Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] to [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A good working relationship also enhances an officer 's intelligence system , more effectively bringing to his attention knowledge of pollutions for which the discharger or his neighbours may be responsible . |
| 2 | In response to the austerity measures introduced after the OPEC ban , including a three-day working week , they struck against the Conservative government of Edward Heath in 1975 , eventually contributing to its defeat . |
| 3 | The tall , lanky merchant was nervous and ill at ease , his hand constantly fluttering to his mouth or patting his greasy hair . |
| 4 | I did not use a tape recorder for these interviews , though one might have been helpful in some ways , though perhaps inhibiting to my informants in other ways . |
| 5 | he was merely pandering to his feelings did nothing for the children he left behind . |
| 6 | Not common or garden holes , not those bodily orifices so absorbing to his contemporaries . |
| 7 | I want to hear what you 've got to say now 'cos at the moment it 's hard enough listening to your gems to even contemplate buying what 's spouting out of your Arsenal . |
| 8 | To the end , he is merely listening to his subjects , respecting without judging them and keeping us , as readers , flush against them , indulging in their foibles and sharing their fantasies . |
| 9 | The altruistic model , where the solicitor acts only according to his instructions in the client 's best interests , is the source of the profession 's ‘ charismatic authority ’ . |
| 10 | Choose your type of moisturiser , not only according to your skin type , but also in relation to the climate . |
| 11 | That we may work together according to your will so that you may work for good in us . |
| 12 | The foresters , both riding and walking , and their pages take for a cart two , three or four shillings , from some more and from others less according to their means , and for a pack-horse twelve , sixteen or eighteen pence , to raise their fine which they have made with the warden for their appointment ; this to the great destruction of the King 's forest and the grievance of those who have woods in the forest , for they suffer the carriers to go quit all through the year without attachment , and yet the King has no profit … |
| 13 | As a way of dealing with a crisis this seemed repugnant — a bit like a child only turning to his parents when he or she wants something . |
| 14 | It was run on a shoestring at the best of times and Kelly was merely adding to his problems . |
| 15 | Alexander Macdonald had clearly abandoned much of that hospitable tradition , perhaps owing to his embrace of southern education , or perhaps as a reaction to the affection in which his late brother had been held . |
| 16 | Swallows mix their mud with grass so adding to its strength , and pile pellet on pellet to build cup-shaped nests on ledges beneath house eaves . |
| 17 | Professor Cunliffe 's conclusions were that it was the rising water-table and neglect of the drainage system which caused serious and periodic flooding , so leading to its abandonment . |
| 18 | She has to put her life back in order to rid her of Fred whose antics are only adding to her problems . |
| 19 | Taking pills or powders for headaches and stomach upsets is only adding to your system 's toxicity . |
| 20 | Our rotten mainmast began whipping sickeningly to and fro and required five men constantly clinging to its lee mainstay to cushion the strain . |
| 21 | The Emperor , who incidentally had wanted to pardon Orsini and his accomplice , only yielding to his ministers ' demand for execution when they pointed out that innocent people had been killed , tried to repair the damage done to the Entente . |
| 22 | Since you will be constantly referring to your picture for colour reference I would recommend keeping it under glass and just taping the sides very firmly to stop the flowers being damaged . |
| 23 | , he was only referring to his fear of Jack . |
| 24 | I suppose he does n't want to be seen to be just reacting to your letter he 's obviously started doing these things off his own bat anyway has n't he ? |
| 25 | The user is intended to behave exactly according to their instruction . |
| 26 | Ronny 's not gon na go anyway nattering to his mates I 've got ta get a I 've got ta go and get a to go with it two and ten eights fours in that seven , four seven and four seven , four , six six , five , ten , ace jack queen , king , how about that ? |
| 27 | ‘ No , I … was just going to my room . ’ |
| 28 | I remember at Oslo just going to my marks when from the crowd came a shout : ‘ Go on , Linford ! |
| 29 | I was just going to our Pam when you come in and of course Joe was saying what 's that like and I never . |
| 30 | It was n't so much the ageing process itself that sent my spirits plummeting — although greying hair and wrinkles were n't exactly adding to my self-esteem — as the realisation that time is marching on and I had better not waste a moment of it . |