Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a few moments she stood watching him as with quick little movements he fed himself , his sharp eyes darting suspiciously from side to side . |
| 2 | The ginger tomcat glared up at her , its tail lashing furiously from side to side . |
| 3 | So , for the English edition , he has added five new chapters , consisting mostly of advice to America to balance his previous advice to Japan . |
| 4 | It seemed , nevertheless , early in 1956 that Washington and London were drawing together in opposition to Nasser . |
| 5 | ‘ Ah telt ye that before , ’ he recalled , his boozed eyes gazing emptily from side to side . |
| 6 | He stood there in her crotch , weaving sinuously from side to side , hunching his shoulders , his flat little head squealing down into her face . |
| 7 | This means checking personally from time to time the output from your area , whether it be a shoelace , a bottle of beer , a written report , half an hour 's advice or a telephone call to a client . |
| 8 | Now to do that effectively I think it 's essential that I get you to participate in what 's happening so from time to time I 'm going to ask you to answer questions , sometimes by writing them down , sometimes by shows of hands erm sometimes by er reacting back erm to the questions that I ask . |
| 9 | But added to that , I can well remember staying at Kettleborough Chequers erm and er walking along from Kettleborough to Brandeston erm th the very next morning after I 'd come here and I think it was before I think it was quite likely before we had we had actually met , I do n't know whether it was the first day or the second |
| 10 | Er it 's like kids or people walking through from Road to Road . |
| 11 | Instead , he was living in a north London flat and working weekdays in a City bank , returning home at night to a difficult marriage . |
| 12 | These arguments yield the curve in Fig. 6.1 , sloping downwards from left to right , becoming less and less steep and cutting the horizontal axis at the natural unemployment percentage . |
| 13 | There is no reason to suppose that these beautifully caparisoned vessels were in use only round the coast of Thera ; they were probably not intended for long voyages on the open sea , but we can imagine that very similar passenger ships plied round the coasts of Crete , gliding elegantly from bay to bay . |
| 14 | It also reflected a government preference for not pursuing a vigorous anti-monopoly policy or examining whether existing legislation in this sphere was operating successfully in relation to agreed criteria for business , and more general economic , performance . |
| 15 | Looking keenly from side to side , she walked quickly along the path in the direction taken by the boys . |
| 16 | Lurching slowly from side to side , becoming faster and steadier , the Vimy rose into the air followed by cheers from the spectators and smiles from the Vickers team . |
| 17 | He raised a hand with abrupt , convulsive passion and stroked her cheek , long fingers smoothing eloquently from temple to chin in a gesture of helpless apology . |
| 18 | Section 68 states , in essence , that if the Secretary of State is satisfied that any local education authority is acting unreasonably in relation to any power conferred on it , the Secretary may give directions as to the exercise of that power . |
| 19 | The use of computers within taxonomy is developing rapidly in response to these perceived limitations . |
| 20 | except then if you 're writing off for money to places like Telecom and it 's a national logo |
| 21 | The Act regulates the use of automatically processed information about living , identifiable individuals ( personal data ) which is held on computers and other ‘ equipment operating automatically in response to instructions given for that purpose ’ . |
| 22 | Entering it he could imagine her sitting there in the summer days and evenings , working on the papers which she occasionally contributed to ornithological journals and looking up from time to time to gaze out over the headland to the sea and the far horizon , could see again that carved , weather-browned Aztec face with its hooded eyes under the grey-black hair , drawn back into a bun , could hear again a voice which , for him , had been one of the most beautiful female voices he had ever heard . |
| 23 | She was trembling now from head to foot . |
| 24 | The Act is very wide ranging particularly in relation to the adjective ‘ identifiable ’ and subjects have considerable rights of inspection and amendment of their own records . |
| 25 | It screamed along the tunnels , its banshee-wail bouncing madly from stone to stone . |
| 26 | A grass snake swimming obligingly from island to bank in full view of watchers . |
| 27 | The tail of an all-black cat , severed and buried under the doorstep of a house , was considered to be a way of preventing all members of the family living there from succumbing to sickness and ill health . |
| 28 | Then by looking prospectively from census to movement in the period 1971-74 , the project tests whether the characteristics and circumstances associated with movement in 1966-71 were also associated with movement after the census . |
| 29 | ‘ However , they are also looking forward with excitement to returning to Nepal . ’ |
| 30 | Under the leadership of Frau Gisela Klötzer and Frau Gabi Christ-Schröder , we have put together a team of students in their third semester of training who are looking forward with excitement to their performances in England . |