Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [v-ing] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | he 's after , he 's been after trying to Captain the side |
| 2 | It might almost be worth coming to Court again . |
| 3 | It must be like going to sea in a haystack . ’ |
| 4 | We are just under one inch taller on getting up in the morning than we are on going to bed at night . |
| 5 | The local council is considering complaining to Parliament about the body known as the Malvern Conservators . |
| 6 | See if you can guess who our mystery Saint Nicholas is before turning to page five for the answer . |
| 7 | One way in which some writers have attempted to avoid this problem has been by appealing to literacy , as a case where the formal features of language can be claimed to make sense apart from context . |
| 8 | It was like reverting to childhood . |