Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [verb] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Challenging also refers to the need that sometimes arises to confront the counsellees with alternative understandings of the problems they face . |
| 2 | Thirdly , Franco and advisers such as his brother-in-law , Ramón Serrano Suñer , looking ahead to a post-war Spain and impressed by Italian and German precedents , were becoming increasingly attracted to the idea of a single-party and perhaps even totalitarian state . |
| 3 | Mr Goodstadt says : ‘ Until recently , further opportunities for planting were becoming increasingly restricted to the residue of highly sensitive uplands , where contentious applications conflicted with the interests of wildlife , landscape and water resources . ’ |
| 4 | Becoming emotionally attached to the ICU environment |
| 5 | It has been suggested that the Soviet political process produces tendencies for problems to be faced too late and for decision-makers then to push too fast and too far paying little heed to the impact of their decisions in other realms . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 9 | Whose doing most damage to the pitch ? ? |
| 10 | The guilt people feel at having perhaps contributed to the illness or accident can be overwhelming . |
| 11 | The other day I bought the enchanting ASV CD of clarinet Concertos by played by Emma Johnson and read the notes only as an afterthought this morning , having already listened to the disc several times . |
| 12 | Erm so how much time are you spending just going to the school ? |
| 13 | As the seats in question had last been contested in 1986 , at the height of the popularity of the Nakasone government , the ruling party had little realistic expectation of increasing its total representation , but was aiming to avoid losing further ground to the opposition . |
| 14 | These are powered by expansion , opening and closing automatically according to the temperature . |
| 15 | But he 's eating well going to the loo alright . |
| 16 | This posting was a remarkable achievement , considering the number of regular officers trying desperately to get to the front , dreading that the war would be over before they could take part . |
| 17 | In the middle of this he was trying really to listen to the distress of the family and demonstrate something of the compassion of God at the same time . |
| 18 | I was trying hard to listen to the music and not look at them so I picked the local paper up and opened it . |
| 19 | They find a backlog of work building up , in which important but less urgent planning and discussing never get to the top of the pile , being submerged by the constant stream of things that have to be dealt with immediately . |
| 20 | This provided a detailed analysis of the current state of play on waste disposal , offering little comfort to the industry . |