Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the employee 's option may not be the simple one of staying with the transferor or going over to the transferee . |
| 2 | The advantage is that there is no line , visible to the fish , coming from the bait , either on the surface or going down to the bottom . |
| 3 | First , where an elderly person had moved into the household of a younger generation relative , the latter often made extra purchases , ranging from an extra bed or bedding through to the construction of an additional bedroom , in order to provide the necessary accommodation . |
| 4 | Dr Edwin Pugh , director of public health medicine , said : ‘ Most accidents occur when children are in the street or straying on to the road as parents we must be completely vigilant . ’ |
| 5 | Pottering down to the library to exchange Colin Thubron for Jonathan Raban or dropping in to the Jacaranda Tree for a mushroom omelette , everything can seem orderly and secure . |
| 6 | Meanwhile , for one glorious day , millions were able to ‘ take action ’ and assuage a whole year 's guilt in one go , by writing a cheque , phoning in a credit card number , or trotting along to the local collection point with cash . |
| 7 | Cyclists should take particular care entering the route or emerging on to the road at the accesses . |
| 8 | Cyclists should take particular care when entering the route or emerging on to the road at the accesses . |
| 9 | But this will have to involve levelling up to the more advantaged rather than levelling down to the lesser , although future benefits can be reduced so long as diminution is applied equally to both sexes . |
| 10 | A determined show of political resistance from Mr Yeltsin and his supporters in other republics might help convince many old-fashioned Russian nationalists that hanging on to the Baltic republics is not worth a fight . |
| 11 | She parked outside the high brick wall rather than driving on to the forecourt , and as if he sensed her reluctance to enter the house again he did n't attempt to invite her inside — but neither did he make any attempt to get out of the car , and they sat in silence in the light from an overhead street-lamp . |
| 12 | Sleep is also very important for me , much more than going out to the newest disco or restaurant . |
| 13 | Whenever that happens , rather than going back to the track I play something else that will fit , or I leave it as an improvisational section , so to speak . |
| 14 | The times they are a-changing , however , and the Church is doing no more than facing up to the inevitable , as did the Anglicans as long ago as 1968 . |
| 15 | As a result , their efforts were diverted more towards devising non-custodial alternatives than facing up to the intractable problems of institutional confinement . |
| 16 | ‘ You know , Frank , ’ she said , ‘ I 'm going to take a great delight in telling her , much more so than facing up to the big boy himself , because she it is who has paved the way for all this . ’ |
| 17 | Similarly , in Leningrad the CPSU committee took sole control of the daily Leningradskaya Pravda and the weekly Leningradsky Rabochy , albeit handing over to the city soviet the daily Vecherny Leningrad . |
| 18 | The Electricity Privatisation Bill states that working up to the year 2000 supply companies must buy between 15 and 20 per cent of their energy from non-fossil fuel resources . |
| 19 | I drove to the hospital in Bangor with Nathan watching the road intently and hanging on to the handbrake . |
| 20 | Carrie had been listening intently , enthralled and hanging on to the union man 's every word , but she suddenly caught sight of Fred standing at the counter . |
| 21 | In all this , he was backed by Lavinia although her main interest lay in trying to keep their heads above water and hanging on to the estate . |
| 22 | Standing stork-like and hanging on to the various bathroom fittings , she cleaned her teeth and made a reasonable toilet . |
| 23 | The Immense parasites twining round the trees taking root some of them at the tops of the trees and hanging down to the ground , others surrounding the trees like a crown — heard the bell bird with his incessant ting ting , the coachwhip bird & c. — a heavy shower of rain accompanied by lightning — soon cleared up — every green thing looked more beautiful for its sprinkling . ’ |
| 24 | For a whiff the strong white birds floated proudly there , diving , clearing the weed , and waddling over to the house when my father summoned them , for food and to be shut up for the night . |
| 25 | The move towards NVQs and SVQs is taking place across all industries at all levels within the industry , from engineering and manufacturing through to the provision of health and social care , from the operative to the manager . |
| 26 | Every time he went into one of those phone-booths , he had a mental image of something going wrong , of a faster-than-usual trace , of a plain-clothes policeman being only a few yards away , taking the alarm on his personal radio and walking up to the phone-booth . |
| 27 | In a flash , I have her up off her skirt-covered backside and steaming on to the dancefloor . |
| 28 | I have done this myself , to ideal effect , getting into the car on a sunless July morning and driving up to the road tunnel of Bielsa , some dozen miles beyond Saint-Lary . |
| 29 | ‘ Especially when they see you getting into your Porsche , and driving off to the flat you own in Putney ? ’ |
| 30 | Standing in the Townley Room and looking through to the sculptures displayed next door ( Room 83 ) , most of which were intended for public display , one is well aware of the reduced scale and decorative qualities sought by the private collector who wined and dined amidst his collection . |