Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [v-ing] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Groups are said to work because the group members can now react to each other instead of just reacting to management . |
| 2 | Instead of simply going to bed , she insisted on returning , believing that it was her duty to try and fulfil her obligations . |
| 3 | Without employing his own servants as agents and deputies Sadler obviously could not have managed his group of offices ; as it was he complained of seldom going to bed before midnight and generally waking by 4. a.m . |
| 4 | Maybe if we were teaching them properly they would know how to protest without just resorting to violence or vandalism of some type , without the first step being breaking the rules ; but we do n't . |
| 5 | I did n't used to like going to college once a week . |
| 6 | And it 's true that , without ever resorting to circus gimmicks , Armani manages to make the world 's sexiest women — Michelle Pfeiffer and Julia Roberts head the list — even sexier . |
| 7 | Malcolm Kennedy had been jailed at the Old Bailey in September 1991 for allegedly kicking to death his cellmate , Patrick Quinn , at Hammersmith police station in west London early on Christmas Eve , 1990 . |
| 8 | That is how Mrs Thatcher and her entourage are playing it and while many of the 57 , probably 59 , dissenters may disagree they , too , reinforced the Downing Street mood by prudently going to earth . |