Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [v-ing] to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Going around listening to the fat and the rich of the land confessing their secret sins , and secretly mocking us every time we reach a stone wall and can go no further ? |
| 2 | On one sunny afternoon , when running and feeding a platen-machine ( by hand ) and sweating profusely owing to the heat , the rattle of the front-door bell told me to attend the counter . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's difficult to understand why he might have been moving badly going to the start — perhaps it was the dirt or maybe it was because the heat was so intense . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ It 's difficult to understand why he might have been moving badly going to the start , perhaps it was the dirt or maybe it was the heat . ’ |
| 5 | Erm so how much time are you spending just going to the school ? |
| 6 | These are powered by expansion , opening and closing automatically according to the temperature . |
| 7 | But he 's eating well going to the loo alright . |
| 8 | She ai n't looking at it — she 's carrying on talking to the man , but she keeps twisting the neck of this white duck . |
| 9 | There was no point sitting here yapping to a bunch of fucking prejudiced right-wing bastards . |
| 10 | Stok was sitting there speaking to a telephone that looked like a prop from The Young Mister Edison . |