Example sentences of "[v-ing] to [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leaping to left and right , |
| 2 | COE , Sebastian Newbold : ‘ Listening to recorded or preferably live jazz , theatre , reading . ’ |
| 3 | Artai was bowing to left and right now , the last time in his life he would ever be required to offer courtesy to others . |
| 4 | In April 1050 he and Bishop Hermann [ q.v. ] of Ramsbury visited Rome on an errand of Edward the Confessor [ q.v. ] ; according to later and possibly unreliable sources it was to secure the king 's release from a vow of pilgrimage made before his accession . |
| 5 | Before anyone could say a word he had turned on his heel and strode off looking to left and right as he went . |
| 6 | All that the King could do was to provide some sort of legal foundation of government for Englishmen going to unsettled and thinly populated areas , which he did by linking the legitimacy of their governments to the legitimacy of his government . |
| 7 | The old Soviet parliament was to be replaced by a two-chamber Supreme Soviet , and in due course a new Soviet Constitution would be presented for approval leading to presidential and perhaps more general multiparty elections the following year . |
| 8 | During the 1980s data networks of various kinds were spreading to more and more United States companies and industries ; several factors encouraged this , not least the deregulation of telecommunications and the emergence of new software packages tailored to particular industries ' networking needs . |
| 9 | Moreover you think , as does the justiciar himself , in terms of England , and like him you see no advantage in clinging to old and now artificial connections with territories on the mainland of France . |
| 10 | Tried moving to right but then too close to frame . |
| 11 | Whereas businesses are moving to more and more decentralized operations , business units still need to have instantaneous access to information . |
| 12 | We 'll be flying to Nice or somewhere like that . |
| 13 | The Temiar Senoi , for example , will stay up to 15 years in one settlement until travelling to more and more distant areas of cultivation becomes too troublesome , when they will move . |
| 14 | Sentences running to 70 or so words do n't help . |
| 15 | Each cardholder has a set limit , running to hundreds or even thousands of pounds that can be borrowed at any one time . |
| 16 | He makes a point of acquiring a substantial area of grounds , not just the lawns immediately around the house , but the walled gardens and shrubberies beyond , running to twenty or even fifty acres . |
| 17 | It 's an ambitious plan , but Bristol is responding to national as well as local needs . |
| 18 | Over the next few days we went paddling everywhere we could , starting with mud and graduating to small and then larger puddles . |