Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] to [noun sg] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said at Dumfries Sheriff Court that he and his friend had gone to the upstairs lavatory in the dormitory building about half-an-hour after going to bed when they had been called over to the girls ' room . |
| 2 | Instead of walking to school as we always used to do in the olden days , even if it was a three mile journey , nearly every child of today gets taken there in a car . |
| 3 | George and Elizabeth were on the point of going to bed when they heard a knock on the door . |
| 4 | He was on the verge of going to bed when he heard footsteps in the hall . |
| 5 | Being afraid of going to hell after you die is one . |
| 6 | There was evidence that passers-by were annoyed , and were on the verge of resorting to violence when the police intervened . |
| 7 | The American habit of referring to housework as ‘ homemaking ’ neatly cements the ideological division between home and work . |
| 8 | Now , in turning to style as recurrence , pattern , frequency we find ourselves taking the reader 's point of view . |
| 9 | I was cold , tired and hungry , but there seemed little point in going to bed until the storm had gone through . |
| 10 | I believe in going to bed when you are really tired , not when you think you should . |
| 11 | Billy Rock who has Listowel in mind for his smart and successful chaser Joey Kelly runs the gelding on Monday and he will go again at the next Roscommon meeting a fortnight later before travelling to Listowel where he might be worth an investment in view of that Galway win in July . |
| 12 | Sun expects Dragon to plough through the logjam holding back diffident customers from committing to Unix because pricey Unix servers ca n't handle the load . |
| 13 | However , there is evidence to suggest that women may have fewer problems in adjusting to retirement than men . |