Example sentences of "[v-ing] to [pos pn] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few years ago , Michael was asked by the BBC to take part in a series which featured famous people returning to their first jobs . |
| 2 | Returning to my first meeting with Vincent , Arthur Cheyney naturally became my hero , especially when he took me on a trip from Ipswich to Parkeston Quay , which completely sold me on the job and made me resolve to move heaven and earth to get on a cutter crew as soon as possible . |
| 3 | Roy , 56 , who has played Alec in over 500 episodes , said earlier this year he was returning to his first love , the theatre . |
| 4 | Writing in the Radio Times in 1930 , the novelist Winifred Holtby , feminist and friend of Vera Brittain , recalled listening to her first football commentary : |
| 5 | But , of course , it does n't always work ; I was listening to my second recording of the Liszt Sonata about a year ago , and found things there that did not satisfy me . |
| 6 | In the words of the council leader , the new department was set up to ‘ act in a political manner ’ with a function of ‘ political mobilization ’ and , according to its first co-ordinator , ‘ part of the challenge for us in the local authority is to try to reintroduce some political perspective ’ ( quoted in Duncan and Goodwin , 1988 , p. 85 ) . |
| 7 | However , according to our first prevalence study , it was those areas characterised by the greatest levels of social deprivation that contained both the largest absolute numbers of users and the highest proportions of users . |
| 8 | Almost the only thing he could think of coherently as he peered at the Dutch tiles and crazy paving was that according to his last statement of account he had 67 12s. 9d. in the bank . |
| 9 | She was nervous and excited all at once just as if she was a young girl going to her first ball . ’ |
| 10 | Phil Gelderd praised the list in glowing terms before going to his first Leeds game for years — sadly for him he picked the recent one against Norwich . |
| 11 | ‘ I remember going to my first meeting , ’ he recalls . |
| 12 | In turning to my second strand of educational research I am encouraged by Reid , Hopkins and Holly ( 1988 ) : |
| 13 | Turning to our third question , whether the undoubted connection with psychosis offers an all-embracing theory of creativity might ultimately reduce to how we define the latter . |
| 14 | Turning to your last point , you 'll be pleased to hear that Word for Windows 2 features specific support for envelope addressing . |
| 15 | The whole sorry enterprise generated a cynicism that was to be heightened by the Watergate scandal , which emerged as the tragedy of Vietnam was moving to its last stages ( p. 104 ) . |
| 16 | Not even Jack Walker 's chequebook at Blackburn or Ron Atkinson 's golden touch at Aston Villa look like preventing Arsenal from romping to their third title in five seasons . |
| 17 | She had worshipped Hendry as she watched him on TV marching to his second Embassy world title last April and made nightly notes in her diary detailing her adulation . |
| 18 | He paused in his work to stare at what Dolly was doing to her first potato . |
| 19 | Now I 'm wondering how easy or whether there 's any mileage in actually having a report coming to our next committee , to actually build on that so that we 've actually got something to pull on figures to consider erm , and if , and it , it is going to detrimentally impact upon us to a greater or lesser extent , then , then obviously it 's helpful to me . |
| 20 | At all events Boon struck 11 resonant fours in reaching his half-century and Briers 15 boundaries before surrendering to his 186th ball , at 120 . |
| 21 | to rugby next and a banana skin called Bath Rugby Club sent Gloucester tumbling to their first league defeat of the season on Saturday … the score twenty nine … nine |
| 22 | In the Marstons Welsh Counties Bowling League , Deganwy were sent crashing to their first defeat of the season , 7–3 fall at Esclusham , to have their lead cut at the top to 10 points . |
| 23 | Eastwood 's try four minutes later sent Leeds crashing to their sixth defeat in nine matches . |
| 24 | White Face was presumably trusting to his second compartment , ‘ the part that never hatched ’ , to see him along his course . |
| 25 | And his bottom-of-the-table Forest side looked similarly browbeaten after slipping to their ninth defeat of the season . |
| 26 | So he , he , as I was talking to her last night on the phone the front door bell 's going and it 's our Fred from next door right looking after her and bringing forms for her to fill in to get dial-a-ride . |
| 27 | She knew he was referring to her last meeting with Jake and that explosive love scene in the drawing-room , only the sketchiest version of which he 'd been privy to . |