Example sentences of "[adv] to [v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It owes much to acting of charm and conviction from Michael Crawford and Sarah Long as the boy and girl , ’ wrote the Coventry Evening Telegraph critic . |
| 2 | If all went well with the Air Services package agreed in June 1992 , EEC airlines would be able to fly between whatever airports in different countries within the Community they chose ( subject only to complying with safety and noise standards and assuming the availability of ground and air space ) and charging the economic fares they chose . |
| 3 | Former Praxsys president Tripp Blair , who like the rest of his small team is now a Sun employee , said Snoopy is near the end of its development cycle and close to going into test and verification . |
| 4 | He did come close to going on pension once at the age of 75 he sent off a perfunctory letter asking for retirement . |
| 5 | On May 8 Chamlong led another large rally at Democracy Monument , where some demonstrators came close to clashing with riot police . |
| 6 | The recovery of the economy was already under way by the spring of 1961 , and probably owed less to the steps mentioned and more to spending on defence and space exploration . |
| 7 | Having been reduced now to travelling on foot , he could not make the return journey to Bristol in a day , and Sara too often found herself left lonely and uneasy in a cottage whose attractions were not increased by the coming of winter , or by neighbours who were ‘ a little too tattling and inquisitive ’ . |
| 8 | You are warned that cats do not take kindly to walking to heel like a dog , and prefer to walk alongside you . |
| 9 | But they came the closest to looking like husband and wife so far when Charles handed Diana his pen after signing the visitors ' book at an Anglican Cathedral . |
| 10 | He was only missing from Palace line-ups from that time as a result of injury or illness , though his playing record demonstrates that he was prone to neither , and it was while we had Billy Callender in goal that Palace came closest to returning to Division 2 in 1928–29 , when we finished as runners-up to Charlton on goal average . |
| 11 | The Etude retrouvée that he also plays is one that the composer did not use in the final set ; although it has the same title and key as Pour les arpèges composés , it is otherwise quite different and a splendid piece which pianists will look forward to seeing in print . |
| 12 | ‘ I feel comfortable in this position and I 'm looking forward to getting into contention , ’ said McAllister . |
| 13 | Church and Primary School no I 'm not looking forward to going into French . |
| 14 | But for the first time , shortly before his death , he had stopped looking forward to going to work . |
| 15 | The situation did n't improve much during the rest of the week and for the first time since Rachel had been working at OBEX she found herself not looking forward to going to work in the mornings . |
| 16 | ‘ Anyway , I am looking forward to going to court — so there ! ’ |
| 17 | For God 's sake , sometimes I even look forward to coming into work to read what has been said ! |
| 18 | I look forward to keeping in contact . |
| 19 | On one day he would articulate his awareness that his life-span would be short ; on other days he would speak vibrantly to the issue of looking forward to returning to work , to what type of work he would be doing in the future , and so forth and so on . |