Example sentences of "[adv] to [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mornings had indeed developed into quite a happy routine of little errands and duties for Aunt Emily , the hens and the sea ; and if she felt now , as quite often she did , an incomprehensible longing for something wilder and freer and more satisfying than this domestic round , she put it down to needing to be in the open air more and gave herself , next morning , a longer spell on the smooth buff sands of the bay . |
| 2 | It was worse than before , when he had taken her so powerfully into his arms and she had felt him thieve unresisting kisses from her lips , for now he was playing with her heart , not just her senses , and it was , she found , a vulnerable organ , halfway to belonging to him already . |
| 3 | The thing is , I mean we 're hardly to getting to grips with other people . |
| 4 | What we are suggesting is that such an education does not add up to learning to be independent , to participating in and contributing to one 's own community , either as a child or later as an adult , as the aims of education purport . |
| 5 | ‘ It does n't necessarily add up to going to bed . ’ |
| 6 | However , these bars are n't always clearly defined , particularly the ones on the caudal peduncle , so it is back to counting to be sure . |
| 7 | Going back to seeing to looking at the erm goods shed . |
| 8 | Bunny saw me and gave me a brief nod , then went back to talking to a young black dude wearing a blue trenchcoat and nursing a colour-co-ordinated Filofax . |
| 9 | When he finally got around to writing to Jardine on 9 September , it was with only a cursory description of his achievements . |
| 10 | You are warned that cats do not take kindly to walking to heel like a dog , and prefer to walk alongside you . |
| 11 | He was only missing from Palace line-ups from that time as a result of injury or illness , though his playing record demonstrates that he was prone to neither , and it was while we had Billy Callender in goal that Palace came closest to returning to Division 2 in 1928–29 , when we finished as runners-up to Charlton on goal average . |
| 12 | It was in meeting him on this ground that the British came closest to responding to him as a worthy adversary . |
| 13 | A SICK Bosnian boy took a step closer to fleeing to Britain for specialist treatment after a fund-raising balloon race was a soar-away success . |
| 14 | We asked them to the meeting and we look forward to listening to you later on in the agenda . |
| 15 | She looks forward to relocating to Leeds with the NHS Management Executive in 1992 . |
| 16 | She has already been on holiday to Portugal and is looking forward to moving to Cambridge to be near her daughters and grandchildren . |
| 17 | But I 'm looking forward to getting to Europe to promote it there . |
| 18 | Whether you require help with the entire event or would just like to use one of our discotheques we look forward to speaking to you . |
| 19 | We have been able to resume many former activities and look forward to going to France again , as we have done a number of times , and stay in a tiny village in the mountains of Provence . |
| 20 | I then said that I had always looked forward to going to the Board of Education . |
| 21 | We looked forward to going to the theatre every evening . |
| 22 | But for the first time , shortly before his death , he had stopped looking forward to going to work . |
| 23 | ‘ But I am very disappointed as I was looking forward to going to the West Indies and seeing what promised to be a great series . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Anyway , I am looking forward to going to court — so there ! ’ |
| 25 | His frankly delighted countenance spurred her on to effort : ‘ I myself , ’ she heard herself saying , ‘ am very much looking forward to going to Japan for the first time . |
| 26 | Now that she was free to choose , Ianthe looked forward to going to the same church every Sunday and finding her place in the congregation . |
| 27 | I had been looking forward to going to what I called ‘ big school ’ . |
| 28 | The situation did n't improve much during the rest of the week and for the first time since Rachel had been working at OBEX she found herself not looking forward to going to work in the mornings . |
| 29 | The whole family was looking forward to going to the United States . |
| 30 | White collar representatives add they ’ look forward to talking to the new management and will be discussing job security and concerns over investment and training . ’ |