Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] to the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , that 's it some odd nights we was on our way home from work , it 's going up to the even when we 're on earlies and and weekends we can go there ca n't we ? |
| 2 | The field for the 1986 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe was the strongest the race had offered for years , adding up to the most valuable collection of bloodstock ever assembled fur a single race in Europe . |
| 3 | Coburn wrote his first four part storyline in two sections , starting with the quest for fire plot , which he named ‘ The Tribe of Gum ’ before going back to the very first episode , which had to be a more collaborative effort with the Script-Editor and the Producers . |
| 4 | Well going back to the very first meeting that we had |
| 5 | Now going back to the maybe |
| 6 | But this will have to involve levelling up to the more advantaged rather than levelling down to the lesser , although future benefits can be reduced so long as diminution is applied equally to both sexes . |
| 7 | Before moving on to the more advanced aspects of wave riding let us consider what should happen in the first attempts . |
| 8 | We might feel tempted to say that Wittgenstein 's account may be true of sensations ; but that there is no such thing as a sensation of blue , and so there is no reason why a private linguist could not start by naming the way things look to him before moving on to the more difficult talk of the way things actually are . |
| 9 | If we were to construct a ‘ ladder ’ of non-fatal offences , starting with the most serious and moving down to the least serious , the offence of attempted murder should be placed at the top . |
| 10 | But despite flying back to the more forgiving climate of Cairns , his fever showed no signs of leaving him . |
| 11 | For in a few days , this same man would be reporting back to the most feared woman in Britain . |
| 12 | Cricket and Empire started life as film research commissioned by David Puttnam for a film on Bodyline that was never made — losing out to the unintentionally funny Australian TV mini-series many readers will remember from the early 1980s : ‘ David wanted me to find the ‘ smoking gun ’ . |
| 13 | At the same time , however , he earned massive public support for standing up to the most widely feared and despised Soviet institution . |
| 14 | There was something about cutter work — glamour , adventure , battling the elements , or just plain escapism — call it what you will , but once you had experienced it you had great difficulty in settling down to the more prosaic existence ashore . |
| 15 | She left him to pull herself up the bannisters to bed , thinking back to the inordinately exciting first summer when Comfort and Anthony had rented their house outside Oxford and she had fallen in love . |