Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [v-ing] to [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She sounded astonished , and I knew that the real danger of the moment was only just occurring to her . |
| 2 | The songs from Snoopy and The Nightingale are not so immediately appealing to anyone who does n't know the shows , but the casts are strong and put the numbers across with confidence and verve . |
| 3 | She shook hands with Sarah , whom she had not met until this afternoon , saying , ‘ It 's been ever so nice talking to you , Mrs Kleiber . |
| 4 | The humans below tried shining coloured lights at it , and playing tunes at it , and eventually just speaking to it in every language known to humans . |
| 5 | Without foreign or extraneous admixture ; free from anything not properly pertaining to it ; homogeneous , unalloyed . |
| 6 | The societies woke up to the threat and realised that the public was no longer naturally coming to them for mortgages . |
| 7 | Choose your type of moisturiser , not only according to your skin type , but also in relation to the climate . |
| 8 | To a degree unknown in any other use of language he finds himself not only attending to what is said but simultaneously hearing the words as textures of vowels and consonants , noting rhythm , rhyme , assonance ; meanings refuse to be tied down , disclose nuances and associations of which he has never been conscious ; sights and sounds which he has never heeded become sensuously precise and vivid in imagination ; emotion assumes a peculiar lucidity , undisguised by what he habitually feels or has been taught that he ought to feel ; truths about life and death , which he follows social convention in systematically evading , stand out as simple and unchallengeable . |
| 9 | WHEN citizens of the Irish Republic bestow sainthood on Jack Charlton , thinking him to be perhaps the most significant figure in their sporting history , they are not merely responding to what he has already achieved with the national football team . |
| 10 | Like , erm , I 'm , like I 'm not fucking saying to she 's , she 's but she 's , she just gets fucking absolutely stupid ! |
| 11 | Problems vary , not just according to what they are about , but also according to : |
| 12 | Another thirty Health and Safety proposals are on the way such as that on working time in the news last week and another to restore the protection for young people at work which we 've lost over the last decade , and just as important the union has just n not just reacting to what 's coming out of Brussels , it 's actually helping set the agenda . |
| 13 | She was just like talking to herself , she 's going |
| 14 | Mitch , of course , was not now speaking to her . |
| 15 | That does appeal to me because it 's nothing you 're not particularly competing to something like Yellow Pages or anything like that . |
| 16 | War weariness was increasing the unpopularity of the Whigs , and although the Tories were happy with Queen Anne , the prospect of the succession of the House of Hanover , foreign Lutherans who were known to be sympathetic to the Whigs , was not particularly appealing to them . |
| 17 | I 'm not even speaking to you because of that flipping letter . |
| 18 | Is it usual to understand anyone — I 'm not even referring to my enigmatic self — at one 's second meeting ? ’ |
| 19 | I certainly Mr Chairman welcome this paper erm and I know today that I think possibly the main reason being erm , I could be deemed also been through and through today responding to our local issue and that maybe due to May fever , I do n't know , erm , in really accepting acknowledging as I have done in the past your efforts , erm the county surveyor 's efforts for this part of Suffolk I do again bring to your attention and I do n't think is being critical in that the Barnet by bypass is part of a far bigger jigsaw and that jigsaw I say not |
| 20 | A good working relationship also enhances an officer 's intelligence system , more effectively bringing to his attention knowledge of pollutions for which the discharger or his neighbours may be responsible . |
| 21 | I remember Ron Evans once half-jokingly saying to me : " It 's all very well , you know . |
| 22 | At Madame 's right hand , on the stool next to her , hardly ever talking to her but always right there beside her , was the man that we all called O. I deliberately have n't told you about him yet . |
| 23 | He had closed his eyes again and was once more listening to his voices . |
| 24 | STILL admirably sticking to their principles , the Hernandez Brothers recently turned down a very large sum from Warner Brothers for the rights to make a film of the Love And Rockets comic . |
| 25 | Jennie preferred to stay and supervise ; she was always backstage seeing to their make-up : |
| 26 | Perhaps he was contemplating his own life with Vivien here just as , when he connected McKnight Kauffer 's death with a sense of " the void " , he was once again returning to his own feeling of emptiness which had played so large a part in his religious conversion . |
| 27 | The Chancellor — clearly just clinging to his job — told Ministers at a Cabinet meeting yesterday that they must slash millions off their budgets . |
| 28 | He was not to make another attempt , later tragically falling to his death from nearby Cousin 's Buttress . |
| 29 | You might find it 's a little bit strange me stood up here talking to you about temporary labour , part-time workers , when you 've heard what Asda 's gone through and said temporary labour situations all morning . |
| 30 | He lied so convincingly I ended up almost apologising to him . |