Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The library , with its vague connection with academic work , can hold little attraction for a student struggling to adjust to university life ’ . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , the collaboration of the secular arm in bringing excommunicates to heel not only continued but apparently gathered pace . |
| 3 | Once he 'd found out that I was applying to go to art school he opened up quite a bit and we began to talk . |
| 4 | Describes the clients in a pawnbroker 's shop in a squalid neighbourhood : a harridan , a drunken brute who abuses his pathetic wife , a genteel mother and daughter just becoming inured to poverty , a prostitute , and a drunken old woman ( ‘ Who shall say how soon these women may change places ? ’ ) . |
| 5 | Yet competing successfully in Europe means competing according to Community rules . |
| 6 | Shortly after his accession , he ordered the release of Catholics who had been imprisoned for refusing to go to church or for not taking oaths , and ordered the Exchequer to repay their fines . |
| 7 | She wore her parents out by nightly refusing to go to bed until they did ; whereupon she would sleep normally . |
| 8 | So does deliberately wetting the carpet or shouting angrily at mother , or refusing to go to bed . |
| 9 | She blamed herself for trusting him to wait , for not refusing to go to Sniffy without the van keys in her possession . |
| 10 | In Gillick v. West Norfolk and Wisbech Area Health Authority [ 1986 ] A.C. 112 the central issue was not whether a child patient under the age of 16 could refuse medical treatment if the parents or the court consented , but whether the parents could effectively impose a veto on treatment by failing or refusing to consent to treatment to which the child might consent . |
| 11 | The argument that W. , or any other 16- or 17-year-old , can by refusing to consent to treatment veto the treatment notwithstanding that the doctor has the consent of someone who has parental responsibilities , involves the proposition that section 8 has the further effect of depriving such a person of the power to consent . |
| 12 | Dressing to go to town , Nick could hear their voices through the open window and Marjorie 's occasional laughter , soft and contented as a cat 's purr . |
| 13 | North , wanting to go to church , deferred it . |
| 14 | The other element of group violence is of course , if there are a group of people throwing bricks at the police , or chanting or swearing at people wanting to go to work from a picket line , the law , the criminal law is designed to prove guilt against an individual for an individual 's conduct according to the preordained laws , whether they be statute law or common law . |
| 15 | He thought , there is wanting to go to bed with someone , which is really just an erection ; and there is the kind of wanting which extends beyond the night into the day , the kind where you spend all day waiting , sometimes several days . |
| 16 | Think of feeling a sensation in one 's knee-or noticing a cup , having the usual inattentive visual experience of a room , feeling good or depressed about nothing specific , being struck by the fact of a recent death , wanting to go to bed , deciding not to , momentarily intending to watch the news on television , picturing a face , thinking a question or a sentence , writing one , having a dream . |
| 17 | Intriguingly enough , the only way I can make Selina actually want to go to bed with me is by not wanting to go to bed with her . |
| 18 | He had regretted refusing to talk to Rain and rung Eliot to say so . |
| 19 | The motive behind this may have been the desire to assist monasteries in living according to canon law ; for the Second Lateran Council of 1139 had forbidden churchmen to participate in justice de sang ( the trial of crimes punished by corporal or capital penalties ) . |
| 20 | It 's up to you whether you think you 're using sharp powers of interpretation or acting according to paranoia . |
| 21 | As Attridge shows this means that poetry claiming to be perfecting the natural ( acting according to decorum ) establishes its claim to do so by using a rhetoric which is employed only by a learned few whose language is distanced from the natural language of the majority . |
| 22 | But if you have to choose one market and you 're producing for or looking to sell to TV , then MIP-TV is probably the better place . |
| 23 | Like Mr Major , Liverpool was a candid speaker who was scrupulous in refusing to descend to misrepresentation or fancy political footwork . |
| 24 | Some hours of searching brought to light a few finds , these being small targets but nevertheless interesting ones . |
| 25 | It was the Book of Remembering coming to life . |
| 26 | This was the Book of Remembering come to life ! |
| 27 | Then , not wanting to return to bed , she made herself comfortable in the wicker armchair , her eyes gazing on her husband 's sleeping face . |
| 28 | At that time it was not a case of wanting to return to work but having to . |
| 29 | Our group of women training to return to management have been finding out |
| 30 | Maybe I could stack it up and set the place alight , so that they — and that terrible female they were now conspiring to bring to life — would perish in the flames , together with all Frankenstein 's instruments and notes . |