Example sentences of "[v-ing] to [noun sg] [coord] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prior to the passage of the Theft Act 1968 , which made radical changes in and greatly simplified the law relating to theft and some other offences , it was necessary to prove that the property alleged to have been stolen was taken ‘ without the consent of the owner ’ ( Larceny Act 1916 , section 1(1) ) . |
| 2 | Take out of a typical day the classes you must attend , the time spent travelling , the hours you sleep , the eating , shopping , meeting friends , relaxing , watching television , listening to music and all the other activities of a busy day , and there is not much time left for study . |
| 3 | Unfortunately you now appear to be experiencing a rather peculiar phase in which nothing seems to go according to plan and all you can do is bide your time and wait for others to come to their senses . |
| 4 | THE first six months of the year have gone very much according to plan and most of the companies within the Food & Agriculture Division are close to their budgets . |
| 5 | They 've been to bed and got up in the morning , and now they 're going off and doing things , like going to work and that . |
| 6 | put in a great deal of their time erm going to work and that could be working for er a European or an American right , er some sort of help in the house , or in the garden or whatever , so you had the men doing the same sort of tasks the housework as it were for Europeans and Americans and the women looking after the , the economic development of that little |
| 7 | And here we come we 're going to lunch and this is Amy . |
| 8 | Yes , we spent quite a lot of time alone together , started going to bed and all that , and yes we were sensible enough to know that even when you 're falling in love you should n't live entirely in one another 's pockets . |
| 9 | This is what we look at in terms of er target of erm the er wallets we 're going to print and that is determined , not quite sure what the measurement is for estate agent it 's something to er to do combination of the number of peop er number of mailings they 've done in the last er twelve months and also the number of houses they have on their their books . |
| 10 | There is another area in which our ways are beginning to part and that is weekly journalism — current affairs . |
| 11 | Er , I must n't be guilty of commercials but in the last council meeting of the night , again the subject came up of how we could welcome people coming to mass and this is nothing to do with a request council at all and er we ended up , and I think it 's fair to say what we decided er here , that people would individually they did n't know approach them . |
| 12 | First , all overlap periods must allow adequate time for exchange of information between the staff coming to duty and those leaving . |