Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 toilet training and , well not toilet training but reminding to go to the toilet , look at his hat did you read in the paper that George Best has had to spend half of his testimonial money on debts
2 He spent the entire morning with his legs crossed , not daring to go to the loo in case one of his colleagues was in there at the same time and came to the wrong conclusion . ’
3 Bren was dying to go to the pub .
4 I even went , I was dying to go to the toilet so I thought oh I 'll go down to the big er and I had no toilet paper so I 'll go down to the big toilets and shower rooms .
5 ‘ And how did she know he was dying to go to the match ? ’
6 The disk is small and ill-defined with the arms appearing to continue to the middle of the disk .
7 This family is characterised by the disk being ill-defined or constricted with the arms appearing to continue to the centre of the disk in some genera ; the disk may be covered with skin or a dense coating of granules ; the long and narrow radial shields ; the reduced papillae on the jaw with only the apical papillae well developed and the oral papillae small , like enlarged granules ; the genital slits situated vertically on the sides of the disk ; the arms long and covered with skin or granules .
8 The waitress , feeling like she has done her best , storms off with tears brimming to talk to the manager .
9 Not one of Norrington 's finest recordings then , but one that at least has one rethinking these delightful scores in the wake of countless recordings that have found me positively itching to get to the end !
10 Yet she was itching to move to the metropolis and bombarded her parents with subtle and not so subtle requests .
11 My memories of cardiac teaching rounds are of a dozen students queueing to listen to a murmur while the registrar stood at the end of the bed swinging a stethoscope and staring out of the window .
12 Therefore , refusing to proceed to a census point ( or a traffic survey being carried out on or in the vicinity of a road ) is now an offence under this section .
13 She had never visited it before , and looked around her with interest , remembering to go to the kitchen entrance .
14 It seems , though , that even if you are being reasonable in refusing to agree to a change , that does not necessarily mean that it is unfair to push the change through and dismiss you because of your reluctance to go along with it .
15 One covenant which far too frequently causes legal problems concerns the reasonableness ( or otherwise ) of a landlord in refusing to consent to a tenant assigning his leasehold interest to another person .
16 In the West Indies the incident of wanting to go to the airport , and the fact that he turned up late for matches a number of times , had gained him a reputation for lack of discipline .
17 COUNCILS have been accused of refusing to come to the rescue of hard-pressed small firms struggling to meet their Uniform Business Rate demands .
18 Many of the East Germans assumed West Germany had again dug into its pocket to ‘ buy out ’ East Germans seeking to come to the West .
19 Wycliffe said : ‘ Before we have to turn him loose which we shall , get Lucy Lane over to Flushing to talk to the girl . ’
20 The weekend had begun with a briefing from the Major and from a purported Russian spy seeking to defect to the west and who , meanwhile , was staying in a safe house .
21 So the membrane then hyperpolarizes , but the stimulus is still present , and that 's tending to lead to a depolarization , so we get then this circle of membrane depolarization followed by hyperpolarization , but it 's the calcium activated K channels which are tending to restore the membrane potential to negative values .
22 With Britain 's roads becoming more crowded and dangerous , cyclists are looking to escape to the countryside in the Forest of Dean .
23 Opinion is tending to veer to the view that the wind has merely modified pre-existing sand accumulations left by other agencies , including the sea .
24 On May 15 six former East German leaders were charged in connection with the May 1974 " shoot-to-kill " order which resulted in the death of more than 200 people seeking to escape to the West across the inter-German border .
25 From the age of 16 , when he left Alleynes School in a fit of pique after refusing to submit to a prefect 's caning , he resolutely bucked the system .
26 She was so vulnerable to him that part of her was already accepting that defeat was inevitable , that only Luke could be the one to end their affair , but at the same time pride was demanding resistance , refusing to submit to the humiliation of a physical surrender to the man who had called her a liar , accused her of infidelity — the man who had hurt her so badly .
27 They have failed to endorse the Australian move and are refusing to contribute to the compensation fund .
28 I HAVE recently joined a National Economic Development Council working party on European public purchasing , which is seeking to contribute to the opening up of public sector purchasing in the EC .
29 If the authorities intervened in the gilt-edged market to support prices , they would be tending to add to the liquidity of the banking system .
30 " I have , of course , contributed to the difficulty by taking my suspicions to the police — I ca n't blame you for wanting to get to the bottom of things .
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