Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] to [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clough has deserved the plaudits for sticking to his football principles but , as he knows , it takes courage to play your football at the top of the League too . |
| 2 | ‘ Mrs Benson has been here waiting very patiently , ’ she said , and , after apologising to her client , Sophie set to work . |
| 3 | ‘ Mr and Mrs Woodhead had a domestic argument after returning to their home after the mayormaking and the police were called . |
| 4 | Father Morrow spoke yesterday of his visit to the Blands ' home after returning to his base at Humanae Vitae House , a former 18th century Catholic chapel in the Deeside village of Braemar which has become the focus of his national campaign . |
| 5 | After listening to my heart and extracting a syringe-full of blood from an artery , they connected my right arm to the drip-feed . |
| 6 | Froggatt , who has an Irish mother , said : ‘ I decided to play for England after speaking to my father . |
| 7 | He said he could do that in a few minutes after getting to his office , and I arranged to ring him later in the morning . |
| 8 | A MAN was hit by six cars and two lorries after plunging to his death from a motorway footbridge . |
| 9 | After acceding to his master 's wishes Nine Turning Mirrors would , I am quite sure , make his own arrangements with a view to ensuring that one wanderer would not be allowed to return home bringing , perhaps , the disease of dissatisfaction . |
| 10 | He had spent some time alone after talking to her father , had changed his clothes and had a shower , trying to clear his mind of all the stuff of history , the political necessities that ruled their lives , the reasons he must lie . |
| 11 | Thank you also for listening to my story . |
| 12 | Marcus thought about writing to his father but knew he did n't have anything to say to him . |
| 13 | The effect of all this uncertainty and waiting was that through listening to her mother and Maria Candida , Sara began to convince herself that she already knew and loved her future husband and the country he would take her back to . |
| 14 | But with all this argument , contrived for his own reassurance and for retailing to his wife , the Commander failed in the end to convince himself . |
| 15 | TAKING as her text one of Paul Cezanne 's lesser-known dictums that ‘ the same subject , from a different angle , can be the subject for study of the most powerful interest ’ , Eleanor Bowen stretches the art of drawing to its limit . |
| 16 | The parabola has the important property of reflecting to its focus all lines parallel to the x axis . |
| 17 | All that summer I was ill — they said they thought it was glandular fever — but I know it was my way of reacting to my father 's death . |
| 18 | After all , good results will qualify you for a better job , and give you the added satisfaction of proving to your boss that you are good at what you do . |
| 19 | In addition to this purely functional role of planning and buying , a good media person has a more creative role , too , of suggesting to the rest of the account group new ways of using a medium , and of bringing to their attention any special opportunities that may exist . |
| 20 | For the players , there was the prospect of returning to their day jobs with £50 in their pockets , for the landlord there was a healthy night 's takings and for the crowd , even those who had stayed in the bar all evening , there was a nasty ringing in the ears the next morning . |
| 21 | ‘ We intended to go peaceably to the buffalo country ’ , Joseph noted , ‘ and leave the question of returning to our country to be settled afterward ’ . |
| 22 | After what seemed an age , Rubber Feet moved off towards what they call the Lavatory Tower ( not what it sounds like ) , Leather Feet must have figured I 'd gone inside the Cath because he pattered off up the steps , which of course meant the end of all hopes of returning to my refuge via the Crypt . |
| 23 | In 1979 and 1980 , Zeng spent his summers on cycling holidays to Hangzhou and Shanghai , and the following year he took the unprecedented step of applying to his work unit for extended leave to travel , even threatening to resign if his wishes were not granted . |
| 24 | He was still at Berkhamsted at the end of June , but at least then he had the relief of writing to his council with somewhat more reassuring news from Northumberland . |
| 25 | After years of scrutinising Jesus of Nazareth , of listening to his teaching , of watching his character , of observing his miracles , after witnessing that shameful death and experiencing that glorious resurrection , the men who had known him best were sure of it . |
| 26 | Well , it 's five past according to my watch . |
| 27 | The colours all yelled at each other ; most of the furniture was cheap and shabby and it was in a clutter of smelly untidiness , but the general effect was of a room somebody had made the best of according to their taste , and enjoyed living in . |
| 28 | And he , for his part , was feeling so euphoric that instead of shouting to his son to get up and stir his stumps , he had actually gone in there and put the envelope on Adam 's bedside table . |
| 29 | The owner wished to find out whether such a relationship could be formulated and used to predict sales in other shops which he was considering adding to his chain . |
| 30 | El País of July 8 noted González " reticence on the question of human rights , which it said resulted from the Spanish government 's hopes of turning to its advantage a downturn in Morocco 's relations with France [ see p. 38354 ] . |