Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] to [art] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ferguson marked his return by latching on to an Alan Main clearance to beat Murdoch to the jump on the edge of the box , and head in the fourth . |
| 2 | Signing on to the DSD scheme , for instance , puts one more barrier in the way of a foreign firm wanting to sell in Germany . |
| 3 | Although Peru in 1990 probably bore little resemblance to the place described circa 1948 in our tomes , we were immediately obsessed with an area sloping down to the Amazon Basin to the east of the Andes . |
| 4 | By 1737 he had begun to acquire over 200 acres of what was regarded as desolate heath-land sloping down to the River Mole near Cobham in Surrey , and he turned it into an ornamental park , Painshill Park . |
| 5 | I 'm not allowed to go jetting off to the Caribbean , that 's all . |
| 6 | NURSES from South Tees are jetting off to the U.S. this month to find out about baby care , American style . |
| 7 | That means a potential 200,000 customers will be jetting off to the States . |
| 8 | It meant driving up to the London Passport Office a few times and waiting around there for interminable periods , but I hoped that it was going to be worth it . |
| 9 | The row was sparked as the French head of state went on national TV to declare any attempt to delay signing up to the Maastricht Treaty by Mr Major would be ‘ unacceptable ’ . |
| 10 | Last year , before signing up to an IMF deal , Ethiopia 's government sent a team to visit eight African countries and decide for themselves what works . |
| 11 | In her desperation she had been on the point of walking out to the Lock but there was no need to do that now . |
| 12 | Then he 'd been walking back to The Randolph when he suddenly felt he just could n't face his excessively sympathetic countrymen , and he 'd called in a pub and drunk a couple of pints of lager . |
| 13 | Once , on a day of snow and melting slush , he was walking back to the Marylebone Road when the Asshe carriage passed by , with Johnny at the reins . |
| 14 | For a moment I thought of driving out to the Jackson house , and beating out of the lawyer whatever information he had . |
| 15 | PCTE was developed by the Commission of the European Communities in 1983 , has been implemented across Europe and is now filtering through to the US . |
| 16 | ‘ Innes Place had been vacant ground for a long number of years , and the planning people insisted that there never had been houses fronting on to the Donegall Road , ’ Mr Smyth explained . |
| 17 | The houses in the High Street went stravaiging down to the Gallowgate and the Saltmarket , to which last place no sane citizen would go as it was full of cutthroat robbers , avoided even by the police . |
| 18 | While I 'm paying for your time , we 'll discuss whatever I think necessary , ’ and if that was n't enough to send her temper soaring , ‘ So , for a start , you can begin by telling me why , when I know as fact that two men at least hang their hat up in your home , you 're so intent — the glasses , the schoolmarm hairstyle — on living up to the Miss Frostbite label they 've pinned on you here ? ’ |
| 19 | All had their sails up and all were looking out to the Solent , not back towards the red foils approaching them at 35 knots . |
| 20 | The American approach has traditionally been to offer a range of models , like Cessna and Piper 's basic two-seat trainers , the 152 and Tomahawk at the bottom end of the range for training , leading on to the Cessna 172 or PA 28 for the experienced pilot owner . |
| 21 | There must still be some people alive who recall going on to a Sunday School outing from Leicester to Foxton ; parties would travel to Market Harborough by train and either by boat or cart to Foxton . |
| 22 | Nobles attending the court were ordered to go first to the apartments of Dara Shukoh and there make their morning obeisance before going on to the Diwan-i-khas to greet Shah Jehan . |
| 23 | Well like what are the band doing after practice , are they doing anything , they 're probably all going on to the Cutty Sark at Greenwich or something . |
| 24 | Philip who lives in Darlington , and attended the town 's Longfield Comprehensive school before going on to the Queen Elizabeth Sixth Form College , has already represented his country at under 15 and under 16 levels . |
| 25 | On Monday evening booksellers can meet author Nigel Williams ( Faber ) , and afterwards any delegate not otherwise engaged is invited to join BA president John Hitchin for a conference first , a President 's Personal Spring Supper at Cockington Court , before going on to the David & Charles Disco . |
| 26 | I thought this must be the end for all three of us but in fact all the policeman wanted to do was to stop any traffic going on to the Via Emilia as a big convoy was on its way south towards Parma . |
| 27 | A woman pulls a boy child by his little hand toward the escalator leading down to the Piccadilly Line . |
| 28 | Hi , After lengthy negotiations in private , Gav & I are going along to the Sunderland game together on Wednesday . |
| 29 | On 24 November , the Ministry presented designs by Prado architect Francisco Rodriquez Partearroyo which detailed three new underground floors and an entrance ramp leading in to the Prado 's ground level . |
| 30 | ‘ Some of the other kids were going down to the Ash Grove later , ’ she complained . |