Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Never had his mind worked so fast or so clearly , leaping on from one conclusion to the next , some exhilarating , some appalling . |
| 2 | ‘ A sepulchre of windy shams ’ says Hewlett , squaring up in excellent form to the classical urbanity of San Biagio . |
| 3 | You were sort of dallying about from one foot to the other . |
| 4 | This in turn explains why the infinitive can evoke both the wide range of all possible realizers ( as in To visit the poor is a Christian obligation ) and the narrowing down of this range to one particular spatial support ( for instance , to the speaker as in Oh to be in England … ) . |
| 5 | This lonely spot , at nearly 1700 feet , I call Birkdale Summit in the absence of an official name , the long valley of Birkdale going down from this point to Keld . |
| 6 | It had been reported by the colliery official and er the colliery manager of the time thought it was n't even important enough to actually stop men going in to that district to work . |
| 7 | They was taken before , I was five , across , we move , he moved here just across the , across the road , not far only just matter going over from one side to the other and I was five there , so now I 'm sixty seven now and that before then , you see , before I was born . |
| 8 | Those people with dogs in that sort of situation are very welcome to walk through the playing field and then out the other side and away , I would n't stop them going over from that entrance to the to the top entrance . |
| 9 | And so we were going up from that price to that price . |
| 10 | was going out of this area to the providers of er of capital , for opportunities within this area we can go to London for example be many bankers there who will be being approached by companies within the northern region , north west region asking them for money to support them in their in their ventures . |
| 11 | He 's got ta miles and miles back next week and then he 's going back to following week to be lift driver . |
| 12 | Rushing about from one racetrack to another , always on planes or trains . |
| 13 | By the time we reach the end of the scene we see that this is how it is , for the fulsome praisers of their father put aside their hypocrisy and , left alone with each other , and with us , reveal their true nature , moving down from inflated verse to coldly pragmatic prose : They are not only cold and censorious — ‘ unruly waywardness … infirm and choleric years … unconstant starts ’ — but end by planning some form of counteraction : ‘ We shall further think on it ’ — ‘ We must do something , and i ’ th' heat' ( 307f . ) . |
| 14 | This takes two forms : the contracting out of clinical work to private hospitals and competitive tendering for the provision of non-medical services such as cleaning , catering and laundry services . |
| 15 | Also at about the same moment as the homing rat disappeared into the maze of runs under the city , scurrying along in faultless obedience to an ancient instinct , the Patrician of Ankh-Morpork picked up the letters delivered that morning by albatross . |
| 16 | I 'm concerned about the loss of the access of parental rights panel and the handing over of this work to the Courts and the lawyers . |
| 17 | The Beaver 's 144 cubicfoot interior is divided into a two-seat cockpit and slightly lower 120 cubic-foot four-footwide 52 inch-high main cabin , in which Tony has fitted a pair of three-seat benches , the middle row having a split folding back for easy access to the rear ones . |
| 18 | He never looked at her and she had the feeling that she should be hopping about from one foot to the next , ready to beg . |
| 19 | The abiding impression of eighties government is of a woman going briskly about her business , handbag over one arm , bustling off from one meeting to another , impatient at others ' need for rest or reflection . |
| 20 | You imagined you 'd found a less arduous way of earning a living than trailing round from one audition to the next . |