Example sentences of "[v-ing] to [pos pn] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then they 'd come bleating to my father and their husbands and complain that Addy was autocratic and impossible , and the men would say , " Why ca n't you leave her alone ? " |
| 2 | Amid all this turmoil , Nu followed Gandhi in announcing to his wife that henceforth he would live in celibacy ( like the Mahatma , he waited until after they had five children ) . |
| 3 | Rachel said huskily , walking to his bedside and trying not to be alarmed by his appearance as she hugged and kissed him . |
| 4 | 4:5–7 ) , but by its members being seen whenever possible in the community , contributing to its life and responding to its needs . |
| 5 | The purpose of such investigation will be to determine the precise nature of the incident , to examine the factors contributing to its occurrence and to identify any measures which might be taken to minimise the likelihood of a repetition of this or a similar incident . |
| 6 | comment on the tests and test items and discuss issues relating to their development and administration in the schools ; |
| 7 | Time after time , ministers who thought they knew their churches inside-out discover new factors relating to their growth or lack of it , of which they would have remained blissfully unaware if they had not taken the trouble to investigate . |
| 8 | In particular , without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing , all goods capable of use as , or in any way likely to be used in the preparing or packing of , food , toiletries , perfume , cosmetics , pharmaceutical products or any other goods for human consumption or for use upon the human body shall contain nothing rendering them unsuitable for their purpose and shall comply with all relevant requirements relating to their sale and composition and to the use of preservative or colouring matter therein . |
| 9 | These arrangements are embodied in the Scheme of Conditions of Service as adopted by the Council ( hereinafter referred to as ‘ The Scheme of Conditions of Service ’ ) relating to your group as well as in other documents which are equally available to you within the Administration Unit . |
| 10 | ‘ ( a ) no evidence shall be admissible in any proceedings before a judicial authority exercising its jurisdiction or functions in Great Britain to prove that any such person has committed … any offence which was the subject of a spent conviction ; and ’ ( b ) a person shall not , in any such proceedings , be asked , and , if asked , shall not be required to answer , any question relating to his past that can not be answered without acknowledging or referring to a spent conviction or spent convictions or any circumstances thereto ; … ’ |
| 11 | But it is not yet known whether the teenager is returning to her mother or remaining with her 18-year-old boyfriend 's family . |
| 12 | But because the case was heard in private it is not known whether the teenager is returning to her mother or remaining with her 18-year-old boyfriend 's family . |
| 13 | When he had vanished from sight she expelled a long sigh and allowed the mask to slip away from her face , slowing returning to her towel and lying down flat on it . |
| 14 | ‘ OK , ’ he said , returning to his chair and signalling to her to sit opposite . |
| 15 | ‘ Come down to the path , ’ said the enthusiast , abruptly returning to his passion as soon as the distractions withdrew , ‘ and I 'll show you something . |
| 16 | ROBERT SAM ANSON 's ‘ The Man Who Shot JFK ’ ( February ) was the first of many articles I read on the same subject — but I kept returning to his time and time again . |
| 17 | KEEPING TO YOUR PROGRAMME UNTIL ALL YOUR GOALS ARE ACHIEVED |
| 18 | It was non-competitive and I loved meeting people from all over the world , listening to their music and watching their dancing . |
| 19 | The effect of all this uncertainty and waiting was that through listening to her mother and Maria Candida , Sara began to convince herself that she already knew and loved her future husband and the country he would take her back to . |
| 20 | After listening to my heart and extracting a syringe-full of blood from an artery , they connected my right arm to the drip-feed . |
| 21 | Cos I was sort of like listening to my music and it was , I think it was about half eight , nine o'clock cos I 'd only got some homework done for ne , to do for next Tuesday , so I thought I 'll leave it |
| 22 | Because of a lecture I gave last weekend I 've to write a paper on how P R audits can be applied to the military which is great fun and an acknowledgement that people of a senior level were listening to my lecture but , um it 's put quite a bit of work on me . |
| 23 | Well , me and Andrew Love were talking backstage the other day , listening to our drummer and keyboard player having a jam out front , and I was humming this made-up saxophone solo , and he was going , ‘ Oh , God — if you were a sax player , watch out ! ’ |
| 24 | I remember listening to his music when I was about 12 years old , so that was exciting . |
| 25 | He could see by the dark light that came down from the night sky , a sky that glowed with vivid city lights , that on stands in nearby cages other eagles were listening to his story and staring at him silently . |
| 26 | Winston ‘ Scotty ’ Moore grew up in Humbolt , Tennessee , around 80 miles from Memphis , and picked up guitar by listening to his father and three older brothers . |
| 27 | She worked with several hawks and falcons , putting each through its paces according to its maturity and natural ability . |
| 28 | Each type is classified according to its behaviour and the electrostatic charge of the active ion , if formed , as follows : |
| 29 | This force is universal , that is , every particle feels the force of gravity , according to its mass or energy . |
| 30 | The wines from the Bordeaux region of south west France are classified by the property — the estate or château is given a ‘ class ’ or ‘ classed growth ’ according to its owner and the quality of the land . |