Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [adv] [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Communist parties inevitably lost credibility as a result of staunchly adhering to the Comintern line throughout the series of volte-face involved in the Nazi-Soviet pact of 1939 and the subsequent German invasion of Soviet Russia in June 1941 . |
| 2 | ( It is bizarre that people who have no intention of ever returning to Britain have more democratic rights than those living rough on its streets . ) |
| 3 | But I think all the silliness is all part of actually adjusting to the condom , and something to do with the embarrassment that because they do n't know enough about it they , they do n't want to be er , seen to be silly |
| 4 | erm erm Brian calls us experts at the beginning of the programme erm everyone listening knows we ca n't all be experts of course on all these things , we 're just sort of amateurishly trying to be sensible on these questions . |
| 5 | Cos I was sort of like listening to my music and it was , I think it was about half eight , nine o'clock cos I 'd only got some homework done for ne , to do for next Tuesday , so I thought I 'll leave it |
| 6 | From then on , she trips and twirls like a prima donna at an infant ballet class , gurgles and squeaks to the point of practically begging to be mercy killed , and generally flaunts a dodgy child sexuality that is neither funny nor subversive , but is stupid and dangerous . |
| 7 | It is frustrating on occasions when a side puts together an exciting movement of forwards interpassing to be concluded by a piece of driving play which eventually comes to a halt and the opposition get the put-in . |
| 8 | Erm so quite apart from fro from that , this approach to the whole question concentrating on parental investment and female choice would not only make us sensitive to female choice in the sense of either submitting to a male or not but secondly it would make us er wonder what happened even after a female had mated and we could predict could n't we that females ought to be discriminating abou about the subsequent fate of any fertilized erm zygote and indeed there 's plenty of evidence to show that human females highly discriminated and far from passive even after they 've been fertilized . |
| 9 | Ex-inmate Tony Cohla told yesterday how the thought of ever returning to Ashworth makes his blood run cold . |
| 10 | without perhaps compromising in some way of actually saying to you in January . |
| 11 | It resulted in the erm extra requirement for security which does happen to which Mr has referred and I I think it 's it 's very very important to realise that if that three party cooperation can be achieved as it should be , bearing in mind what Simon says that we are going to have to do this , with horrendous problems in the youth and community project in the future and we would be failing completely in our duty , not just to the people of Highfields , but to the people of this whole county if we simply allowed politics , as has been done in the past , to lead to entrenched positions and the idea of simply saying to the director , we are in a mess therefore will you please deal with it all is I think wildly irresponsible and I 'm very very surprised indeed that erm that point should be put . |