Example sentences of "[pron] [v-ing] [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those are rocks and you are sitting on them gazing out to sea . |
| 2 | THE danger of trying to limp to safety on goalless draws was graphically illustrated by Coventry 's last-gasp defeat which could have them hanging on to the last day of the season before knowing their fate . |
| 3 | Coventry slumped to a last-gasp 1–0 defeat at Notts County which could have them hanging on to the last day of the season before knowing their fate . |
| 4 | I spent a little while there and enjoyed a helicopter trip for the very first time , although not without considerable trepidation having once or twice seen pictures of them whizzing down to the ground in pieces . |
| 5 | Family historians very soon become aware of the rather bizarre and uncanny way in which people 's lives can bring them circling back to places which have strong connexions with their own forgotten ancestry . |
| 6 | No point in me hanging on to the stuff , cos the baby 's grown out of it , that 's it , is n't it ? |
| 7 | A false report of a bid for Williams Holdings by the Barclay brothers sent its shares leaping 55p to 280p before denials saw them crashing back to 239p . |
| 8 | A false report of a bid for Williams Holdings by the Barclay brothers sent its shares leaping 55p to 280p before denials saw them crashing back to 239p . |
| 9 | You would n't catch me walking back to the house alone at night . |
| 10 | They were beings like Miach , a crowd of them walking down to the shore from the forest . |
| 11 | " Nice to hear of someone hanging on to their old family possessions . |
| 12 | We were taken the few miles out to Wyton by RAF transport and in a short time , smiling falsely at each other and with our cumbersome parachutes bumping round our legs , we found ourselves walking out to the plane for our first flight . |
| 13 | When I changed buses there was just time to get the sweets and bananas — the bananas were very good today ; and on the other bus there was a nice driver who said that if I sat near the front he would let me off at the crossing if he was held up in the traffic , instead of my going on to the bus stop and having to walk back ; because of the rain . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Since I left , there has been talk about my going back to Celtic , but that will never happen . ’ |
| 15 | But he was evidently even less happy than Dottie about my going back to what he referred to with thinly veiled distaste as " that place " . |
| 16 | The whole point is what am I going on to , I 'm going for free are n't I ? |
| 17 | No way was I going back to that house . |
| 18 | The ‘ female ’ could be a female impersonator , or someone in disguise , or an actor on the way to a theatre ; the ‘ angry ’ or ‘ excited ’ person could be deaf , or someone calling out to a friend some distance away . |
| 19 | the rate last week and every time she she has to stay in bed like you know , someone rings up , she says , Maureen says get up because someone coming round to your house . |
| 20 | The company participates in nearly a score of such ventures , some of them dating back to the 1930s . |
| 21 | A total of 9.4 per cent , equivalent to 33,000 miles , were destroyed during the period 1984-90 , some of them dating back to Anglo-Saxon times . |
| 22 | He imagined himself walking up to her and presenting her with a single red rose . |
| 23 | A footfall behind her made her turn , and she gasped to see the gentleman himself walking up to her . |
| 24 | Unable to accept again the superstitions he had discarded , nevertheless with time and misfortune he found himself turning back to the three deities who had guided his early life , and helped him through his harsh apprenticeship as a scribe : the reasonable Thoth , ibis-headed , god of the scribes ; Horus , son of Osiris ; and the protector of the hearth , Bes — the little god of his childhood . |
| 25 | Its reaching out to the people who 've not been through the processes that we 've been through and are still attached to ideas that are in essence racist , imperialist , sexist , heterosexist , and how we , nevertheless , draw those people into activity . |
| 26 | It is easy to see how the plot of We Did n't Mean To Go To Sea hatched , as he looked out into the distance and remembered a time when as a young man his anchor had dragged , and he had found himself sailing out to sea at night . |
| 27 | Using his Leicester home as an office , he found himself working up to 80 hours a week , corresponding with people in America , Australia and all over Europe . |
| 28 | so , erm , they rang and they rang , and they rang for a good twenty to twenty five minutes and we just erm , we , we all huddled together in the living room , and erm , anyway about half an hour went past , and then they finally went , we saw them , we live in a flat , and we saw them from the window , we saw them going back to the station you see . |
| 29 | Dentdale is superb walking country : the high ridge walks along Rise Hill and Barbon Fell are amongst the best in the Dales , while lower down , the Dales Way long-distance path follows the river for much of its length into Sedbergh , and some of the wooded gills like Flinter Gill , which arc a typical feature of Dentdale , have footpaths along them leading on to the fells or on to the old packhorse routes . |
| 30 | We had to keep them heading out to sea as long as possible , so that we could fully clear it on our return tack . |