Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] to [noun] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The commission criticized the Federal Aviation Authority ( FAA ) for only reacting to disasters and not doing enough to prevent them . |
| 2 | No we no she 'd got out the pool you see , she was I did n't recognize her , she said oh it looks like all the family 's here and I was only talking to Evelyn and , and I kept trying to place her and it was only when she said oh Rebecca was born a month after cos she 's died her hair a different colour , I did n't , just did n't recognize her at all . |
| 3 | Yet reluctance to use the word " God " does not mean that Buddhists deny the reality of Mystery with a capital M. For they believe in " Nirvana " as not literally referring to nothingness but to the enlightenment attendant upon the laying aside of barriers to it . |
| 4 | By contrast , those more oriented to hierarchy will handle organizational change ‘ by reallocating resources to new activities as opportunities arise ’ ( see also Kagono et al. , 1985 : 57–87 ) , thus contributing to differentiation and further specialization . |
| 5 | They agreed to extend the aid programme ( already applying to Hungary and Poland ) to Bulgaria , Czechoslovakia , Yugoslavia and ( pending unification ) East Germany , on the grounds that all four had made sufficient progress towards democracy and a free market economy . |
| 6 | This is shown in sample 2 , where six stitches have been used , but you can see nine stitches just as easily according to yarn and tension . |
| 7 | An irreducible hernia may strangulate , i.e. the contents of the sac of the hernia may be constricted so that the circulation is cut off thus leading to gangrene and eventually perforation of the bowel ( a surgical emergency ) . |
| 8 | Cos I 'm doing about what , about three hundred fi three hundred fifty miles a week just going to work and back |
| 9 | They reached the surgery door at the same time as the strange little group and , as they ushered their client in , he said , ‘ We were just going to Sheldrake and Woodall when we saw your plate on Broom House gate . ’ |
| 10 | Pushers were already selling to children and crime would soar as addicts sought money for drugs . |
| 11 | With this he faced the world , soon gravitating to Soho and the French pub , where he spent his last pennies . |
| 12 | A water supply was very slow coming to Baldersdale and never did arrive at Low Birk Hatt . |
| 13 | Just go up on the stage and just start just talking to people and suddenly they , get back ! |
| 14 | Maybe if we were teaching them properly they would know how to protest without just resorting to violence or vandalism of some type , without the first step being breaking the rules ; but we do n't . |
| 15 | But if you 're just generally talking to people and not actually asking anything of them , |
| 16 | He wrote her a brief note merely saying he had had to go home owing to illness and had found , on his return , that he was to report forthwith to the War Office . |
| 17 | You know like going to Cleethorpes and back , how you do |
| 18 | Like going to ants or the people . |
| 19 | In May I 'm hopefully going to Italy and , and in June to St Malo |
| 20 | Well like that 's good for a wee girl who 's still going to college and what not right ? |
| 21 | I thought it was a big world , for we were always going to conventions and special meetings where , so it seemed then , there were thousands of others like myself . |
| 22 | But in an increasingly urbanized society it took new forms more apparent to political opinion and more threatening to life and industry ; and there were very many more large populous areas devoid of the most elementary arrangements for disposing of waste or supplying pure water . |
| 23 | Some three weeks later they are still responding to queries and will continue to send out packs . |
| 24 | The Rugby League are still talking to sponsors and an announcement is expected on Thursday . |
| 25 | somewhere in Mexico , the central part of it where it 's still falling to bits and |
| 26 | In the debates over the last twenty years there has been considerable interplay of theological and sociological reasoning , with social scientists also contributing to papers and discussions . |
| 27 | He was both listening to suggestions and putting forward names that other people had suggested . |
| 28 | The major was also writing to Emma and a mother-of-three who worked in a northern factory . |
| 29 | With notable exceptions such as Clegg ( 1976 ) , many studies present empirically derived information arising from cross-national investigations , often relating to institutions and practices , which is then analysed and interpreted with no direct orientation towards theoretical considerations . |
| 30 | In these languages all nouns are classified ( they are in many other languages too ) , often according to shape and size . |