Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dual carriageway is just of the motorway and people are gearing up to go on the motorway . |
| 2 | It 's the window he 's stepping through to wave to the crowd . |
| 3 | He slammed into a wall , his head snapping back to crack against the plaster , then he fell forward . |
| 4 | The commotion caused a young couple passing by to go into the gallery to have a closer look at the paintings . |
| 5 | Very often pupils will benefit from the opportunity to see and handle , and discuss a few selected artefacts at close hand , before going on to work in the display galleries . |
| 6 | The position with regard to face-to-face transactions is considered first , before going on to look at the position in relation to impersonal stock market deals . |
| 7 | Before going on to look at the Government 's proposals in detail , we want to underline our serious concern over the threat to strategic minerals planning associated with the proposed reorganisation of local government in Wales . |
| 8 | If you 're thinking of going along to join in the fun , there 's something going on every day and evening until next Friday night . |
| 9 | and I I was rushing down to get to the stair . |
| 10 | The first pilots to send Luftwaffe bombers spiralling down to crash into the sea were boys , auxiliary pilots who until a few months before had been flying antiquated Gloster Gladiators . |
| 11 | I concede that the current recession and the Government 's mismanagement of the economy have a part to play in the fact that prestige projects are not lining up to locate in the bay . |
| 12 | BURIAL costs in Middlesbrough are going up to pay for the installation of cameras in flats overlooking cemeteries . |
| 13 | By now she was awake enough to feel a stab of regret that she would n't be going out to glide over the surface of that calm blue water after all . |
| 14 | They will vouch that I stayed here , doing-accounts , going out to look at the carving which were being made for the pageant for the king 's coronation . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I was starting to make the Sunday dinner and Brian said he was going out to play in the park . |
| 16 | Charlie 's going out to check on the territory and strike up a deal . |
| 17 | I 'm going back to live in the studio , Klein . |
| 18 | I had become more and more interested in the business world , going back to work at the bank in Newcastle during my vacations , so I was looking for a general business career . ’ |
| 19 | Turning back to look at the door , he could see no manual locking mechanism — only a circular brass inset that seemed to need a special key . |
| 20 | He was turning about to look at the view and the slope of grass back up to the road . |
| 21 | Uncle Mick found it difficult getting down to kneel for the Consecration . |
| 22 | Heart-beat slowing , the blood oozing from three holes in his body , spreading out to mingle with the drying milk , the gleaming shards of glass . |
| 23 | The father was just moving round to sit at the head of the table when the mother came sweeping out of the kitchen carrying a huge plate piled high with eggs and sausages and bacon and tomatoes . |
| 24 | She cut through the heady memories and concentrated her mind on what Steve was saying while she watched a superb glossy white yacht coming in to berth at the jetty not fifty metres from the window of the restaurant . |
| 25 | Dave Crabb is coming over to help with the design and building chores . |
| 26 | ‘ And it keeps getting bigger and bigger , and so we keep coming back to complain about the size of the hotels and the lousy service , and STOP PUTTING CUCUMBER AND BUTTER ON MY F***ING SANDWICHES ! |
| 27 | ‘ People are coming back to work in the office downstairs from Monday , you know . |
| 28 | Erm thank you Mr Mayor , erm I 'm taking up to speak about the community arts . |
| 29 | ‘ And you 're not having this dress , ’ Nora said , bending down to look at the price tag . |
| 30 | In some of his experiments the rats were rolling along to get to the food in the goal-box . |