Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [to-vb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Businessmen are banding together to bring to book those who illegally dump wagon loads of waste , and the Merseyside Development Corporation have backed the initiative with the introduction of video cameras to monitor the twilight activity . |
| 2 | If such links are not built , schooling will suffer from being not only detached from the lifelong vision of education and retraining which is foreseen by the CBI , the TECs and the NCVQ but also from appearing not to care about continuity , feed-through and quality assurance . |
| 3 | He trained with Chelsea last month before returning home to play in Russia 's 2–0 World Cup qualifying win against Luxembourg , but Chelsea manager Ian Porterfield is now confident of signing the £500,000-rated keeper . |
| 4 | SIXTY seven schools are squaring up to compete for £8,000 prize-money in The Northern Echo Schools Cricket Championships . |
| 5 | In an exchange of letters Rothermere said he could no longer support a movement which was becoming increasingly to believe in dictatorship , anti-semitism and the corporate state . |
| 6 | The Humbug ( Dascyllus aruanus ) is a good example and although not achieving the tactile relationship of the clowns , is usually found shoaling close to the anemone 's tentacles , darting away to hide in crevices around the anemone when approached . |
| 7 | The melting snow dripped mournfully from the trees and the slope leading down from the moor was a mass of little rivulets , cascading down to run into Hodge Beck . |
| 8 | Eyes downcast , she ate without speaking , pausing only to smile at Vi . |
| 9 | He strolled up the long arcade , pausing frequently to peer in shop windows at the expensive goodies . |
| 10 | So she began to speak , choosing her words with care and refusing steadfastly to talk about Johnny 's war , or of the little she knew of Johnny 's time . |
| 11 | The ITGWU also intended doing its bit , announcing that 17 of its Cork branches would take part in a march from the National Monument to County Hall in support of Raybestos on the day the County Council was meeting there to decide on planning permission . |
| 12 | What is more , people who move to the other side of the world can continue to vote for the Labour Party in UK elections : recent Tory legislation allows people living abroad to vote in elections back home . |
| 13 | It was here that he had become a doorman before going on to live in England . |
| 14 | ‘ Unix is not open , only ajar ’ , Harold Mead of Metron Data told delegates during a talk on capacity planning , going on to describe in detail how , despite the fact that while data for performance measurement and capacity planning is available from Unix through utilities such as sar , ps , mpstat ( on some multi-processors ) , acctcom and last , data was often presented with different formats and content that could easily make a nonsense of the figures . |
| 15 | Originally this was a track which followed a ridge of higher ground and later became a main route for Welsh drovers taking their cattle to be fattened in Northampton before going on to market in London . |
| 16 | Liverpool- born , Oliver was for five years a chorister at St Paul 's Cathedral before going on to study at Oxford University where he met with his first operatic success in The Duchess of Malfi . |
| 17 | Before going on to look at London Jamaican and Black London English in Chapters 4 and 5 , I shall discuss some relevant research and theory relating to Caribbean Creoles in Chapter 3 . |
| 18 | Before going on to look at re-entry and back to nursing courses in detail I would like to consider alternative routes of re-entry available to you first . |
| 19 | Well Bill 's just been on his s er tt supposed to be going over to see to Sue 's laying her paving slabs and everything |
| 20 | Come on you 're always going off to talk to people . |
| 21 | Luther did leave the community for good , going off to work in Darlington , where he married and settled down . |
| 22 | ‘ Now , I fancy him , ’ says Jaci , before rushing off to flirt with Michael Grade . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm going up to change for dinner . |
| 24 | They are very tolerant about boys ' mess in the home and untidiness generally , and in a sense they lay the foundations right from the very beginning of boys growing up to think of women as kind of household servants — this attitude , you know , boys will be boys and they make a mess and poor mum has to do all the washing . |
| 25 | Her bronzes are selling so well in Paris that she 's selling up to move to France … putting her unique English home on the market . |
| 26 | Well I do n't know , I think it 's a bit , it 's like Sheila , I mean when David first went out there that 's all she kept on about was going out to live in Australia . |
| 27 | Would more Government money in the home stop young girls going out to engage in prostitution ? |
| 28 | The replies ranged from ‘ not much ’ , because the school had a bursar , to ‘ all day ’ , because a non-teaching head ‘ has to do something all day ’ or because the head was always seen to be going out to talk about devolution ! |
| 29 | In the frightening new craze , youths take a cocktail of drink and drugs before going out to look for trouble . |
| 30 | For example , he takes more account of the findings of social psychology and of economics in recognising the limitations of the ‘ electronic cottage ’ scenario , in which people supposedly stop going out to work in factories and offices . |