Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [v-ing] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We returned to our chamber and spent the rest of the day preparing for the banquet or listening to Doctor Agrippa . |
| 2 | ( 21 ) Performing or listening to period music . |
| 3 | This point is of course another criticism of the individualist philosophies of utilitarians and of economists who saw early man as a kind of Robinson Crusoe trying to interact with nature in isolation and according to ideas and institutions which he had created on the spot . |
| 4 | She reflected on the reasons why people in modern society have difficulty in expressing and ritualizing grief and responding to loss and bereavement experienced by others . |
| 5 | We gave chase using extra boost and climbing to height of 16000 . |
| 6 | When asked to explain this the boy remarked ‘ my father called me an ear'ole [ a ‘ crawler ’ or conformist ] once , in the second year , for playing football and coming to school ’ . |
| 7 | Rona and he had taken a few round one afternoon , drinking endless cups of tea and listening to platitudes ; a pattern of conversation with all the formality of a dance , first the weather , and then naive politics of the cost of living . |
| 8 | After pouring the tea and talking to Yanto for five minutes about nothing in particular , she turned to her husband . |
| 9 | Costs are escalating as pupil and student numbers rise and new initiatives like National Curriculum testing , teacher appraisal and reporting to parents are implemented . |
| 10 | So he went , hopping into his car and driving to Leicester every Monday and Thursday night for training , and Saturdays to play . |
| 11 | They saw fewer Satyajit Ray films now , and went less to Indian restaurants ; Eva gave up learning Urdu and listening to sitar music at breakfast . |
| 12 | Still-larger emperor penguins Aptenodytes forsteri , with longer incubation and chick-rearing periods , set back their courtship and laying to June ( mid-winter ) , incubate through the coldest months of July and August , and rear their chicks through early spring . |
| 13 | ‘ Nurseries provide the best possible start for children and give women choices about returning to work or returning to training . ’ |
| 14 | Installation , configuration and testing to RBG satisfaction of new equipment and software where installation specified . |
| 15 | The Apostle S. James was made Spain 's patron saint and according to legend , was brought by sea from Palestine and died martyred . |
| 16 | After travelling to the little mining village and speaking to Brown 's mother , ‘ I then set out to find him , having been told that he had gone to the pit with a barrow to fetch some coal . |
| 17 | The research produced will be of use to policy-makers , administrators and social scientists in promoting interdisciplinary work and adapting to changes in their disciplines . |
| 18 | listening and responding to stories , rhymes , poems and songs — familiar and unfamiliar . |
| 19 | Listening and responding to employees . |
| 20 | Instead of another row with her mother , she had decided that she must get to the bottom of things by going up to the Hall and speaking to Miss Hatherby , and she pedalled as fast as she could . |
| 21 | Rather different is the question of the other processes between setting type and going to press . |
| 22 | Those who favour dialogue and opening to Cuba are silenced — editors of the Miami Herald who recently suggested as much received death threats . |
| 23 | It is the contention of the polytraumatic theory that exactly the same thing occurred when the next fundamental change in subsistence-pattern occurred , namely that from hunting and gathering to agriculture . |
| 24 | Occasionally , the head of the house would commute up and down the river by paddle steamer during the week , visiting the Stock Exchange and attending to business , but apart from those few and the servants , the street was deserted . |
| 25 | He is married with three children and likes woodworking and listening to organ music . |
| 26 | In this time of new opportunity , as the Board is making arrangements to move to its new home and looking to developments in every area of service , we 've also recognized that opportunities abound for local parish initiatives to attract funding from a variety of places . |
| 27 | I was just a little kid , living at home and going to school — fifteen , but boy it was real exciting . |
| 28 | This distinction is absolutely vital because it uncovers and deals with the first major misconception of doubt — the idea that in doubting a believer is betraying faith and surrendering to unbelief . |
| 29 | Prices include postage and packing to UK addresses . |
| 30 | Deletion clones in the mouse homolog T160 ( 22 ) and in rat HMG1 ( 35 ) have delineated the HMG-box region alone to be sufficient for interaction and binding to DNA . |