Example sentences of "[vb past] to [v-ing] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A DARLINGTON woman who failed to supply exotic food hampers tried to creating some food parcels of her own , a court heard yesterday . |
| 2 | Philip knew he was thinking about the swimming , the way he objected to spending all his time training and how he tried to get out of it . |
| 3 | Also , with Bush committed to opposing both bills , Republicans in Congress were anxious to enable him to avoid the political embarrassment of vetoing them just before the presidential election . |
| 4 | They nearly came to scratching each other because Janice says they 've only got an old banger . |
| 5 | In fact we had made three other variations on the theme before we came to making this piece so there was really no excuse for getting it wrong , but we did . |
| 6 | Derek 's previous experience of dealing with the police amounted to clarifying some technical points for the Fraud Squad when a client of Fithyan & Co. was arrested for tax evasion . |
| 7 | Another Toyota official in the USA referred to the project as ‘ Yuki 's dream ’ and downplayed the company 's part in it , though he admitted to knowing few details . |
| 8 | Curtis , who admitted to getting some help from doubles partner and defending champion , Ian Schuback , now faces McCann . |
| 9 | They never got to sorting those out . |
| 10 | Martin Martin notes that on a small rocky island to the south of Skye there is ‘ a great quantity of scurvey-grass , of an extraordinary size , and very thick ; the natives eat it frequently , as well boiled as raw : two of them told me that they happened to be confined there for the space of thirty hours , by a contrary wind ; and being without victuals , fell to eating this scurvey-grass , and finding it of a sweet taste , far different from the land scurvey-grass , they ate a large basketful of it , which did abundantly satisfy their appetites until their return home ’ . |
| 11 | Distracted from my course in self-improvement , I mixed myself a brutal martini and fell to pondering such juxtapositions . |
| 12 | Particularly in the streets that have undergone a great deal of change since the war , like the street where I live myself , which is another thing that prompted me to , to go into the research in the first place , which is erm a house of small Victorian erm I believe the estate agents call them artisans ' cottages , and this kind of area which , there 's a great deal of this sort of property in Brighton , has undergone enormous changes since the war from being multi-occupied before the war , with one family on each floor , were regarded immediately after the war as slums and were scheduled for demolition , but they 've been a great lease of life all over the country , this sort of property , and been subjected to a process which has come to be known as gentrification , which has meant that when the middle class could n't afford to , to buy semi-detached in suburbs they took to buying this kind of smaller property in town centres , thereby introducing a whole new element into streets that had never seen these , this kind of things done to houses before . |
| 13 | He took to hiding some secret supplies of his own in his desk . |
| 14 | My roommate Chris took to feeding these animals other comb jellies , and delighted in watching Beroe ‘ snarf up ’ the other jellyfish . |
| 15 | She took to drinking more than she should , and most nights she would cry herself to sleep , thinking of what might have been . |
| 16 | I generally type all his notes , reports and correspondence , but , during the summer , he took to typing such items which related to Heather himself . ’ |
| 17 | I took to spending more time with my mother again , rather than shutting myself up in my caravan . |
| 18 | She took to spending more time at Bush House , playing for very little except the chance to gossip in her native language . |
| 19 | He took to spending more time than before at the Hankses ' cottage and his relationship with Carrie was an uncomplicated , comfortable one . |
| 20 | He reversed some of the laws on language and education which discriminated against Tamils , and took to visiting some of the Tamils ' Hindu temples , even attempting the odd public statement in Tamil . |
| 21 | Because I wanted to having another one but I |