Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] to [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They collided with the corridor wall , Cardiff still hanging on to Rohmer 's wrist . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'll go , ’ sobbed Perdita , and , leaping on to Hermia 's back , she clattered off down the drive . |
| 3 | I go back from , I 'm driving over to Brenda 's and I 'm thinking , , and I really am , I 'm driving along , you know like wha when you 're in the car by yourself and everything 's turning over in your head |
| 4 | On Friday Peskin , before jetting off to Florida 's Disney World , successfuly completed the rescheduling of £80 million of debt due to expire over the next six months . |
| 5 | Walking back to Rebecca 's cluttered desk , she set to work . |
| 6 | Over the coming months , the cuts in interest rates since last September will be filtering through to homeowners ' pockets , and this should help to lift consumer confidence , Nigel Whittaker , chairman of the CBI 's distributive trades panel , said yesterday . |
| 7 | He was always getting up to wander down the aisles , interfering with the card school or listening in to people 's personal stereos . |
| 8 | Fitting in to others ' expectations , e.g. spouse , friends or colleagues . |
| 9 | Or is it women who are calling the shots — weary of living up to men 's fantasies , preferring instead to watch actresses they can identify with , both physically and emotionally ? |
| 10 | The routines play on that , looking back to Margi 's life in Kirkby : poverty , religion , sex and the dole queue are all part of the equation . |
| 11 | The former Romanian regions of Bessarabia and northern Bukovina had been annexed from Romania in June 1940 in the course of the Soviet advance against the pro-German troops of the Romanian government , and after 1947 they had become the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic ; in practice , the dispute was much older , dating back to Russia 's liberation of the region from Turkish rule in the early 19th century . |
| 12 | The English Cup and league champions brought to an end a 33-match unbeaten home run by Neath , dating back to Pontypool 's visit on 8 March , 1988 , and recorded their first win over Neath since 1983 . |
| 13 | But , dating back to Biko 's days , the BCM has a strong tradition of ‘ non-collaboration , ’ which means shunning all contact with ‘ collaborators ’ serving in government-established institutions . |
| 14 | I advised going on to Lachesis LM2 and after 3 weeks she had a return of flushes . |
| 15 | They made a short visit , I suspect that they were going on to M.J. 's [ Margaret Jourdain 's ] brother and like Dulcia [ in A House and Its Head ] expected to come by a good deal of refreshment in the course of their peregrinations . |
| 16 | The money 's been pouring on to Gala 's Image , odds have come down from 25 to 1 . |
| 17 | In the corridor she glanced first one way then the other before hurrying along to Jessie 's bedroom . |
| 18 | She had spoken of meeting the following weekend and going down to Juliet 's . |
| 19 | Rachel even thought of going down to Phoebe 's bed room and using her phone to reassure the outside world , and protect themselves from its invasion . |
| 20 | Erm , they 're going down to Bicknoller erm , to stay with her mum . |
| 21 | What time you going down to Vera 's ? |
| 22 | He had a lump in his throat and he felt his skin prickling with shame at the thought of his friends and his friends ' mums going in to Pricewell 's and seeing Anna unloading ketchup bottles with ‘ Can I help you ? ’ pinned on her overall . |
| 23 | ‘ He said he was going over to O'Neill 's for an hour . ’ |
| 24 | Fabia was unable to see herself going up to Ven 's front door again , but was very aware that she was going to have to make some kind of an effort . |
| 25 | My ! that would be something to cope with , if it got round the unit that he was going up to Lemon 's place . |
| 26 | I 'm going up to Jack 's for a bite and a bubbly between shows . |
| 27 | Oh there 's no meeting , I 'm going up to Mandy 's . |
| 28 | My dad 's going up to Thomas 's . |
| 29 | Here , Miller describes their encounters in the months leading up to Ali 's 50th birthday |
| 30 | The seminar will not only set the tone for the CentCom meetings , but will also form part of a worldwide series of activities leading up to WACC 's Second World Communication Congress in 1995 , which will focus on the same theme . |