Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , in er mammals wha you could say what was happening in mammals is that males are competing for access to uteruses . |
| 2 | Such criteria have , therefore , to be general and highly flexible allowing for sensitivity to people 's aspirations . |
| 3 | And I suppose , thought Fenella , with a sidelong glance at her companion , that I shall have to find a suitable way , an acceptable way , of explaining about Nuadu to Caspar . |
| 4 | Eight hundred oarsmen and women will be rowing through Herefordshire to Wales in the River Wye Raft Race . |
| 5 | After around ten to fifteen years in practice , successful barristers can consider applying for promotion to Queen 's Counsel , known as ‘ silk ’ from the material of which the QC 's formal gown is made . |
| 6 | This explicit relating of theory to practice is a feature which is all too often missing in texts written about language teaching . |
| 7 | Returning via Paris to New York , Pérez de Cuéllar reported to the UN Security Council on Jan. 14 the lack of success in his discussions with Saddam Hussein . |
| 8 | She insisted on driving with Murphy to Bodmin to meet her parents . |
| 9 | It can be seen that a long list of students ( or any other units ) could be used for a random sample by this means simply by numbering from beginning to end , and this could be done with an automatic increasing numbering stamp . |
| 10 | A cat or monkey using its perceptual powers in leaping from wall to wall , or branch to branch , needs some representation of stability and support . |
| 11 | It darted up a tree with breathtaking ease , and the young man watched it leaping from bough to bough , as light and airy as a puff of grey smoke . |
| 12 | The tips of the fingers and toes are equipped with sucker-like discs that help them to cling on , and the long tail is used as a balance and brake when leaping from branch to branch . |
| 13 | Just as genes propagate themselves in the gene pool by leaping from body to body via sperms or eggs , so memes propagate themselves in the meme pool by leaping from brain to brain via a process which , in the broad sense , can be called imitation . |
| 14 | As it was , he stood in front of Lucie 's chair leaping from foot to foot and gesticulating wildly . |
| 15 | If you want to see dazzling feats of mountaineering , with animals leaping from ledge to ledge across gaping chasms , then look to the chamois . |
| 16 | Having lived in Australia for some years and witnessed forest fires , leaping from tree to tree and running along the thin covering of bush and grass , I could enter imaginatively into the prophet 's experience . |
| 17 | Property price inflation lifted turnover and operating profits , but costs also increased steeply , with interest charges leaping from £1.236m to £3.94m , reducing the pre-tax result . |
| 18 | The rewards are just beginning to come through with Mercury 's contribution to C&W trading profit leaping from £4million to £14million in the six months to September 30 . |
| 19 | She saw Ace , getting nearer , wide-eyed with concern , leaping from rock to rock . |
| 20 | Then he slapped his thigh , stood up , leaping from embarrassment to action . |
| 21 | Just as genes propagate themselves in the gene pool by leaping from body to body via sperms or eggs , so memes propagate themselves in the meme pool by leaping from brain to brain via a process which , in the broad sense , can be called imitation . |
| 22 | In 45-minute classes infants grapple with walking in time to music , marching , pony-trotting ; facial expressions and gestures are tested , too . |
| 23 | To be sure , this contrast is over-stated , and academic fields have periods of relative stagnation and sudden revolution , just as professional ones can evolve almost without anyone noticing in response to shifts in practice . |
| 24 | Twist your body to the left and keep alternating from side to side . |
| 25 | It causes ‘ thrush ’ , which is an infection of mucous membranes occurring from time to time in young children , characterized by white patches developing in the mouth . |
| 26 | The probability of the particle traveling from A to B is given by adding up the numbers associated with all the paths that take the particle from A to B. For most paths , the number associated with the path will nearly cancel out the numbers from paths that are close by . |
| 27 | Dismayed at the pain he had inflicted and at the pain he himself felt in consequence , Richard rushed forward , then stopped a few feet from Victoria twisting from side to side in frustration , wondering how he could stop her crying . |
| 28 | I could see you were prickling from head to foot with some kind of emotion towards me . |
| 29 | Later Scandinavian sources suggest a date of 1027 for the battle of Holy River , but this is rendered implausible by chapter 13 of the Letter sent by Cnut to England in that year , which mentions people who had tried to deprive him of his kingdom and his life , but whose power had been destroyed by God , and says that he is returning from Rome to Denmark to make peace with them . |
| 30 | Aid officials from the United Kingdom , returning from visits to Eritrea and Tigre on April 3 , reported that food supplies were reaching people in the region , mostly via the cross-border route from Sudan , and that there was no mass starvation , but warned that the situation could worsen when existing food aid pledges ran out after May . |