Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [v-ing] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wounded during the robbery , Roth ( Mr Orange ) actually spends most of the movie slowly bleeding to death , while Harvey Keitel ( the sentimental old-time thief Mr White ) , Steve Buscemi ( the motormouth obsessive Mr Pink ) and Michael Madsen ( the quietly psychopathic Mr Blonde ) bicker and brawl about who sold them out . |
| 2 | Again , the liability depends upon the money or property in question being received in the ordinary course of the receiving partner 's activities within the firm and not upon any authority vested in himsee Willett v Chambers ( 1778 ) Cowp 814 ( misapplication of moneys received from a client for investment on mortgage , the client being billed in the name of the firm ) , Rhodes v Moules [ 1895 ] 1 Ch 236 ( partner absconding with bearer share warrants proffered by client as collateral security for a mortgage loan , where the firm was in the habit of receiving such securities from its clients ) and Blair v Bromley ( 1847 ) 12 Ph 354 ( misapplication of money by a partner who paid interest on it to the client , the fraud only coming to light on the partner 's bankruptcy . |
| 3 | Continue along the coast soon keeping to left of lighthouse buildings at St Abb 's Head ; briefly join lighthouse road , but it is best almost immediately to divert off it to rejoin cliff-top for sea views . |
| 4 | Could there really be a building site in the middle of this swamp rapidly reverting to nature after a brief and unsuccessful flirtation with civilization , Zen wondered ? |
| 5 | Inhabits , lower levels than Ptarmigan , tundra , arctic prairies with birch and willow scrub , and heather moors and bogs ; in winter sometimes descending to farmland . |
| 6 | Official sources were yesterday unable to explain why the restrictions had been brought in , including whether they had been designed to reduce the risk of leaks to loyalists of the type recently coming to light . |
| 7 | Social workers and the courts are facing a problem which has defeated the best efforts of families and professionals ; whatever the wording , few courts will be willing to gamble on children whom they refuse to commit to security not returning to prostitution , burning down a house , or injuring themselves . |
| 8 | Surgical treatment of severe chronic constipation not responding to medication had an inconsistent and unsatisfactory outcome , resulting sometimes in intractable diarrhoea requiring a definitive terminal ileostomy or in persistence of abdominal pain , bloating , and discomfort . |
| 9 | Bit of writing , bit of tennis , bit of reading ( to kill time ) , few beers in the evening before going to bed thinking what a waste my life is . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The subsidies of 1514 , 1515 , and 1516 abandoned the separate assessment of the peerage by rank and levied taxation entirely according to income . |
| 12 | The results of these changes are a leakage of pepsinogen into the circulation leading to elevated plasma pepsinogen levels and the loss of plasma proteins into the gut lumen eventually leading to hypoalbuminaemia . |
| 13 | Cos I 'm doing about what , about three hundred fi three hundred fifty miles a week just going to work and back |
| 14 | The other point that raises from the agreement is that we have to agree , agree a purchasing plan with the Health Authority particularly relating to nursing home care , and that purchasing plan at the moment is still at the draft stages because as Mike referred to earlier , we have no information from the Department of Health on the percentage of the funding to be spent in the independent sector . |
| 15 | The chairman wrote to the Director of Highways regarding the survey taken at Baberton/Foulis Crescent in connection with the difficulty of pupils of Currie High School crossing Lanark Road in the morning when going to school . |
| 16 | ‘ Oh , Dorothy my dear , there is a poor dog absolutely stifling to death in a car outside . |
| 17 | Overactivity by the parasympathetic can also result in bowel disturbances , or contraction of the bronchi producing asthma , or over-secretion of acid by the stomach eventually leading to stomach ulcers . |
| 18 | Villa 's sharp shooters , mounting a serious championship bid , switch their sights to the Coca-Cola Cup tonight aiming to gun down Oxford . |
| 19 | Progress on these areas of activity should be detailed , with a statement also relating to achievement of targets . |
| 20 | Death was treated with a certain deference , although the passing of a sitting MP was regarded either as a blessing in disguise ( ‘ never liked him ’ ) or , if the Party was unpopular , as a confounded nuisance , a by-election inevitably leading to exposure , expense and humiliating defeat . |
| 21 | So we 've cleansed off the cleanser now going to tissue dry Now toner is in a spray bottle , so we 're going to gently use the spray over Molly 's face . |
| 22 | To claim that Britain has nurtured something in a matter ultimately pertaining to worship ( the choral singing of cathedral and chapel ) which is purified and controlled beyond anything possessed by Catholic Europe , which is purged of excessive artifice and rhetoric ( Continental reviewers consistently find English a cappella performances impassive ) and whose excellence gives Britain a mission these are among the ideas that have been the principal source of British national identity since the Act of Union in 1707 and were a foundation stone of English identity long before . |
| 23 | Trestles were being set up along both sides of the room , but only a few sombrely dressed ladies were seated , the rest of the company apparently preferring to mill about in the centre of the hall . |
| 24 | Now confidence has burgeoned , and they are looking the most complete side in the First Division , secure in defence and incisive in attack ; and , with a squad gradually returning to strength , they could dominate the second half of the season . |
| 25 | He is seen here later in the year after posting to East Africa , with a Curtiss Mahawk in the background . |
| 26 | He was educated at the Royal Belfast Institution and then at Queen 's University , Belfast , studying science in his first year then switching to philosophy . |
| 27 | A distinction must be made between nociceptive pain not responding to morphine ( paradoxical pain ) and over-morphinisation . |