Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [adv prt] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Your book ? ’ she enquired , doubtfully , angry with herself for allowing domesticity to prevent her from keeping more up to date with the literary news . |
| 2 | They have been around for a very long time , as I said , dating right back to Model Book 35 in fact , which appeared in 1982 . |
| 3 | Cos I could n't be bothered and I was n't dressed and it would be going all over to south London . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'll be going straight on to Midnight Mass , ’ Oscar said . |
| 5 | The survivors I have interviewed mostly remembered going straight on to piece-work and staying there , although in larger offices , like Clark 's , some experienced Women workers did become stab hands . |
| 6 | But by that time four of the enemy ships were wrecks , one was aground and two of the remainder sufficiently damaged to make it doubtful whether they would ever reach their home ports — which was most evidently the hope of the survivors , as they went through the difficult , desperate business of turning in the confined space and heading back out to sea . |
| 7 | as I say Pam and her husband are going back down to villa erm in June I mean Val wants me and Rudy to go down to the villa , they 're going from July to the end of September this , this year , probably for longer , but erm |
| 8 | Scientists , just like former communists , are going joyfully back to church . |
| 9 | People were moving slowly off to east and west . |
| 10 | Moving right up to date , Johnny is now signed to Virgin 's Point Blank label , and his first release — titled ‘ Let Me In ’ — has already been nominated for a Grammy award . |
| 11 | Moving right up to date , Andres Gomez scored a popular point for Ecuador in 1990 , while the two most recent Grand Slam debutants were Monica Seles , who first won the French title in the same year and who retained it last year , and the current men 's title holder , the American Jim Courier . |
| 12 | While all this is going on , far away to the north the volunteers of the Royal Engineers have arrived and are getting straight down to work . |
| 13 | Stepping out on to grass she turned and knew that she was one of the few in all history and legend who could safely look a dragon in the eye . |
| 14 | The Volvo left the ground for precious seconds , flying through the air before finally crashing back down to earth with a sickening jolt that jarred every bone in her body . |
| 15 | The Marines were staring morosely out to sea , when a glimmer of unusual movement caught their eyes . |
| 16 | By the same token , however , they may now be tacking fitfully back to growth while Germany and , to a lesser extent Japan , linger in relative doldrums . |
| 17 | She wanted to postpone any thoughts of coming back down to reality for as long as possible . |
| 18 | ‘ When you create chances , especially against Hearts , and do n't take them , then you ca n't have any complaints , ’ admitted McLean after literally coming back down to earth . |
| 19 | The headmaster gestured towards the window , still uncurtained , but giving out on to pitch blackness . |
| 20 | Or , rather , that was my excuse to myself when the letter first arrived and sent me sailing up on to Cloud Nine . |
| 21 | For lid sitting down on to container , the single excursion in the container relationship must be opposite to that for the lid and one of the possible five in the other relationship . |
| 22 | Suddenly the sound of a door , of someone coming in from outside , brought Leith tumbling , falling back down to earth . |
| 23 | Performance indicators quickly became used as a diagnostic tool to " inform " the accountability reviews which in turn developed " from departmental monitoring of broad strategies to deep monitoring of short-term operational plans and of control systems stretching right down to unit level " ( Harrison et al. |