Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [v-ing] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This showed a girl removing her clothes in preparation for going to bed . |
| 2 | Reassessing the skills you bring back to nursing or health visiting can be a worthwhile preparation for returning to practice , even if you feel a poor judge of what skills might be most needed in the future . |
| 3 | The concept of continuing professional development has been fostered by the Board of Fellows in its recent work and members should now keep records of all their reading , lectures , seminars and conferences attended in order to support applications they may wish to make in due course for upgrading to fellowship . |
| 4 | FOUR ex-servicemen have been booted out of a British Legion social club after going to war over what they believe are missing funds of up to £250,000 . |
| 5 | True Brit Christie 's first action after storming to victory in just 9.96 seconds was to snatch a giant Union Jack flag from British fans and drape it around his shoulders for his rousing lap of honour . |
| 6 | The Sea Rover episode was the only occasion I have known a smuggling vessel to be fired upon directly during my time with the customs , as a result of failing to heave-to for customs examination . |
| 7 | Joe 's behaviour can also be s\described as mildly odd : his fear of returning to prison shows in his encouragement of the local children to play policeman games , telling them he will put bad boys into his private jail , and a sense of contrition over the faulty aircraft parts means he can not bear having anything the house that ought to be thrown away . |
| 8 | Richard Baxter 's ambition of going to university was never fulfilled . |
| 9 | For some years he had made a practice of writing to government departments about the grievances of seamen , addressing these also to prominent persons and sending copies to the press . |
| 10 | Teaching needs to be discussed in a much more rounded and comprehensive way , with far less emphasis on surface aspects like display and resources ; far more emphasis should be placed on the character of the minute-to-minute encounters which children have with teachers and each other , on the precise nature and purposes of the tasks they are given and The activities they undertake , and on the relationship of these and other aspects of the practice of teaching to learning . |
| 11 | Management in the ambulance dispute told Acas , the conciliation service , that they had no intention of acceding to union demands . |
| 12 | Williams maintained he has no intention of bowing to pressure from the French government by including a black player in their all-white touring party . |
| 13 | There are now two kinds of household : a minority where the wife does not work , and may have no intention of returning to work , to which the old expectations apply , and a rising majority of households with working wives for which the economics of childbearing have been reversed . |
| 14 | Only where the person using the foul language makes it plain that he has no intention of resorting to violence , and there is no bystander who is likely to be provoked by what the defendant is doing , is no offence committed under this section . |
| 15 | The existence of this body of appellate decisions in social security matters has the obvious effect of contributing to consistency of decision making not only by adjudication officers in their initial decisions on claims , but also by SSATs . |
| 16 | It seems there is a waiting list for uniform grants , because so many people can not afford to buy them and will not put their children through the humiliation of going to school without the proper uniform . |
| 17 | Covering yourself against the expense of going to law : Sue Fieldman describes schemes that insure a policyholder against the risk of legal expenses |
| 18 | In addition , the cost of equipment and armour , the quality of which could vary considerably , added greatly to the expense of going to war . |
| 19 | ‘ But , until we do , you can make yourself useful by binding up this hole in my arm before I give you the pleasure of bleeding to death . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ May I still have the pleasure of walking to World 's End with the both of you ? ’ |
| 21 | He waited until his two attackers — each to be paid £1,000 , with £500 expenses — disappeared in the dark before climbing to safety . |
| 22 | If there is any possibility of a period of supervised practice before returning to work it is worth taking , in addition to any period of standard reorientation . |
| 23 | Before this age parents can be given ideas about encouraging children to go to the lavatory before going to bed , and waking them at the parents ' bedtime so providing another chance to empty their bladder . |
| 24 | Patients were asked to empty their bladder before going to bed , noting the precise time and discarding the urine . |
| 25 | Born in Brno , Czechoslovakia , in 1929 , Kundera worked as a labourer and a jazz musician before turning to writing . |
| 26 | She found no sexual pleasure in going to bed with strangers , but , in contrast with the rest of her week , she was comforted by the feeling of being thought desirable , of having someone 's arms around her , of warm cuddling beneath the quilt . |
| 27 | They greeted Taheb with pleasure before turning to Huy with more guarded expressions . |
| 28 | That certain carcinogens exert their effect without binding to DNA is well known . |
| 29 | ‘ But one day I was sitting at home , doodling around the 12th fret and trying to figure out how I could play in a minor key without having to retune the guitar . |
| 30 | Both Michelle , 22 , and Lisa , 19 , have lost a lot of weight since going to prison . |