years before . |
| 15 | He stood up , stony-faced , and was turning to the door when James Menzies held up his hand and said , ‘ Wait — wait — that is only half the business . ’ |
| 16 | Suddenly fearful she 'd attack him , he turned without picking the lamp up , only to find that the woman had already claimed her clothes from the snarl of sheets and was retreating to the bedroom door . |
| 17 | Yes , an and what really upset the erm the , the members of the scheme and the pensioners was the fact that the money was going to actually erm fund the redundancy per programme er for the business and was going to the benefit of the employees and none of it was going to the actual pensioners . |