Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | A great deal of Thomas 's trade had passed through the hands of Spencer Grenfell who seemed to have trouble bringing in payment to her father on time . |
| 2 | Wimbledon followed suit a little later by opening up competition to professional tennis players . |
| 3 | He was one of the pioneers in opening up archaeology to everyone , both through his books and through radio and television appearances . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , it squarely embodies an assumption that causal laws are correlations , thus ruling out reference to structures and structural forces to explain the correlations . |
| 5 | But the police lost out at Newforge Lane on Tuesday evening , going down 1– to Queen 's . |
| 6 | Cos that 's , we go to Newark then Grantham going down south to me mum 's we go all that way . |
| 7 | But it is more likely that Treasury officials are just sounding out reaction to possible measures . |
| 8 | The resort is now only ¾ hour travelling distance from the M56 Motorway which links with the M6 , leading either south to Birmingham and London and the south-west or North to Glasgow and Edinburgh . |
| 9 | Many drivers were thinking twice about carrying out risky manoeuvres such as doing 90 miles an hour down the motorway even though such speeds benefited society in speeding up access to distant parts . |
| 10 | This is n't a man I 've got pitching up hay to me , it 's a flipping machine ! ’ |
| 11 | WFP makes the statement that the RMI will be ‘ extended and accelerated ’ with the aim of building up coverage to those units by the end of 1991/92 , ie March 1992 . |
| 12 | The reform of the national insurance system advocated here will also lead to all workers building up entitlement to national insurance benefits . |
| 13 | The most common of these is the high incidence of arthritic and rheumatic problems ; other specific examples include blindness and neurological problems associated with long-term diabetes ; chronic pain resulting from building up immunity to certain drugs , such as morphine ( various groups ) ; chronic respiratory problems caused by spinal deformity ( scoliosis ) ; and a variety of physiological problems coming under the heading of ‘ post-polio syndrome ’ . |
| 14 | What the apparatus ‘ sees ’ is the decay of the Z o into an electron and a positron ( an antielectron ) flying off back to back from the point of the collision . |
| 15 | This makes Britain in autumn a very special place as a staging post for birds flying further south to the Mediterranean and Africa and as a winter home for many others . |
| 16 | But I 'm really looking forward to moving back north to Scotland when the job 's done . ’ |
| 17 | The most usual method of sending out information to more than a few broadcasting stations or publications is by post . |
| 18 | For all the talk , dishing out control to individuals has its limits . |
| 19 | At the grand age of 74 , Mr Schmidt has appointed himself Germany 's agony-aunt and scold , dishing out advice to politicians left and right . |
| 20 | Drummer Simon Smith , who replaced Charman at the beginning of 1988 , deals with much of the tedious organisation like booking hotels and ferries , sorting out transport to and from concerts , and driving . |
| 21 | ‘ The DUC operated as a kind of umbrella organization and there was a little group in all the different localities where uranium prospecting was going on … and each of these groups had their own little committee of two or three people who were feeding back information to the DUC and it was a real grassroots organization then . ’ |
| 22 | The link nurses meet regularly , take a special interest in , and strive to enhance , DN expertise in leg ulcer management by feeding back information to all DNs in their patches . |
| 23 | Months before , bringing back life to the earth . |
| 24 | Because we are conditioned to thinking of retirement as a time for settling into a new home , many people up sticks without perhaps giving enough thought to such essentials as proximity to family and friends and whether a different area would provide the same scope for pursuing their interests . |
| 25 | In two-road Dinsdale , the only crossroads was where the Roman road running straight north to Sadberge from the Tees was intersected by the east-west lane joining Stockton and Darlington . |
| 26 | But he blew his chances when he said that giving up sovereignty to the European Commission was like giving in to Hitler . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm content to go into the army , and I 'm definitely against giving up territory to the Arabs . ’ |
| 28 | They feared that well-meaning people giving out money to the poor would merely encourage the ‘ non-deserving ’ poor to pursue their lazy and irresponsible ways . |
| 29 | So I have Posi the go-ahead , and we surged out through the Valve , coming almost face to face with the two ships . |
| 30 | But whereas caricature depends on paring down character to exaggerated essentials , acting conveys shades , nuances and inconsistencies . |