Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | We also get requests from work from the organisational review working party , which is a working party that 's erm basically looking to progress to the D M D , Decentralization of Microtization initiative . |
| 2 | You do , you got , Lee the other night , it 's like Lee last Monday , went on the work experience and Monday night it all came down it 's pouring , oh it 's alright he says , were only going to go to the Woking |
| 3 | It was all going to cease to be fun if she wanted any action out of him . |
| 4 | We 're all going to have to be very careful . |
| 5 | There has been such a growth in direct dealing that fish is only getting sent to Billingsgate when no one else wants it . ’ |
| 6 | We are only beginning to come to terms with it . |
| 7 | My hesitant companion said , ‘ May I drink to your health without necessarily wishing to listen to your conversation ? |
| 8 | Not only having gone to higher standards of were but also looking to account a motion which has already been passed by the Environment Committee on the fourteenth of September nineteen ninety three and what I was basically saying was that erm incinerator should come to That 's Life that the current E E C proposals on erm that that and I know that 's not a rule but in fact when Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of Pollution is actually considering this want to draw their attention to a motion which in some cases were saying that we would expect the highest possible standards if those developments were to go ahead with the . |
| 9 | So having diffused to the endoplasmic reticulum it can gate open the calcium channel , and this leads to an elevation of internal calcium , not from the external medium now , but from internal stores . |
| 10 | How did you feel about that yourself the , the way the machinery had changed er and your , your trade was obviously having to adapt to that ? |
| 11 | The significance is that , together , the two operated to remove an essential feature from the full description of Co-operation ; and in so doing to deny to the movement that function which it was uniquely able to discharge and which was , therefore , most likely to guarantee its growth and survival in perpetuity . |
| 12 | The philosophy maintains that it is up to you to take initiatives and through so doing to refuse to be bored . |
| 13 | What about learning how to change things for the better rather than merely learning to adapt to the way things are now ? |
| 14 | All loudspeaker drive units have an impedance characteristic which varies with frequency , thus normally presenting the amplifier with a complex load whose characteristics are constantly varying according to the music signal . |
| 15 | Any particle should be fished in the same way you fish with maggots or casters : feed a generous quantity into the swim initially , then little and often as the day wears on , the total quantity obviously varying according to how well the carp are feeding . |
| 16 | He had stood in the queue at Heathrow , a very new Condor on his back , eyeing others who were obviously preparing to go to warmer places than we were . |
| 17 | I 'm not saying that it is necessarily trivialising to talk to interviewees about their clothes , it 's just that you do n't find the male presenters on Rock Steady talking to Phil Collins about his suits ! |
| 18 | We can see him as it were constantly restraining his inventiveness , constantly trying to conform to an orthodox view against which his thoughts and emotions rebel , constantly trying to justify Chinese intelligence by dragging it a little nearer to some Western precedent . |
| 19 | For the hazard he now claims to recognise is essentially that which several of us have been patiently trying to explain to psychiatrists and others for the past twelve years or so and one which is now officially acknowledged in several overseas countries . |
| 20 | By a quirk of human nature most right-handed pilots want to turn left ( it 's all in the mind ) , while your clockwise-rotating , forward-flying helicopter is still stubbornly trying to yaw to the right ( Fig. 5.11 ) . |
| 21 | It was bad enough trying to get to a classroom and he knew if he had explored the corridors he would have been lost for certain . |
| 22 | The girls wept as they left the shop but soon they were eagerly planning to apply to one of the factories such as the Meccano which was now on war work . |
| 23 | Describes the clients in a pawnbroker 's shop in a squalid neighbourhood : a harridan , a drunken brute who abuses his pathetic wife , a genteel mother and daughter just becoming inured to poverty , a prostitute , and a drunken old woman ( ‘ Who shall say how soon these women may change places ? ’ ) . |
| 24 | She wore her parents out by nightly refusing to go to bed until they did ; whereupon she would sleep normally . |
| 25 | This is because Karnataka does not have to replace nuclear plants with alternative power sources , where the least environmentally damaging happens to be most expensive . |
| 26 | He said : ‘ I 've been told all the stories about how my dad used to stand in the Steering Wheel Club with half a pint of lager just waiting to talk to people and to worm his way into Formula One . |
| 27 | When in the same issue the journal reviewed Why Men Forget we are reminded of just how many social melodramas there were for this film showed a Socialist spokesman being discharged from a factory and ‘ denouncing wealth in no uncertain terms ’ before inheriting wealth and marrying a society girl and finally deciding to return to the poor folk from whence he came . |
| 28 | So you were just lying listening to music in between the chair and the couch ? |
| 29 | That sixties period and all the stories from the era were to play a massive role in Morrissey 's subsequent lyricism and his handling of The Smiths record sleeves : the stories , the Moors murders , Viv ( Spend , Spend , Spend ) Nicholson , Elsie Tanner ( the perfect Northern character so desperately attempting to escape to a better lifestyle ) , the stream of sixties Northern imagery films ( from The Family Way through Saturday Night and Sunday Morning to The Lovers ) and the countless left-overs from the Merseybeat era now parading their former moments of glory around working men 's clubs . |
| 30 | Yes I was just going to respond to Mr because we did actually discuss horse riding er o on the bridleway network along the footpath and er well I do hope that what Mr has said felt that he had has considering condoning people riding horses on the footpath are breaking the law . |