Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] to [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After that , he merely sat , smoking Woodbines and idly listening to Music While You Work on the radio . |
| 2 | The risk of events occurring prior to the Balance Sheet Date but only coming to light after the Accounts have been signed off should be placed on the Vendor . |
| 3 | And so finely tuned is its sense of hearing and its appreciation of timing that it will go on feeding until the very last minute , only springing to safety after the rattler has launched its otherwise deadly final strike . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 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 | ‘ I was just going to bed when the police came . |
| 10 | Window firm director Norman Waller , 34 , was just going to bed when he saw youths damaging a Vauxhall Cavalier belong to neighbour Bob Fay , Newcastle Crown Court was told . |
| 11 | Our spirits were already beginning to flag when I received a letter from Eliot dated 2 June : |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Well like that 's good for a wee girl who 's still going to college and what not right ? |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ Some of them were still standing to attention as they fell . |
| 17 | In these languages all nouns are classified ( they are in many other languages too ) , often according to shape and size . |
| 18 | Even this type of housing , however , is not always allocated solely according to need and council tenants are expected to pay economic rents , i.e. rents that would be charged in the private market . |
| 19 | 20% Conflicts over routine physical habits ( e.g. going to bed or the toilet , etc . ) |
| 20 | These sensations are the first acute symptoms of anxiety , often leading to hyperventilation and to the initiation of catastrophic panic thoughts . |
| 21 | Some of the answers are only now coming to light as we find out more about the structures of the proteins that go to make up living cells themselves . |
| 22 | The full impact of last Thursday 's freak storm in Llandudno , Conwy and the surrounding areas is only now coming to light and it could be several months before some of the 500 people forced to leave their homes will be able to return . |
| 23 | Witches were also particularly threatening to fertility and sexual potency . |
| 24 | ‘ Some work , ’ Piers said , ‘ on a certain house , which was n't finished quite according to schedule because of a certain lady who turned my world upside-down . ’ |
| 25 | about being tired and the same thing happened , waiting on them coming in and then going to bed and I could n't get over |
| 26 | When it comes to referral anecdotal reports suggest that informal gratuities are being paid by specialists to doctors for referring patients , potentially leading to overinvestigation and overtreatment . |
| 27 | The last step but one creaked protestingly and she grimaced apprehensively , her body almost turning to stone as she waited for Dane to suddenly appear and demand to know what she was doing . |
| 28 | Have you ever thought about like maybe going to college or ? |
| 29 | At the end of the Saturday debate we were in more disarray than at any stage since either coming to power or Margaret Thatcher taking over the leadership . |
| 30 | However , the pattern varies considerably according to region and social class . |