Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] to [noun sg] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After going to bed that night . |
| 2 | They are , therefore , the last people in the world prepared to lose weight , take exercise or be persuaded of the wisdom of going to bed each night with a bloody tennis ball bouncing around their neck . |
| 3 | Make a list of words that describe how you think Brian Smart would feel about coming to school each day . |
| 4 | This was in recognition both of the 40th anniversary of his debut with the company and of the strenuous part he has played in bringing to fruition this ambitious project . |
| 5 | Before returning to court this morning the 60 year old was contemplating the prospect of a possible jail sentence . |
| 6 | The problems which are likely to be encountered in attempting to mesh such divergent data are both technical and philosophical . |
| 7 | Before going to bed that evening he studied the map he had been given . |
| 8 | On returning to college this will assist them and their fellow course team members to finalise their own Stage 2 submission(s) prior to forwarding these to SCOTVEC by 28 February 1989 . |
| 9 | " The Archbishop the next day travelling to Rochester , told his story to some of his familiars and had scarce concluded it when he was siezed with a sudden shivering and sickness , that he could scarce get to the village of Halling , a place of the Bishop of Rochester , where he had no sooner arrived by going to bed that night he died of a fit of collick " . |
| 10 | ‘ Cardinal Stuart , ’ wrote the British minister in Florence to Horace Walpole , ‘ by putting on the cowle [ i.e. cardinal 's hat ] has done more to extinguish his party than would have been effected by putting to death many thousand of deluded followers . ’ |