Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [v-ing] to [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Going around listening to the fat and the rich of the land confessing their secret sins , and secretly mocking us every time we reach a stone wall and can go no further ? |
2 | On one sunny afternoon , when running and feeding a platen-machine ( by hand ) and sweating profusely owing to the heat , the rattle of the front-door bell told me to attend the counter . |
3 | ‘ It 's difficult to understand why he might have been moving badly going to the start — perhaps it was the dirt or maybe it was because the heat was so intense . ’ |
4 | ‘ It 's difficult to understand why he might have been moving badly going to the start , perhaps it was the dirt or maybe it was the heat . ’ |
5 | Erm so how much time are you spending just going to the school ? |
6 | These are powered by expansion , opening and closing automatically according to the temperature . |
7 | If the Community 's protectionism was met by US retaliation , the EC would lose $132 billion and the US $64 billion a year , while proving particularly damaging to the economies of Eastern Europe . |
8 | But he 's eating well going to the loo alright . |
9 | She ai n't looking at it — she 's carrying on talking to the man , but she keeps twisting the neck of this white duck . |
10 | The verbatim records have survived almost intact and enable the sequence of offers and counteroffers that should be made by bargainers behaving optimally according to the rules . |
11 | Up to that moment it can be in a state evolving smoothly according to the Schrödinger equation , gently and continuously trimming the balance between " here " and " there " . |
12 | There was no point sitting here yapping to a bunch of fucking prejudiced right-wing bastards . |
13 | I expected Father to chase me , but when I reached the corner and looked back he was just standing there talking to the thin man . |
14 | Stok was sitting there speaking to a telephone that looked like a prop from The Young Mister Edison . |
15 | You could HALVE the cost of insuring your home simply by shopping around according to the October issue of Which ? magazine . |