Example sentences of "[v-ing] to [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The American show includes film of people leaping to death from blazing buildings and other sickening true stories . |
| 2 | Which you will be opening to public on Channel Four . |
| 3 | Consequently she never stopped bellyaching to Daisy about how all the other Pony Club members had at least three ponies , and how humiliating it was having to hack to meetings when everyone else rolled up either in the latest horse boxes with grooms , or driving Porsches with telephones . |
| 4 | There are a number of farm buildings at the site that date from the 17th and 18th centuries , the actual mill appearing to date from some point in the 19th century . |
| 5 | Cyclops were not unique to Greek mythology ; appearing to Sinbad in The Arabian Nights was a huge monster : |
| 6 | And did those feet … predecessors of the new wave of Soviet Jews walking to Palestine in the 1930sPHOTOGRAPH : BBC HULTON PICTURE LIBRARY corrections page 19 |
| 7 | walking to school with no one around |
| 8 | Then there were the unwritten rules : girls travelling by train were not to travel in carriages with boys , and walking to school in the mornings , boys walked on one side of the road , girls on the other . |
| 9 | I remember the grey excitement of walking to rehearsals through the blacked-out streets , of playing ‘ Mars the Bringer of War ’ by candlelight , in overcoats and scarves . |
| 10 | I can remember as a boy walking to Rochester via the ferry and Wouldham on many occasions but this was only a stroll compared with some of the older inhabitants efforts . |
| 11 | You are warned that cats do not take kindly to walking to heel like a dog , and prefer to walk alongside you . |
| 12 | and coming to dinner with me every evening , being in the same room , walking to lessons with her , it fucks me off like hell , she 's really getting on my wick , you know ? |
| 13 | I 've heard from Tim and Mark , as well as others ( Kevin and Arif and Phil and Neil ) , and it seems this change-of-address thing is happening to loads of you . |
| 14 | Of course , I 'd heard of AIDS and the destruction of that immunity , but somehow that was happening to homosexuals in LA or Brighton and not here with me , deep in the pastoral Hampshire countryside . |
| 15 | It was n't just us ; we were both concerned about what was happening to girls in YTP because this conference today is talking about training and employment and so many of the young girls in West Belfast , the girls who are not going on to third level education , go into YTP . |
| 16 | Section 2.2 explores different definitions of deindustrialization , looking at each of them in the context of data on what has actually been happening to manufacturing in this country over recent decades . |
| 17 | Since the first signs of a contraction in the employment base of manufacturing in the 1960s , the question of what is happening to manufacturing in the UK has rapidly become one of central importance . |
| 18 | And so if we look at what was happening to income at that time , we find that the disposable income , meaning the amount of money we have to spend on other things after we 've bought essentials , that figure rose by only one and a half percent throughout this period . |
| 19 | The Minister , however , does not give a damn about what is happening to people on the lowest incomes ; he does not even understand what is happening to local government . |
| 20 | DARLINGTON 'S Karl Aldorfer left the rest of the field well behind storming to victory during the Chester-le-Street open on the River Wear with 23–14–0 . |
| 21 | True Brit Christie 's first action after storming to victory in just 9.96 seconds was to snatch a giant Union Jack flag from British fans and drape it around his shoulders for his rousing lap of honour . |
| 22 | As he listened with mounting alarm he began to realise that the flames would almost certainly have reduced some of the world 's finest baroque woodcarving to lumps of featureless charcoal . |
| 23 | Equal amounts of cell membrane protein from normal and carcinoma tissue were boiled for five minutes in SDS sample buffer and analysed by SDS polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis acording to Laemmli with 7% resolving gels . |
| 24 | Pollution of the Po , Italy 's largest river , is a source of mounting concern , with fears that it may be contributing to pollution of the Adriatic , into which it flows . |
| 25 | ERS-1 will also measure sea temperature , contributing to studies into the role that the oceans play in determining global climate . |
| 26 | In fact , Marie Hoader tried to account for the negative consequences of unemployment in terms of five things that employment provides in our society , five sorts of experience that more and more , as we are industrialized and as more and more people are involved in working in employment , erm have come to be important and provided via employment , and we talked of two of those earlier — one 's activity and one was time structure — and you 've just raised the issue of feeling that you 're contributing to society in some way , that you 're part of a collective purpose , that you 're not just drawing things out , you 're also doing something useful with your time . |
| 27 | In retirement I hope my company will provide me with an office and a secretary , so that I can go on contributing to society from my experience . |
| 28 | Since history is a discipline of a highly verbal nature , a grasp of its terminology is obviously an important objective , contributing to achievement in all aspects of its study … |
| 29 | The existence of this body of appellate decisions in social security matters has the obvious effect of contributing to consistency of decision making not only by adjudication officers in their initial decisions on claims , but also by SSATs . |
| 30 | However , it can be argued that neither strategy has succeeded in making a significant enough difference in Third World women 's access to information and skills relevant to them and useful for contributing to development in their communities . |