Example sentences of "[adv] to [v-ing] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 29-year-old Motherwell man , who has made an art form of fouling up on the big occasion , acknowledged that he too came close to calling it a day after the Olympics . |
| 2 | ’ One of them once said the only thing that came close to giving her the same thrill she got from shoplifting was having sex in a public place — you know it 's wrong and you might be caught , but it feels great , ’ adds Liz . |
| 3 | Many of these boil down to the simultaneous call to go back to doing it the way it was , to keep on doing it the way it is , and to move forward to doing it differently . |
| 4 | So I drove back across the whole of the county , from Banbury to Henley to return to Windsor , where my parents were spending the summer with us , and looked forward to telling them the news . |
| 5 | We look forward to telling you the outcome of this invitation in due course . |
| 6 | On Wednesday evening , the Admiral looked in on the club after dinner and Amiss heard him say goodnight to the five , remarking that he had a little work to do in the office , after which he would get back home and turn in : he looked forward to seeing them the following day . |
| 7 | ‘ We look forward to making it a hat-trick and are happy to offer our engineering facilities to any group with a similar project in mind . ’ |
| 8 | And I shall look forward to giving you a good report when you next visit us in a ’ — she paused — ‘ fortnight 's time . |
| 9 | Dave said , ‘ The most frightening part of the jump was climbing out of the plane and having to crawl along the wing before jumping , but I look forward to doing it a second time just for fun ! ’ |
| 10 | ‘ This Mr Postman very good man , ’ said Mr Singh , who had not been invited to the ceremony , but was clearly looking forward to attending none the less . |
| 11 | Since she has done the unthinkable in LA and has never got round to buying herself a car , bus rides are the only way of getting around and the 6am commute to work brings her daily inspiration . |
| 12 | I never got round to showing you the photos of him last time . ’ |
| 13 | They got the losers ' medals , in the end , though someone at the FA should get round to re-naming them the runners-up medals . |