Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [adv] [v-ing] to " in BNC.

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1 Its arm fell off , clattering to the deck with the Perk still clinging to it .
2 Their search took them to six countries , with the contract finally going to Toronto-based Lovat .
3 It was ten minutes before he followed her , finding her in the kitchen apparently listening to a mid-Saturday morning news flash on the radio there with blank-eyed concentration .
4 ‘ In a largely illiterate society this oral epic singing also had the function roughly corresponding to the modern mass media — it spread the political news , much more slowly but perhaps not less reliably than the modern press , radio and television . ’
5 FOR progressively smaller values of T , until T is small alter the switches repeatedly according to this probabilistic rule .
6 Under most insurance systems , hospitals and health care providers supply services to insured patients and are then reimbursed for the services by the insurer either according to retrospective full-cost reimbursement , or according to prospective reimbursement .
7 Under most insurance systems , hospitals and health care providers supply services to insured patients and are then reimbursed for the services by the insurer either according to retrospective full cost reimbursement , or according to prospective reimbursement .
8 Additional gravity data indicate that the overall excess mass of the Huntly 7 basic intrusion is small , the intrusion possibly extending to a depth of no more than 2 kilometres .
9 As he uncovered them , he was confronted with the pageant , its gold and silverwork dazzling in the sunshine , and the weathercock gracefully bowing to the north in the breeze .
10 Univel Inc has outgrown the offices it was leasing from its parent Novell and has moved to new premises in the neighbourhood also belonging to Novell .
11 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 .
12 20.1 In the case of any dispute or difference arising between the parties hereto relating to this Agreement or any matter arising therefrom or incidental thereto the same may be submitted to the arbitration of a single arbitrator in accordance with the provisions of the United Kingdom Arbitration Act 1979 or any statutory modification thereof for the time being in force .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 Glues have improved since then , but the bows now coming to the fore are compound ones with wheels and pulleys and complex sights .
16 recognised that the situation might well have been different if , instead of the defendants simply threatening to ‘ black ’ the broadcast they had gone to the B.B.C. and said ‘ We wish it to be established as part of our conditions of employment that we are not required to work on broadcasts to South Africa . ’
17 Maybe it was the gin finally getting to him .
18 He was not reassured by hearing Bruce Davidson in the passage cheerily observing to Catherine that she was looking a bittie pale ; was it just the London air , or had she been burning the candle at both ends ?
19 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 .
20 In the corridor outside the classroom just listening to readers ?
21 Itchy anus , with the inflammation sometimes spreading to the buttocks and thighs
22 Two days of haggling on the price followed , with the seller reluctantly dropping to £3500 .
23 I was in Winchester for St Giles ’ Fair last month — ' he paused and shook his head ‘ — but ‘ t was a poor showing this year , half the town still needing to be rebuilt , and the other half with scarce two farthings to rub together .
24 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 .
25 Periodically they would devote an entire day to a communal fast , praying , reading aloud from the Bible , attending several sermons , and sharing a simple communal meal in the evening before returning to their homes .
26 Eventually it was time for bed and they waited until the middle of the night before sneaking to the workshop on tip-toes .
27 Theda 's eyes remained closed as the lumbering stagecoach rumbled its way from Newark , where she had caught it outside the Saracen 's Head , to Ashby-de-la-Zouch , where it would remain for the night before proceeding to Stafford .
28 On 15 October hastening back from Berwick , the king , the earl of Kent , Hugh Despenser the younger , and the rest of the court arrived at Bridlington priory where they spent the night before retreating to Burstwick , in Holderness .
29 If the child is n't in for the mark prior going to the doctors at ten o'clock they 're absent even if they have a note .
30 The memorandum was widely seen as a victory for the Chinese side in the negotiations , with the UK effectively agreeing to Chinese demands that it should be able to set its own terms for the size and financing of the project .
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