Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harvey was clowning around pretending to be a gunman , which was his way of being sarcastic to me . |
| 2 | And even in France , businesses , especially large ones , are becoming too demanding to be run by people without firsthand experience and a proven success record . |
| 3 | That is one point of view ; another is that these future Nobel laureates may in fact earn their prizes by bringing more supercomputing to science , and thus moving more of science into cyberspace . |
| 4 | The facts — that Chrissie has been caught taking food home , the higher than average food costs , etc. — show that things have n't been going entirely according to plan , but what are the causes ? |
| 5 | But when he thought he had reached the peak of his misery and was regretting ever coming to this place the rain started to slow and ease off . |
| 6 | After more adventures , the story ends up at another of Tom 's aunts , with Jim ( the nigger ) recaptured , Finn mistaken for Tom , and Tom turning up pretending to be his own brother ! |
| 7 | Plus er going up going to you know , all that . |
| 8 | So everything 's going really according to plan . |
| 9 | Neither will large doses of vitamin C. And rushing around trying to ‘ burn off ’ the alcohol is futile because muscles ca n't use alcohol directly . |
| 10 | Going around listening to the fat and the rich of the land confessing their secret sins , and secretly mocking us every time we reach a stone wall and can go no further ? |
| 11 | On one sunny afternoon , when running and feeding a platen-machine ( by hand ) and sweating profusely owing to the heat , the rattle of the front-door bell told me to attend the counter . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's difficult to understand why he might have been moving badly going to the start — perhaps it was the dirt or maybe it was because the heat was so intense . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ It 's difficult to understand why he might have been moving badly going to the start , perhaps it was the dirt or maybe it was the heat . ’ |
| 14 | Therefore , by the mid-1970s , Cramlington was proceeding much according to plan , with a number of firms being attracted to the area and the consequent job creation being associated with extensive housing developments by both the private and , public sectors . |
| 15 | She got out of bed too early , so the story goes , because there was so much washing piling up belonging to all the family , as well as me . |
| 16 | All very worrying , especially since the only sleep I lost in the real Gulf War was in staying up listening to late-night doomsday discussions on Channel 4 . |
| 17 | Control : Keep watering evenly according to growing conditions . |
| 18 | Speculation — and that 's all it is — says maybe it 's the scalability of the software that 's holding back going to all twenty engines : Sun promises system software will improve by release date . |
| 19 | In all this discussion , whether I am moving round talking to pairs of students at work or talking to the whole group , I see my role as provoking thought and reflection , not as telling students what to think or do . |
| 20 | Erm so how much time are you spending just going to the school ? |
| 21 | These are powered by expansion , opening and closing automatically according to the temperature . |
| 22 | If the Community 's protectionism was met by US retaliation , the EC would lose $132 billion and the US $64 billion a year , while proving particularly damaging to the economies of Eastern Europe . |
| 23 | But he 's eating well going to the loo alright . |
| 24 | Langbaurgh Constituency Labour Party is calling on Labour councils to unite against moves towards super regional police forces and any suggestion of handing over policing to private security firms . |
| 25 | But if within modern languages ( to keep , for the moment , to this example ) a candidate for the GCSE were permitted to offer , as part of the evidence that went towards his certificate , the grades he had achieved in tests , starting from the most elementary and progressing upwards according to his ability , the ‘ differentiation ’ problem would be virtually solved . |
| 26 | On the contrary , there was attempts to the life of our Emir during the Iraq/Iran war because we were taking relatively trying to be neutral there , and there was a bomb attack on him , and he personally survived it , a few others died , and it had to do directly with the Iran/Iraq war . |
| 27 | And they 're just hanging there waiting to presumably do something quite nasty . |
| 28 | She ai n't looking at it — she 's carrying on talking to the man , but she keeps twisting the neck of this white duck . |
| 29 | ‘ She 's sitting down talking to those two men . ’ |
| 30 | The verbatim records have survived almost intact and enable the sequence of offers and counteroffers that should be made by bargainers behaving optimally according to the rules . |