Example sentences of "[coord] [v-ing] to [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That had seemed natural to Stephen , the way things should be : his father working and then emerging from his work , all three of them walking on the beach , or walking to Badstoneleigh to go to the Pavilion , or having tea on Stephen 's birthday in the Spinning Wheel , or going to see Somerset play . |
| 2 | I do n't know , I do n't know and she 's still really madly in love with Dan or according to Paula . |
| 3 | We returned to our chamber and spent the rest of the day preparing for the banquet or listening to Doctor Agrippa . |
| 4 | He was happy telling his own stories or listening to Orton 's . |
| 5 | All the pain of Fulham leaving Only you can heal , If you can sit down with our Chairman And work out a deal ; Surely leasing or selling to Fulham would be very sound , Instead of being owners of a derelict ground . |
| 6 | Mm , or going to Paris on the honeymoon ! |
| 7 | We have had a very good year , thanks to the indefatigable Bugs sitting behind me , who is either fitting the boats out or going to New Zealand to win races or taking Guide Dogs for the Blind sponsored trips round greek flotillas er everything comes to him readily . |
| 8 | Well yes , but do n't we all use artificial aids of one kind or another ; try eating your dinner without a knife and fork or going to Australia without an aeroplane . |
| 9 | Vanguard was breaking up and its supporters were either rejoining the Unionist Party or moving to Paisley 's DUP , which was consolidating its position as the more militant and more populist loyalist party . |
| 10 | She longed to be close to her mother , or talking to Louise or cycling up the drive towards the grim yews of Seaton Cramer Hall and the warm welcome of Miss Hatherby . |
| 11 | It was just as well Kenneth 's phone was n't engaged because , presumably , if he 'd been chatting to John Major about the situation in the Middle East , or talking to David Mellor about fun , poor old Johan would have been chucked out of the country . |
| 12 | The queen 's popularity soared still further when , on 9 April 1713 , she was able to announce to Parliament the final signature , two days before , of the Treaty of Utrecht , restoring peace to Europe and bringing to Great Britain such solid benefits as the destruction of the fortifications of Dunkirk and the retention of Gibraltar as a British possession . |
| 13 | Corcoran is winding down his business in Santa Monica and relocating to New York , while the team is completed with the appointment of Jennifer Vorbach , lured from Citibank 's Art Advisory Services , as gallery director . |
| 14 | I was saying to myself where 's it gone , where 's it gone , and praying to God , praying to God , and my thoughts went to the family for a few minutes . |
| 15 | Paul Sillitoe says they 'll be away for a month and walking to Everest base Camp … and he 's looking forward to it |
| 16 | Tea with Madame Rochard sometimes , and walking to Miss Lucchesi 's and back , and those two hours that go by like water flowing through a sieve . |
| 17 | The last page needs completing and returning to Helena Moore . |
| 18 | Arguments within his congregation in Stenness , however , led to his demitting his post and returning to Edinburgh . |
| 19 | Mrs Jamieson will be travelling from Edinburgh to Leeds , departing from Edinburgh on Wednesday 8 September 1993 at 1.00 pm and returning to Edinburgh on Thursday 9 September 1993 , departing from Leeds at 6.49 pm . |
| 20 | These remained and the following sequence over a month all proved ineffective although she commented that she felt 20 years younger : Lachesis LM3 , stopping the remedy , Lachesis 200 , Syphilinum LM1 and returning to Lachesis LM3 . |
| 21 | The popularity of the Festival Land Cruise train in 1951 , which ran a circular route from Llandudno to Rhyl , where it reversed , then on to Denbigh , Corwen , Barmough , where a ninety minute break was taken , returning via Harlech , Afonwen , Caernarfon and Bangor to Llandudno , was such that the following year a second train was introduced , following the same route but starting from , and returning to Rhyl . |
| 22 | Walkers on the Three Peaks marathon usually start from Horton in Ribblesdale and do the journey anti-clockwise , visiting Penyghent , Whernside and Ingleborough in that order and returning to Horton from the last named by a route that approximates to a beeline . |
| 23 | So after a brief visit to Balmoral in the summer , Diana soon established a pattern of leaving Charles to it and returning to London and her friends . |
| 24 | From these diaries we know that Minton made between two and four visits to ‘ Marshalls ’ every year up until 1954 , staying usually a couple of nights and returning to London with sheaves of drawings . |
| 25 | By Thursday he was considering aborting the venture altogether and returning to Hobart . |
| 26 | She preferred the hazards of local naval hospitals to leaving her husband and returning to England for each birth , but the strain of pregnancy in hot climates and the diversion of her own children made her willing to billet the older two on their aunt whenever it was convenient . |
| 27 | But after dumping their loads and returning to Camp 3 at 24,000ft , the Darc Star team 's problems had only begun . |
| 28 | His grants were cancelled by the new regime and he pursued his career elsewhere , settling initially in Bruges and returning to Portugal in 1487 . |
| 29 | This is done either by opening each program in turn and returning to DOSShell without exiting the program , or by selecting the program whilst holding the SHIFT key . |
| 30 | By the time of his retirement in 1767 , Barclay 's firm was ‘ the first house in their business ’ ( ibid. , note 9 ) , owning ships , and trading to New York , Pennsylvania , the Chesapeake , and the West Indies . |