Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] and [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But those images are becoming harder and harder to stomach in a world hit by recession . |
| 2 | Some mountain farmers were looking more and more to tourism to provide the extra income necessary to allow them to continue living on their farms . |
| 3 | He is looking up and out to sea in a southerly direction , and looking and listening desperately for sight or sound of Middleton — but that was not to be . |
| 4 | She would have recovered some of her old high spirits if it had not been for a bout of measles and turning more and more to alcohol . |
| 5 | 3 When you have almost passed Carn Llidi , fork right inland , heading uphill and immediately to right of prominent stone-walled enclosure to go up on to left-hand shoulder of Carn Llidi . |
| 6 | We are getting closer and closer to entry by examination only . |
| 7 | ‘ This regular , increasing , and almost unvaried diet of sensation without commitment ’ would ‘ render its consumers less capable of responding openly and responsibly to life ’ and ‘ induce an underlying sense of purposelessness ’ . |