Example sentences of "[adv prt] [v-ing] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In retirement I hope my company will provide me with an office and a secretary , so that I can go on contributing to society from my experience . |
| 2 | The individual would move up or down according to merit . |
| 3 | Nearly everyone came down according to plan , but Sgt Paul Flood surprised everyone by missing the drop zone and coming down behind the crowd . |
| 4 | Would you carry on going to church ? |
| 5 | Was n't there a tiny nagging feeling on watching the re-runs of Butterflies that perhaps he would have been better off sticking to television comedy series and enjoying their rich rewards ? |
| 6 | There are two common types both of which can be switched on or off according to need . |
| 7 | Yeah but the thing is you 're better off going to Gateway first . |
| 8 | Mary is very sorry that she has to put off coming to dinner tonight They are not sure about getting a baby-sitter . |
| 9 | Even today excavation reports treat artefacts as separate entities neatly divided up according to material from which they were made , i.e. gold , silver , lead , bronze , tin , iron , ivory , bone , jet , shale , stone , then followed by coins , samian decorated , samian plain , samian stamps , amphora stamps , mortaria stamps and coarse wares . |
| 10 | Alternatively , where such territories were too small and scattered , as in many colonised archipelagos , they were combined or broken up according to convenience or local politics . |
| 11 | An alternative method of maintaining business confidence in cross-border transactions is to provide for the establishment of EC companies , which would be formed and wound up according to Community rules rather than the rules of any particular member state . |
| 12 | ‘ I grew up listening to jazz , ’ explains Meier , ‘ because the Swiss charts were always full of silly songs . ’ |
| 13 | Smack , smack and you end up going to school to pick up the wreckage anyway . |
| 14 | ‘ I completely messed myself up going to altitude . |
| 15 | ‘ I completely messed up going to altitude ’ |
| 16 | In a more general sense I am fascinated by some of the things you 've just mentioned in your introduction , the question of continuity in German history , how we , how this marvellous nation , the nation of Beethoven and Wagner and Marx and Freud , actually finishes up going to war twice against its European neighbours , and in the Second World War in particular committing these awful atrocities . |
| 17 | Your poor visitors had come miles , had to wait to be taken from the prison gate to the gym , and then had to queue up waiting to hand in a bunch of flowers or something trivial , and then it all had to be signed for , then the screws came over to your table and you had to sign for it . |
| 18 | Candy was brought up dancing to soul and reggae from the age of six in Ladbroke Grove . |
| 19 | ( No , I was n't born then ) : at Comdex/Spring in Atlanta yesterday , our man on the spot , Chris Rose was geared to send stories from his laptop straight back to our server — until on deadline , he found all phone lines from Atlanta were busy ( shame on you , BellSouth Corp ) and ended up having to low-tech fax it back using a direct facsimile line . |
| 20 | In this case the crystals in the chamber settle out according to size and density . |
| 21 | The Stone of Destiny was in alien hands , but in other respects the coronation ceremony on 25 March 1306 was carried out according to tradition . |
| 22 | Our pulses were quickened soon enough by a seductive menu and a wine list laid out according to grape and price by someone who has sipped well from major world producers and made some rare finds on the way . |