Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arizona , according to one columnist , E.J. Montini , ‘ is like the kid who stole his parents ' car and is out careering on to other people 's lawns , crashing into garbage cans and running red lights . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I intend hanging on to junior for a while longer yet , but I 'll let you know . ’ |
| 3 | A route not to take unless you know no fear , is to walk straight up the sweeping southern flanks of the hill , which will leave you giddy and hanging on to craggy , near-vertical terrain with your teeth . |
| 4 | Along the length of the coast the story was now everywhere the same : Allied troops hanging on to vulnerable footholds , saved from annihilation only by their dogged courage . |
| 5 | The face was grinning , cheekless , with an eye hanging on to bare bone , glistening raw meat where great tooth marks showed clearly it had been half eaten . |
| 6 | The Ego revels in guilt , since it is a way of clinging to the past , and hanging on to old payoffs . |
| 7 | Just like throwing out old-fashioned clothes and hanging on to old favourites , we decide to stop using those actions that did n't get us what we wanted and to continue to use those that did . |
| 8 | Ca n't really see the point of hanging on to old grudges at this late stage . ’ |
| 9 | One of the occupied tables contained a man and woman and child , tucking in to great slabs of meat . |
| 10 | This allows the machine-chisel to shuffle back and forth , stepping down to full depth . |
| 11 | Once again , the Ian Charleson Memorial Award — named after another of the University 's graduates , who portrayed Liddell in the film ‘ Chariots of Fire ’ — will be presented to the participants contributing most to cross-cultural links . |
| 12 | For as a girl , she herself had been taken through the world , as through a series of doors , by her young husband , each door opening on to fresh joys and colours and perspectives , and she had exclaimed in delight , followed him , learned , and even afterwards , when the final door had shut , she could retrace her steps , spend a longer and longer time in each place , as in a series of gardens , and gratefully . |
| 13 | Clearly the range of the Act is very limited , applying only to lucid adult patients connected or about to be connected to a ventilator who are suffering from a terminal condition ( as defined ) and who execute the appropriate directive.33 A first step , however , has been taken in clarifying the law . |
| 14 | Doorways and walls and even the chapel belfry are adorned with dates and inscriptions relating not to national events and national heroes but to local ‘ statesmen ’ of past generations . |
| 15 | Birds nesting close to artificial light are conned into thinking that night is actually day . |
| 16 | After end of lake turn right up ridge : a tough path is marked with cairns to begin with , but make your own way , keeping close to steep slope on right , up to summit ( a stiffish scramble ) ( b ) 7 . |
| 17 | So Western experts were soon jetting off to poor countries to run surveys and design massive family planning programmes . |
| 18 | Magnetic storms occurring close to solar maximum are often isolated events because the solar disturbances responsible for them are intense but shortlived . |
| 19 | From this mockery they are unable to set free the immortal soul , even after it has attained wisdom , and believe it to be proceeding unceasingly to false blessedness and returning unceasingly to true misery … . |
| 20 | ‘ Some years ago , Eritel had a captive market , but that 's opening up to non-state owned companies , ’ he said . |
| 21 | Indications of the lasting potential of workwear comes with the news that the traditional companies are now opening up to new design suggestions coming from the UK . |
| 22 | With regard to what he said about Stratford school , if he had taken rather more interest in the school when it was in the control of Newham and insisted on the school keeping up to reasonable standards and if he now put pressure on Newham LEA to ensure that it raised standards in schools , he would be doing more for his constituents than he is by his performance today . |
| 23 | If you put yourself in each prisoner 's place , assuming both to be motivated by rational self-interest and remembering that they can not talk to one another to make a pact , you will see that neither has any choice but to betray the other , thereby condemning both to heavy sentences . |
| 24 | In Hamble village , their first precious spare hours were spent not in the pubs but in the Tesco 's supermarket watching shoppers walking up to overburdened shelves and putting all manner of goods in their baskets . ’ |
| 25 | In the earlier years , however , it was the first and the third that he most tended to emphasise — the otherness of God , and the impossibility of climbing up to true knowledge of him by our own efforts — so that even today his thought is widely interpreted as essentially negative , as circling ever around God 's ‘ No ! ’ to human presumption . |
| 26 | The importance of behaviour matching up to assertive messages can not be over-emphasised . |
| 27 | separate legal rules applying differently to different types of credit transaction should be replaced by a single set of rules covering equally all forms of ‘ security interest ’ ( how lenders try to secure what is owed to them , for example , by a right to repossess what is bought with the borrowed money ) . |
| 28 | It became a Soviet priority in the 1980s to prevent a whole series of Third World states from reverting back to military alignment or alliance with the West . |
| 29 | On this basis , a notice issued under a procedure relating solely to general board notices but which operates de facto as a rule change could be open to challenge . |
| 30 | Reverting now to spatio-temporal relations , the assumption of their irreducibility to monadic predicates is linked with the assumption that they depict an objective order , and if such relations are taken to depict an objective order , then it is clear that we shall have to assume the possibility of a plurality of biographically distinct points of view , occupied by different percipients , before we can make any significant inferences about the ontological distinguishability of their terms . |