Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] [adv] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What did he say ? ’ said Masklin , hanging on tightly to the sweater . |
| 2 | Now the cartoon Princess stops at the point where she is clad in sexy underwear , instead of stripping down further to the G-string . |
| 3 | I was walking through here to the office . |
| 4 | ‘ Looking back now to the time when the site for these premises was chosen , and realising the state of affairs existing in this type of works , it is surprising to me that this process was ever permitted on this site at all ( being figuratively speaking within arms length of the dwellings ) . |
| 5 | For the duration of the war , British and American diplomats performed a nerve-racking balancing act , providing just enough credit and material aid ( especially grain and petroleum ) to prevent Franco from going over completely to the Axis , but not so much as to enable him to become strong enough to dispense with maintaining relations with them . |
| 6 | For the latest , we 're going over live to the meeting , and our reporter Nick Clark . |
| 7 | All kinds of signals going up there to the score board . |
| 8 | One , one er stress in my , on what happens so that , that it 's companying it 's been manufacturing leg irons that 's been going out there to the Nile , has n't it , was n't it to . |
| 9 | Perhaps going back again to the quality of life , was it a a release valve for the frustration of the places ? |
| 10 | Well , we are going back now to the days of the hand joiner 's shop , when mouldings were scribed ( not routered ! ) and tenons cut with the rip saw . |
| 11 | Her head is in her hands , holding on hard to the tears . |
| 12 | Moving on then to the capital programme erm which is summarized in table two on page six and er go into that in detail in the two . |
| 13 | We lifted them into place , one of them nestling in precisely to the mark on the wall , left by the previous incumbent . |
| 14 | They are so afraid of the label of ‘ monetarism ’ that most of them ( with some honourable exceptions ) avoid facing up squarely to the role of expansion of the money supply in generating inflation . |
| 15 | The crowds of buyers , who apparently did not share their view , were moving out now to the lawn where the sale was due to begin in a large marquee . |
| 16 | Although at easter time there is some shocking bad weather sometimes , you know really cold sleety showers and it 's just a question of getting out there to the sand and get it over quickly . |
| 17 | The Inspector who reported on that Litchfield city local plan said , go away , leave your Litchfield city plan and look at the options beyond the greenbelt , including erm the possibility of a new village , and I think that 's that 's the point here , instead of rolling back the greenbelt you should be looking beyond , you know , what is the general extent of the greenbelt to see what options are available , just coming on then to the size point , again that Mr Grantham raised , I have through erm experience both in the Cambridge situation which I referred to extensively erm in my statement , and in East Staffordshire where we are promoting a plan , er a site for a new village which is included in the deposited plan , we 've looked in both the Cambridge and the er East Staffordshire situation , bo at service provision , both from speaking to the providers of those services and whether or not they need a specific facility in the settlement , and from the developers point of view , that if you 've got a pot of money what can you afford to erm provide within a settlement of that size , and the conclusions we are rai er sort of reaching are a du a settlement of the order of twelve fifty dwellings can support your primary school , community centre , erm a range of shops , and so on and so forth , so what I 'm saying in my submission that the an appropriate size is in the thousand fifteen hundred mark , is that were you can get a reasonable co balance of community facilities and provide the relevant infrastructure in terms of services . |
| 18 | Winter was coming in slowly to the North East of Scotland . |
| 19 | Raymond Radiguet was a youth of 12 when Modigliani painted him , a brilliant schoolboy who had won a scholarship to a Paris Lycée and began coming in daily to the city from the suburbs . |
| 20 | ‘ Certainly , madam , ’ I said , coming back abruptly to the matter in hand and , realizing with a shock that she had already asked me once , I fetched her a knife fast . |
| 21 | And that was when we came , and we started hay-making along there to the man-killers we called him , of course there 's a better picture here and I 've got it here along with the man-killer we caught it up , and we 've got someone coming along behind . |
| 22 | May I remind him that the London Arts Board , which has just taken over from Greater London Arts , is settling down well to the work of funding arts associations throughout London . |