Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [prep] [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may be through formal meetings and newsletters but it is likely to be done most effectively by talking to your son or daughter about his or her progress and following up these discussions with the school . |
| 2 | The issues to which my hon. Friend referred are just those where the health service needs to do a little better on listening to patients ' needs . |
| 3 | Get to know Steffi , or Stefan , Gabriela , or Boris , Andre , or Arantxa a little better by subscribing to a Tennis World fan club service for one year — you know it makes sense … |
| 4 | Though Sir Derek must ultimately carry management responsibility for the mess ISC has got the company into , it would prove difficult to find someone better to sort it out if only because any newcomer would have to spend so long in getting to grips with the problems . |
| 5 | Confirmation that importing ice was not then regular practice comes from the fact that customs officers in London were unclear what import duties to levy , and delayed so long in coming to a conclusion that Leftwich feared his cargo might melt . |
| 6 | The brutal , underlining truth of this contest is that , though Labour was bitterly disappointed by the election , the Kinnock line of disciplined moderation has earned 41 more seats and the stone , so far from rolling to the bottom of the mountain , is two thirds of the way up . |
| 7 | So even without intending to the nurse could not help but give out signals Chesarynth could read : the heavier exhalation , the pale tightness round the lips . |
| 8 | Small tree snakes that sham dead do so simply by dropping to the ground when disturbed and lying there . |
| 9 | Try to settle the puppy down here before going to bed . |
| 10 | Thank you very much indeed for talking to us John er er and I 'm so sorry it 's not going to be more of a a m m milestone in your life . |
| 11 | Thank you very much indeed for talking to us . |
| 12 | I have met knitters with bad backs , frozen shoulders , tennis elbows and so on from doing to much knitting at a time . |
| 13 | Only when she was on the other side of the car could she gain a clear view of Maurice and only then by closing to within a few yards . |
| 14 | Too many Group businesses , he said , are not good enough yet at listening to employees ' ideas and responding to them . |
| 15 | Unlike most scholars in the field , he was actually a trained architect , studying under the late Neo-classicist Albert Richardson , but he practised only briefly before turning to writing . |
| 16 | This procedure can be understood most easily by referring to the static torque/position characteristics , even though at the speeds in question these characteristics are not strictly applicable . |
| 17 | ‘ You can tell if their attitude 's right just by talking to them for a few minutes , ’ he says . |
| 18 | It gives me the opportunity not only of placing on the official record the Committee 's thanks to its staff for their work , not only of drawing to the attention of the House what I think is the first debate on community care to be initiated in the Chamber which is not part of a debate on another measure , but also of drawing attention to the number of firsts that we score with this report and debate . |
| 19 | Ensure that you have some physical exercise during the day — although not just before going to bed or your heart/pulse rate will increase and you will find sleeping even more difficult . |
| 20 | This involves trying to grasp Marx 's concept not solely by referring to previous conceptions of ideology but by relating it to his analysis of the mode of production . |
| 21 | Now my concern is not really with trying to erm get outside people or people in universities to sort of be involved in evaluations necessarily , it 's with helping people within schools to acquire more skills in the area of evaluation , so that schools , whenever they feel it would be useful to them , have got enough professional expertise among their own members to be able to perhaps rather more the quality of their evaluation and to see that it gets put perhaps to rather more purpose . |
| 22 | I says that much , it 's the only that I 'm not really into going to discos and things , and she says and anyway |
| 23 | They have had to overcome many difficulties ; not least in trying to marry-up disparate computer systems . |
| 24 | An immediate freeze on prices and wages was imposed , the latter to be adjusted twice yearly instead of according to monthly indexation mechanisms . |
| 25 | Patients were instructed to administer the enema once daily before retiring to bed and were warned that they may pass dark stools as a result of treatment . |
| 26 | If at any moment she began to feel tense or anxious , she was to stop and concentrate on making her body relax once more before returning to her visualization . |
| 27 | It would n't be fair to suggest that most users of desktop publishing systems were unhappy with the quality of their page printer 's output — more that they have realised that they can improve the quality still further by going to a bureau . |
| 28 | It 's amazing how much we pick up just from listening to someone on the telephone , and of course when you ca n't see them , so you have n't got any visual clues as to what they might be like , what you hear becomes all important . |
| 29 | PC Works 3.0 is a good bargain for anybody new to computing on a DOS-only machine and it is also well worth upgrading to if you currently use MS Works . |
| 30 | Just as in the 1914 war , the first effect to be felt was that of large numbers of operating and engineering staff joining the forces and London Transport had its own Territorial Unit who went to camp in August 1939 and were sent straight overseas without returning to work . |