Example sentences of "[v-ing] and [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did a lot of walking now — walking and going to the pictures . |
| 2 | ‘ You better stop sulking and apologize to your mother or I wo n't take you to Argentina . ’ |
| 3 | As far as I was concerned it was a nightmare , and merged in my memory with actually being evacuated ; the kids going down to Ladywell station in a crocodile on one side of the road , clutching oranges and bars of chocolate , and the mothers on the other , weeping and wailing and shouting to us across the street , lots of dwarfs and lots of Snow Whites . |
| 4 | Mr Toad was loose on the racetrack , yowling and tooting to himself |
| 5 | Mr Toad was loose on the racetrack , yowling and tooting to himself and let all beware who saw him come . |
| 6 | Example 2:16 Exceptions and reservations Excepting and reserving to the landlord : ( 1 ) Easement rights and privileges over the demised property corresponding to those expressly granted to the tenant over the other parts of the building ( 2 ) The right to build on develop deal with use any adjoining or neighbouring property retained by the landlord in such manner as he thinks fit even though the amenity of the demised property or the access of light or air thereto may be lessened thereby and without making any compensation to the tenant ( 3 ) The right at reasonable times and on reasonable notice ( except in emergency ) to enter the demised property for the purposes of ( i ) inspecting the condition and state of repair thereof ; ( ii ) carrying out any works ( whether of repair or otherwise ) for which the landlord or the tenant is liable under this lease ( iii ) carrying out any works ( whether of repair or otherwise ) to any property adjoining the demised property or to any party structure sewer drain or other thing used by the tenant in common with others ( iv ) measuring testing or valuing the demised property ( including the right to take samples of materials and to open up parts of the demised property which would otherwise be inaccessible ) but making good any damage caused by such an entry ( 4 ) The right for the landlord and the other tenants of the building to pass through the demised property in case of fire or other emergency Example 2:17 Definition of service pipes ' " service pipe " means any pipe , drain , sewer , flue , duct , gutter , wire , cable , optic fibre , conduit , channel or other means of passage or transmission of water , soil , gas , air , smoke , electricity , light , information or other matter and all ancillary equipment or structures |
| 7 | The Landlord demises to the Tenant the Premises Together with the rights specified in the second Schedule but Excepting and reserving to the Landlord the rights specified in the third Schedule To hold the Premises to the Tenant for the Contractual Term Subject to all rights easements privileges restrictions covenants and stipulations of whatever nature affecting the Premises [ including the matters contained or referred to in the seventh Schedule ] Yielding and paying to the Landlord : |
| 8 | He keeps mumbling and chuckling to himself ; a likeably batty old buzzard . |
| 9 | Specific topics included purchasing and selling to Hong Kong subcontractors . |
| 10 | He had performed the last rites earlier , when Patrick was at least half aware , and perhaps even knew what was happening and assented to it . |
| 11 | Fortunately I realized what was happening and went to our Old Town doctor , who had some serious things to say about this method she considered Germanic , and we were sent to St Helen 's Hospital for a minor operation and a re-think . |
| 12 | He saw what was happening and comes to my rescue . |
| 13 | monitoring of the environment The Soviet government has announced a decision to take part in global ecological monitoring by both utilising and contributing to the UN Environment Programme 's GRID database . |
| 14 | Dragging two musty-smelling blankets from the storage locker outside her door , she left one folded up as a pillow , shook the other one out and wrapped it around her , then lay down on one of the settees which provided seating and converted to pilot-berths on either side of the drop-leaf dining table . |
| 15 | ‘ in a street ( or public place ) called … ‘ 'Street ’ is defined at section 1(4) Street Offences Act 1959 as any bridge , road , lane , footway , subway , square , court , alley or passage , whether a thoroughfare or not , which is for the time being open to the public , and the doorways and entrances of premises abutting on a street ( as herein before defined ) and any ground adjoining and open to a street , shall form part of the street . |
| 16 | General von Schweinitz , the Prussian military plenipotentiary in St Petersburg , seems to have played in 1866 a crucial role in explaining and justifying to an at first hostile Alexander II Bismarck 's policy in Germany . |
| 17 | Such systems are therefore used across the organisation and often act as a form of corporate cultural glue , enabling and contributing to the issues discussed earlier . |
| 18 | This is necessary to determine the amount of cleaning , checking and editing to be done before deposition of the data with the Data Archive is possible . |
| 19 | a strangely good baby , always laughing and talking to himself in his own fashion , kicking in his pram , talking to the trees . |
| 20 | Suspension : If dirt was merely broken up into small particles cleaning would not necessarily be able to take place as there would be nothing to prevent the dirt reforming and re-attaching to a surface . |
| 21 | The single ranks as one of ‘ 92 's finest , receiving huge club play from a limited white label pressing and proving to be the stand-out tune on the first ‘ Movin' On ’ British soul compilation album . |
| 22 | To add to the problems , gas welding cylinders were in danger of exploding and had to be carried out by firemen and placed in water . |
| 23 | The first voice concerns itself with the story , which is loosely based on the tradition of women weaving and chanting to the rhythms of their work . |
| 24 | At length , Bunting recalled , ‘ the largest workman rose frowning and came to our table ; but what he said was : ‘ Is it no the great poet , Hugh MacDiarmid ? ’ |
| 25 | The ideal woman is gentle , kind , long-suffering , loving and submits to the demands of men , whether they be husbands , fathers , sons or brothers . |
| 26 | It 's important that marketing — listening and responding to the needs of others gets a high priority at each and every staff meeting . |
| 27 | Secondary pupil still not communicating and has to be taken home . |
| 28 | Focusing involves a speech community in establishing and adhering to rather narrow norms of linguistic behaviour , i.e. putting fairly strict limits on the range of acceptable forms . |
| 29 | Notice is commonly given by a printed form obtainable from law stationers in duplicate ( the duplicate for receipting and return to you by the lessor 's solicitors as evidence that the covenant has been complied with ) . |
| 30 | Kids were pushing past me down the corridor , all shouting and yelling to each other , and Kevin was carried along with them . |