Example sentences of "[v-ing] to her [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Writing in the Radio Times in 1930 , the novelist Winifred Holtby , feminist and friend of Vera Brittain , recalled listening to her first football commentary :
2 She was nervous and excited all at once just as if she was a young girl going to her first ball . ’
3 He paused in his work to stare at what Dolly was doing to her first potato .
4 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 .
5 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 .
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