Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] [adv] [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did not go to playschool or kindergarten so going to primary school was a big event in my life . |
| 2 | The authority was opposed to the use of the equipment by its force and was ‘ very concerned that such weapons should not be used to quell public demonstrations or riots because of the likelihood of serious personal injury or death thereby resulting to individuals ’ . |
| 3 | Completing the AIB complement is a small secretarial and administrative staff and an information officer who is , in reality , the custodian of all papers , reports and information generally relating to aircraft accidents of all kinds throughout the world . |
| 4 | From the barren Sahara in the south to the fertile wine-producing plains of the north , Tunisia is a land of variety and surprise just waiting to be experienced . |
| 5 | The other end of the scale the erm Sun gets much of its editorial exclusives and material often running to five or six pages erm by covering the Royal Family erm in terms of language in that in the language used , the Sun erm tends to adopt a very simple writing style of one adjective erm sorry one verb and a number of adjectives with a couple of nouns , tends to be sentence went off around ten to twelve words and the design is also quite interesting because they like to sort of leave things out so you have a paragraph in normal type and then a paragraph in bold with big splodges next to it to highlight it . |