Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] to their [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And please let them be hanging on to their gossip and porter . |
| 2 | The half-acre of kitchen garden was as full of lilacs and wild raspberry canes , unpruned morello cherries and azaleas reverting easily to their ancestry , as it was of vegetables . |
| 3 | As the gloom of evening began to settle over the leafy canopy Paige carried her last bundle of kindling back to their campsite . |
| 4 | She beckoned to Monsieur Gauthier , who came bobbing across to their table . |
| 5 | Topics will vary in difficulty in a variety of ways according especially to their familiarity , their controversial or uncontroversial character , in degrees of abstraction and complexity and much else . |
| 6 | SPITFIRE — last minute replacements for the ironically ailing Dr Phibes — dig deep as well , living up to their name by frazzling the dreadheads with some painfully raw guitar trash . |
| 7 | The same theme is taken up by Hi-Tec , who are living up to their name — and their reputation — with the introduction of their new Tennis Twist shoe . |
| 8 | Living up to their name the love bird pair could n't stop reproducing . |
| 9 | The great public services will be more rewarding to work in , and more successful in doing their job , when their purpose is seen to be pre-eminently that of living up to their title — serving the public . |
| 10 | If the killer comes prowling around to their side of the tree , they simply dart to the blind side again . |
| 11 | The Dutch plan envisages people living closer to their workplace and without that happening it is hard to see how they will be persuaded to leave their cars at home . |
| 12 | Fans of the Fab Four of the 90s need not fret ( guitar pun there ) , the band are looking forward to their date at the Empire in August . |
| 13 | Tiptree spokesman Tim Huxtable said that they were looking forward to their day out , and that Peter Richardson , Michael Beckett , Rob Hadgraft , Gerry Madden , Liz James and the others were keen to make an impression . |
| 14 | By the time they 'd parked the car and were hurrying towards the station platform , the little girl 's enthusiasm had soothed her tattered nerves , and she was really looking forward to their day together in London . |
| 15 | After 2 defeats in a row at the Manor , Oxford United are probably looking forward to their trip to St Andrews to play bottom club , Birmingham . |
| 16 | I agree that the colleges are looking forward to their independence and to expanding the opportunities for further education available to our young people . |
| 17 | And now David did n't want any part of it , and she 'd been so looking forward to their sharing in the discoveries . |
| 18 | Abbey Donalds spoke to Jeffery and Bungle who were looking forward to their stay in Oxford . |
| 19 | So we 've got this group of people who are and just retired , they 're sixty-five and have just retired , and they 're looking forward to their pension le lo losing completely in two-and-a-half years time unless something 's done about it . |
| 20 | They left sticking close to their father and chatting happily to the crowds . |
| 21 | On several occasions they had er displayed guns where people would back into their driveway or er show some indication that they were going on to their property , then guns were revealed , people coming out of the the buildings out there with guns and what have you . |
| 22 | Years ago when I used to see the young masters going off to their boarding schools … you too , I used to envy you all . |
| 23 | But my other commitments prevent me from turning up to their committee meetings now so erm I 'm sort of stepping back on to I 'm just on to their mailing list . |
| 24 | Some parents complain that they feel rather awkward going up to their child , when ( for example ) she is not behaving badly , in order to say , ‘ You are painting so nicely , I really feel pleased ’ . |
| 25 | I mean , I do n't mind going up to their house , sitting down having a cup of tea and biscuit |
| 26 | Twenty thousand Ski Americans going back to their valley farms , after an evening infected with urban sleaze . |
| 27 | Erm which is points up a weakness there on the public relations side there I mean going back to their post share repurchase they said that they 'd got no new products in the pipeline , no research and development really sort of throwing anything up in the near future . |
| 28 | Accused of hen-stealing , fox and vixen had once again insisted on going back to their lair alone to look for feathers . |
| 29 | Aged heretics were hymning wailingly to their god-dictator , supervised by armed deacons . |
| 30 | His Grace has built some hundreds of houses , and is every year adding considerably to their number . ’ |