Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [art] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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1 | Other typical signs indicating a problem with sharp teeth are , as already mentioned , the evasion of the bit and the horse quidding while eating ( food drops out of the mouth ) ; nodding while being ridden , hanging on the bit to one side , ie pulling on one rein and , in more extreme cases , rearing and bolting. teeth should be left until they are mature . |
2 | I decided to try the Power Tool in two ways : the first using a stack , with the amp set to full shred ; the second with a Vox AC30 on full tilt , but with the Power Tool bringing down the volume to bedroom level . |
3 | It 's like tumbling down a whole to your earholes from the start is n't it ? |
4 | In the cases that followed ( ie the disposal of the whole of the matrimonial home to the wife ( Chapter 3 ) ; a conveyance of the husband 's interest in the matrimonial home to the wife ( Chapter 4 ) ; and the conveyance of the husband 's interest in the matrimonial home to a third party ( Chapter 5 ) ) , once the husband had disposed of his interest no further tax considerations applied so far as the husband was concerned ( unless there was an element of gift involved in the conveyance not at arm 's length and the husband died within seven years , thus bringing in a charge to inheritance tax ) . |
5 | Walking down the Promenade to the Albion Hotel for luncheon , with Samuel striding ahead like Stonewall Jackson , and Gwendolen having found an apparent soul mate in Lord Beddington , Oliver found himself forced to walk next to Angelina . |
6 | Formalities did not take long , and in no time they were riding upwards in the lift and then walking along a corridor to the door of Ven 's suite . |
7 | As Leader of the Opposition , in November 1965 he decided against signing personally a foreword to the report which it had been agreed should be published as a pamphlet by the Conservative Political Centre . |
8 | Conservative Central Office has been inundated with jittery reports from regional Tory organisers , but is banking on driving home the message to a receptive audience that a vote for the Liberal Democrats would effectively open the door of Downing Street to Mr Kinnock . |
9 | Information technology is playing , and will increasingly continue to play , a major role in opening up the curriculum to people with disabilities . |
10 | You could be opening up the way to new prosperity . |
11 | By doing business , inviting foreign experts to work and teach inside China and opening up the country to the world , progress seemed certain . |
12 | To return to the point made by the hon. Member for Islington , South and Finsbury ( Mr. Smith ) , this is all about transparency and opening up the process to much greater public scrutiny , so that the public can see what is going on , the taxpayer can see what his or her money is being spent on and the customer can see the standard of service being contracted to be provided . |
13 | In opening up the debate to the floor , Inez stressed hopes for democratic discussion , respect for differing and varying views . |
14 | It was a turning point for the business and set Thomas Cook on the road to opening up the world to men and women who had not dreamed of travelling before . |
15 | Measures aimed at opening up the economy to foreign investment and the privatization of state companies continued apace throughout November . |
16 | The two bombs were attached to the hull of the Rainbow Warrior , berthed at Marsden Wharf , at around 8.30 p.m. and at about 9.30 p.m. a man wearing a red woollen hat was seen abandoning a Zodiac dinghy near the Outboard Boating Club in Hobson 's Bay and then climbing up the embankment to Tamaki Drive where he was picked up and driven off in a camper van . |
17 | The Doctor ignored them , climbing up the scaffolding to the roof of the dome . |
18 | Instead I was looking down the quay to where a pathetically thin girl was walking beside a smartly dressed woman . |
19 | Looking down the meadow to the cabin , he saw no sign yet of the other four but the Eel was very close . |
20 | Looking up the hillside to the north from this point , the splendid cairn of Josse Pike can be seen prominently . |
21 | For a child who was reliant upon charity it was difficult to escape the determining rules which governed the public understanding of ‘ training up the child to be the man ( for woman ) ’ . |
22 | Chrissie shouted to him , oi , where are your Beatle boots then ? and started bashing out the rhythm to ‘ Glad All Over ’ on the table . |
23 | It normally takes six months from filling out a form to getting permission to emigrate . |
24 | This almost welcoming message kept her going down the raccordo to Siena . |
25 | The Doctor let the wall hanging fall back into place , and hurried out , turning down the hall to the bedroom . |
26 | ’ We 're not turning over the phetam to the FedPol , ’ I told her . |
27 | There is a widely held view among many business experts that selling off a business to a management buy-out team is the easy way out and is not in the best interests of a company 's shareholders . |
28 | Work habits ( such as waking up every day to an alarm clock ) that often flow over into responsible social attitudes ( such as being a good father ) are not being learnt . |
29 | But so clearly visible and definitely new since the previous evening was a set of footprints , and looking around , a set of tracks , small hob-nailed boot tracks going up the staircase to the top and not coming down . |
30 | The directors of the firm kindly gave B U permission to borrow a Tacker for the exhibition and after Le Leicester branch arranged a temporary replacement , Taffy began working , cleaning up the machine to showroom condition . |