Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [v-ing] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I 've got to make you look respectable for going to bed with , have n't I ? |
| 2 | Many women these days feel rather guilty about admitting to loneliness . |
| 3 | For long periods throughout my childhood I was afraid of going to sleep , afraid of the extinction brought by sleep . |
| 4 | Being afraid of going to hell after you die is one . |
| 5 | It was quite different from going to school in London . |
| 6 | The Universities Council for the Education of Teachers ( UCET ) debated this before agreeing to publication as a matter of course , though they were under some pressure from the DES , HMI , and , interestingly , from the Vice-Chancellors ( individually and collectively through the Committee for Principals and Vice-Chancellors ) . |
| 7 | Little did the bargeman know that he would be instrumental in bringing to justice the most hated woman of her time . |
| 8 | While advocates of community policing express confidence in its ability to effect improvements ( Alderson 1979 , 1982 ; Scarman 1981 ) , research contradicts this by pointing to resistance from those constables who are responsible for it or to organizational constraints ( Fielding et al . |
| 9 | The supreme court found guerrilla leaders Hiroko Nagata , 48 , and Hiroshi Sakaguchi , 46 , guilty of torturing to death 12 comrades they had labelled traitors and shooting dead two policemen and a civilian during a ten-day siege . |
| 10 | She was now fearful about returning to school , but agreed to discuss this with her tutor . |
| 11 | Whatever your past experience or clinical area of expertise , you may still feel apprehensive and nervous about returning to practice , even after completing a re-entry programme . |
| 12 | Planning involves a series of action steps , such as going to bed earlier than usual and setting an alarm ( or a failsafe system incorporating two or more alarms ! ) . for more on the need for specificity see Action plans on page 1 . |
| 13 | There was a similar body in existence , the Privy Council , consisting of the chief officials of state together with other influential persons , which , indeed , still exists today as the formal body which technically discharges much of the official business of the Crown , such as assenting to prerogative legislation , explained below . |
| 14 | Within the confines of the garden your dog will have learnt the basic commands such as walking to heel and sitting . |
| 15 | The patient 's history usually reveals long-standing difficulties in coping with stressful events and the use of maladaptive coping mechanisms , such as resorting to alcohol , regressing to a very dependent and helpless state , or inertia . |
| 16 | The Republicans were fortunate in coming to power at a time of growing prosperity . |
| 17 | HMIP 's policing function will be crucial in bringing to book companies that pollute air and waterways . |
| 18 | This is similar to turning to page 23 in the account book . |
| 19 | Personal papers , diaries and autobiographies are exceedingly valuable for bringing to light how past parents coped with the difficult task of rearing their children . |
| 20 | And they stabbed at him and caused his whole body to tremble as if in shame because , in a way , he knew she was right : his inadequacy to face his future was there for even himself to see ; he had considered volunteering in order to avoid the responsibility of making the choice either of going to University to read for a degree in English Literature or of just plumping for a teacher 's training college course . |
| 21 | ‘ How does one recognise the men who are worthy of assigning to man-the-instrument his role and function ? |
| 22 | Koti works at night as well , and so we both get home late — but we always have a natter before going to bed , no matter how late . |
| 23 | Does my hon. Friend agree that it is regrettable that the same unions that stopped the sick from getting to hospital in 1978 and 1979 are showing the same callous disregard — or at least their leaderships are doing so — for the needs of patients ? |
| 24 | ‘ It has a full complement , a crew , an armoury and is good for putting to sea at a moment 's notice . ’ |
| 25 | However , it can be argued that neither strategy has succeeded in making a significant enough difference in Third World women 's access to information and skills relevant to them and useful for contributing to development in their communities . |
| 26 | Sleep onset time was reduced from 33 minutes during baseline recordings to less than 5 minutes by the seventh night , and time spent awake after going to sleep was reduced from about 30 minutes to virtually zero . |
| 27 | I also have more than a thought for the people who do have homes but who are living in conditions of appalling squalor , for battered wives and abused children who stay at home because there 's nowhere safe for them to go , and for the husbands who choose to stay with their families in the north rather than abandon them for crazy periods of time because they could find work only in the south , And while we 're on the subject , I 'm sick and tired of listening to government and commerce saying it 's ‘ uneconomic ’ to locate businesses in the north of Britain when we 're currently importing billions of pounds ’ worth of consumer goods from the other side of the world . |
| 28 | Frank Johnson of Canterbury finds that after repeated playings of the National Anthem the herons get tired of standing to attention on one leg and leave . |
| 29 | If they stand a chance at all of appealing to agency workers , it will only be ( as the General and Municipal union have done in trying to attract the self-employed ) by appealing to individualist , entrepreneurial interests rather than collectivist , employee interests . |
| 30 | They therefore constitute a significant historical source , above all in bringing to life the British community in Calcutta . |