Example sentences of "[verb] of [v-ing] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He reads the Koran , he attends daily prayers , and occasionally , when there is a gap in the conversation , he babbles of going to Mecca . |
| 2 | ‘ And I did think of driving to Karlovy Vary to … ’ |
| 3 | 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 ! |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | You 've heard of talking to plants to boost their growth , but what about stroking them to keep pests away ? |
| 6 | They were suspected of belonging to Hizbullah ( Party of God ) and were allegedly tortured . |
| 7 | Unfortunately , there are other , newer sources never suspected of contributing to eutrophication that may be beyond the political if not the scientific , reach of conservationists . |
| 8 | He had been accused of clinging to Office , but he appealed to all those present to say whether such a charge was justifiable . |
| 9 | In the absence of the UCR 's 85 deputies , the government was still accused of resorting to bribes and political favours to guarantee the support of all 119 of its own deputies , when securing the passage through the lower chamber of the Congress on Sept. 24 of reforms to the hydrocarbons law . |
| 10 | There was another face then , which did n't have to be invented : a moustached face that had recently and endlessly appeared on the television news , the face of a man who was accused of battering to death the nanny of his children , of attempting to do the same to his wife . |
| 11 | Kevin Sarbutts , of Elmridge , Skelmersdale , Lancashire , is accused of lying to Court of Appeal judges when he claimed he was coerced by police into giving vital evidence against a man accused of killing a stallholder in 1987 . |
| 12 | It has also been inconveniently revealed that some Muslim fighters have being doing to Croats what the Croats stand accused of doing to Muslims . |
| 13 | Poole , as one who had already thought of emigrating to America , listened sympathetically ; but he saw at once that the scheme could never succeed , remarking to a friend that however perfectible human nature might be , it was ‘ not yet perfect enough ’ for Pantisocracy . |
| 14 | Had she , then , not thought of going to West Germany ? |
| 15 | At the front door , Miss Rose said , ‘ Have you thought of talking to Kate Maybury ? |
| 16 | ‘ He talked of moving to Falmouth , ’ Richard said . |
| 17 | We still talk of yielding to animal passions . |
| 18 | The more in touch we are with our own life experience , the greater chance we will have of listening to God screaming his love for us in the ordinary events of our lives . |
| 19 | ‘ Perceptual learning , then , consists of responding to variables of the physical stimulation not previously responded to ’ ( Gibson and Gibson 1955 , p. 34 ) . |
| 20 | ‘ We thought of going to France . ’ |
| 21 | I thought of going to St Denis , but to what use ? |
| 22 | I thought of going to Vetch Street while you were on your rounds , waiting for you , and begging you to take me back , as a skivvy , nothing more , just to be near you , however much you despised me , and hang all worthless pride , and then you came . |
| 23 | There are lots of ways to walk to Fort William if that 's what you fancy , except now one of them is littered with lots of wooden posts with painted thistles , and hundreds of people trudging about who never thought of walking to Fort William until someone gave them the West Highland Way guide book for their Christmas . |
| 24 | Theatre in the world at large is unimaginable without an audience : I would n't dream of listening to radio drama with anyone else in the room . |
| 25 | And , going on in the same vein before Fabia could gently state that she would n't dream of going to Czechoslovakia without her , ‘ It 's about a four-hour crossing so you 'll have time for some shut-eye and a rest before … ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I only disapprove of drinking to excess , Tom . |
| 27 | Shortly after these outcries , he pulled out all the stops in an attempt to persuade Theo — who was embroiled in crises of his own and talking of emigrating to America — to join him and become an artist . |
| 28 | Who was talking of going to work for a different firm then ? |
| 29 | Yet let us always beware of jumping to conclusions , of assuming too readily that those experienced parliamentary draftsmen did not know their business and , perhaps above all , of attributing legislative intention too readily simply because we think that we , the judges , had we been the legislators , would have found such an intention sensible or morally or politically desirable . |
| 30 | I was thinking of writing to TSB and the programme desk tomorrow advertising our group , I 'll send a draft letter so you can comment on it . |