Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Fao area was repaired to the extent that it was possible for loading to be resumed at a restored Mina al-Bakr terminal . |
| 2 | Well I 've got to make you look respectable for going to bed with , have n't I ? |
| 3 | There is something decidedly odd about objecting to it that the mere psychological fact that one alternative is more pleasant than another can not by itself be a reason for choosing it . |
| 4 | ‘ I did not feel guilty about having to be kicked up the arse . |
| 5 | It will be nice but I feel awfully guilty about agreeing to it … |
| 6 | Many women these days feel rather guilty about admitting to loneliness . |
| 7 | Very refreshing after listening to two terms of this death-of-the-author stuff . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ If they can do that , I do n't think they 'd be too bothered about getting to Kimblesworth . ’ |
| 9 | Was , was everybody embarrassed about going to the pawnbrokers or did n't did n't some people |
| 10 | I 've got ta be real careful about listening to tapes before I go out there , so I do n't put on something too far out . ’ |
| 11 | The soft laugh reassured Charles to some degree , but something must be wrong about writing to Charity . |
| 12 | Engineering is a professional subject and the BEng and MEng degrees offered in the School are all accredited by the appropriate Professional Engineering Institution as acceptable for leading to the status of Chartered Engineer . |
| 13 | That occurred although Lord Morison , the Court of Session judge who issued the new decree , made it absolutely clear after listening to all the evidence , that he did not consider any of the allegations made by Mr Vafa 's former wife , or her father , to have been well founded or substantiated . |
| 14 | At the time of the Agadir crisis , he had declared bombastically that it was ‘ high time this insolent clique in Paris should be made once more to feel what a Pomeranian Grenadier can do ’ He edited a book for children , entitled ‘ Germany in Arms ’ , glorifying war , and was fond of speaking to German youth about the forthcoming ‘ happy — cheerful war ’ whatever that meant . |
| 15 | So erm I 'm you kn I do n't propose to do that again because I would n't er I would n't arrange a speaker if we had a full table show but it 's nice to know that it did work out because we were , I was forced into a corner a little bit erm and I think it was worth it because we as I say I 've waited a long time for Danny and he was well worth listening to , I can listen to Danny for hours because he he just speaks and , and tells you about his fish , I 'm , I 'm very very fond of listening to Danny cos I think he gives a good talk . |
| 16 | Writers about midlife are fond of referring to the empty nest syndrome , much to the annoyance of feminists , who deplore the notion that women need children to bolster their sense of self-worth . |
| 17 | For long periods throughout my childhood I was afraid of going to sleep , afraid of the extinction brought by sleep . |
| 18 | Being afraid of going to hell after you die is one . |
| 19 | May I help you by suggesting that if you could persuade the Prime Minister to fix the election date now there would be no need for this pre-election period — if the Prime Minister would stop shilly-shallying because he is afraid of going to the country . |
| 20 | If you are afraid of talking to a crowd , remember that this is not a crowd of strangers , but a crowd of friends . |
| 21 | Partly it was pride ; I could n't countenance exposing all that I was feeling ; but — and I know this does n't mitigate anything , but perhaps it balances the self-interest , self-protection or whatever it was — even then I was also still afraid of succumbing to the temptation to use the power I sensed I could have over you , and the use would have been abuse . ’ |
| 22 | Teachers need not be afraid of explaining to pupils their reasons for wanting them to carry out a certain piece of investigatory work . |
| 23 | ‘ Anyway , what 's so wrong with going to the lavatory ? |
| 24 | ‘ But note that this is quite different from attributing to the Church in its established structures the dignity of being the Kingdom of Christ . |
| 25 | It was quite different from going to school in London . |
| 26 | Clearly , listening to a Robert Johnson record now , in Britain , is very different from dancing to him playing live in a black bar in Mississippi in 1936 ; and there are probably consequential differences in the music itself , too ( for example , Johnson would at the very least be constrained by the time-limits imposed by the record form — as all musicians , even to some extent on LPs , are ; thus , in some ways a Duke Ellington concert , in a ‘ bourgeois ’ concert hall , using written parts , might turn out a more ‘ oral ’ experience than the same piece encapsulated on a twelve-inch record ) . |
| 27 | It did n't seem any different from talking to a real person . |
| 28 | It is clear in talking to Walter , as he nears the end of his career , that while he has greatly enjoyed his job working with students , he is saddened by the fact that prospects for young people are not very promising at the present time . |
| 29 | He listened to a baseball update and waited for the sponsor 's commercial before turning to her . |
| 30 | This is a matter which is particularly in the province of the justices who are deciding the case after hearing five days of evidence and it is impossible to suggest , in my judgment , that they were wrong in coming to the conclusion that the children ought not to be separated . |