Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [v-ing] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had been told about periods at primary school when I was ten years old , but apart from that , the only information I had was what I got through talking to friends at school , because some had older sisters who had already started . |
| 2 | But you can achieve specific aims , and making people think about going to church instead of B & Q is a measurable objective . ’ |
| 3 | Two Japanese car makers are developing electric-powered versions of their luxury models , designed for leasing to government officials . |
| 4 | erm does she know about coming to school ? another car , huh , does she know about coming to school erm late ? |
| 5 | erm does she know about coming to school ? another car , huh , does she know about coming to school erm late ? |
| 6 | He 's having a look to see how much work he 's got in the office today and if he has n't got enough to worry about going to work tomorrow he 's just going to go fishing tomorrow . |
| 7 | Also Bryan Robson had to have stiches after being attacked after going to Cantona 's assistance . |
| 8 | He reads the Koran , he attends daily prayers , and occasionally , when there is a gap in the conversation , he babbles of going to Mecca . |
| 9 | They were to go on trial on January 5 charged with lying to Congress about the controversy . |
| 10 | ‘ And that starts with going to work , perfectly normally . ’ |
| 11 | I was walking along talking to Mika I think and it just shot up from in front of me , I had my foot out . |
| 12 | This awareness of need is the first level of understanding in coming to faith , and if there is any deficiency at this fundamental level , doubt will strike later on . |
| 13 | Suggestions ranged from hacksawing to blow-torches . |
| 14 | These ranged from switching to Highers in non-science subjects when the original intention had been SCE/GCE science to a degree in building and surveying when the original application had been for a place on an access course in science and technology . |
| 15 | In this it resembled the British constitution itself , which , as apo-logists delight in explaining to foreigners , is nowhere embodied in a single document having the force of law . |
| 16 | After the meeting was over and the main demonstration had dispersed , some civil rights supporters succeeded in infiltrating to Market Square by a roundabout route . |
| 17 | He had , however , succeeded in demonstrating to President Ratu Penaia Ganilau that he had the support of the majority of the FPP leadership behind him . |
| 18 | The hesitation which the average individual has in going to Court and giving evidence should not be under-estimated and if there is , therefore , an inclination to avoid that the Tender provides the agent with a basis for persuading the client to accept . |
| 19 | She obviously feels it can not be resolved without going to court . ’ |
| 20 | But to stand outside listening to Percy Makepeace 's classes , as he had done today , was to die a little . |
| 21 | I am the treasurer of an organisation devoted to writing to prisoners under sentence of death in the Caribbean . |
| 22 | And Hendry 's ego was further shattered by losing to John Parrott in the last frame of the Dubai Duty Free Classic final and again to him in Belgium . |
| 23 | MIP-1 β was immobilized by binding to proteoglycan : a conjugate of heparin with bovine serum albumin and cellular proteoglycan CD44 were both effective . |
| 24 | They deny , however , that anything useful is added by referring to states of the brain in terms of awareness or consciousness , or even as representations of the environment . |
| 25 | A few grams can be legitimately shed by stripping to undershorts and T — shirts . |
| 26 | ‘ And I did think of driving to Karlovy Vary to … ’ |
| 27 | But if you think this is bloody " — and he laughed his hacking tubercular laugh " our ancestors would n't think of going to sea in a new prahu which had n't first been rolled into the water over the living bodies of seven women in their first pregnancy ! |
| 28 | It 's in Florida now , you know , they moved it , but then it was in Hollywood and nobody we knew had ever heard of going to Disneyland . ’ |
| 29 | You 've heard of talking to plants to boost their growth , but what about stroking them to keep pests away ? |
| 30 | Aragorn has to choose between going to Mordor or to Minas Tirith ; delays , and then finds himself choosing between Sam and Frodo or Merry and pippin ; picks one quest , and then has to decide whether to rest or pursue by night . |