Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [adv] to [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dotty , apparently listening attentively to Desmond Fairchild , her hand on his arm , was looking at O'Hara . |
| 2 | Well we 're only going up to Eastgate now Jane . |
| 3 | But he was secure in his alibi , having spent the whole of the previous day in the Crown Court and the evening and night with friends at Norwich , only getting back to Chevisham in time for a late start that morning . |
| 4 | No comment is worth making on this bizarre suggestion , except perhaps pointing out to Professor Drife that a beard is n't precisely the right analogy . |
| 5 | With me coming from the North of England , everybody is pretty reserved up there at the best of times , so coming down to London and meeting Angie with an American accent and flitting around the room and speaking in a loud voice all the time , it was amazing . |
| 6 | Well , I know we 're rather looking forward to May when it , when it finishes till September |
| 7 | No , we 're not doing horoscopes just looking ahead to Saturday afternoon . |
| 8 | I am already looking forward to Atlanta in four years time . ’ |
| 9 | Have met strange old friend — just going round to Antonescu 's Clinic with him . |
| 10 | We 're just going up to Eastgate Bike Shop to try and get a cable that just snapped |
| 11 | When he got to Bec , Anselm at once spotted his quality , and he was soon sending back to Lanfranc a glowing account of Osbern 's progress : he was ‘ growing daily in knowledge and serenity ’ ; and the friendship between him and Anselm had become so close that they could not be separated without tearing their two souls apart . |
| 12 | I was just coming up to Scotland for a holiday . |
| 13 | Especially coming up , co , just coming up to Salisbury , coming up to all those roundabouts . |
| 14 | You 're just on the approaches to Jerusalem , you 're just coming in to Jerusalem right ? |
| 15 | Last year 's Best Actor contest saw Tom Cruise and Daniel Day Lewis competing wheelchair-to-wheelchair , with Cruise 's Ron Kovics ( Born on the Fourth of July ) just losing out to Day Lewis 's Christy Brown ( My Left Foot ) . |
| 16 | They were already coming here to Mazraa . ’ |
| 17 | She 's always sucking up to Ma . |
| 18 | They collided with the corridor wall , Cardiff still hanging on to Rohmer 's wrist . |
| 19 | You 'd feel just like going up to London wont you ? |
| 20 | The poetry book I had was Stevenson 's A Child 's Garden of Verses , and I read it obsessively , once going in to Smith 's in the High Road to ask if he 'd written any other poems . |
| 21 | He was probably always nipping down to Underwoods for a few grams of thallium . |
| 22 | While he spent the first month of his new appointment easing himself in and still nipping up to Edinburgh to round off one or two NHS tasks from London ( where he kept his home and from which he was commuting during his health job ) , many of the key decisions affecting the telecommunications industry over the next year or so have already been taken , so the learning curve will not have to be so dramatics last time . |
| 23 | He jumped to his feet , still holding on to Gilbert 's wrist , as a second strike hit the building . |
| 24 | An hour later , the Princess fell into a restful sleep , still holding tightly to Caroline 's hand . |
| 25 | After that , while never again did she stay long enough to have supper — or do the washing-up — Rosemary , still popping across to Leith 's and Sebastian 's flat at any time , accepted about two invitations in particular each week for coffee . |
| 26 | Houses on the outskirts of West Bromwich approach close on the right beyond long grass while more wild vegetation on the left stands at the top of a high embankment with a stream , pond , college and school at the foot , the land gradually rising again to Church Hill at Wednesbury . |
| 27 | Though the effect is purely symbolic , even poetic , as well as chilling , much of its force depends on rapidly cutting away to Marion 's car being pulled out of the lake — a banal , everyday detail of the investigation that almost makes us doubt whether we really saw that skull , previously forced on the viewer with horrifying shock impact in the cellar scene . |
| 28 | The A43 ; still running well to Northampton . |
| 29 | Hall offered her a job , and there she stayed for two years working sixty to seventy hours a week and still commuting back to Blackheath , except on press night , which would go on all night , once a fortnight . |
| 30 | THE politicians have now mounted the campaign trail in earnest with the days rapidly whittling down to April 9th . |