Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [v-ing] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two Japanese car makers are developing electric-powered versions of their luxury models , designed for leasing to government officials . |
| 2 | She obviously feels it can not be resolved without going to court . ’ |
| 3 | MIP-1 β was immobilized by binding to proteoglycan : a conjugate of heparin with bovine serum albumin and cellular proteoglycan CD44 were both effective . |
| 4 | If this is the case , rather than attempt to invent a new conceptual framework , there is much to be said for turning to marriage as the one , already existing legal concept which has the obvious potential for expansion so as to provide the institutional framework for such a union . |
| 5 | Periodically Mary Wilson would poke her head round the door to see what progress was being made towards going to bed . |
| 6 | Unfortunately , there are other , newer sources never suspected of contributing to eutrophication that may be beyond the political if not the scientific , reach of conservationists . |
| 7 | He said Labour , Conservative and Lib Dems have refused to share a debate with Dr Clarke but he warned the BNP would not be prevented from going to election meetings in the town . |
| 8 | A TV soap opera star has confessed to stabbing to death the actress who plays his screen lover , police said yesterday . |
| 9 | This was done by standing to attention outside the station building with the station-master 's staff of office held out in front of the body . |
| 10 | TV newsreader Fiona Armstrong met new colleague Michael Wilson yesterday — and talked about going to bed . |
| 11 | He had been accused of clinging to Office , but he appealed to all those present to say whether such a charge was justifiable . |
| 12 | There was another face then , which did n't have to be invented : a moustached face that had recently and endlessly appeared on the television news , the face of a man who was accused of battering to death the nanny of his children , of attempting to do the same to his wife . |
| 13 | Kevin Sarbutts , of Elmridge , Skelmersdale , Lancashire , is accused of lying to Court of Appeal judges when he claimed he was coerced by police into giving vital evidence against a man accused of killing a stallholder in 1987 . |
| 14 | The highest level of information used in processing to date has been some form of lexical look-up . |
| 15 | Scrambling along the ground at 4 metres per second , a quail functions at a miserable 7 per cent fuel efficiency , Heglund found , while a man running at that speed achieves a 73 per cent ratio of fuel used in running to energy generated from food and oxygen . |
| 16 | Could this huge array be supplied without straining to breaking-point the thin lifeline ? |
| 17 | This was in recognition both of the 40th anniversary of his debut with the company and of the strenuous part he has played in bringing to fruition this ambitious project . |
| 18 | A survey conducted at the beginning of this year suggested that 96% of securities fraud cases are settled before coming to trial . |
| 19 | The problems which are likely to be encountered in attempting to mesh such divergent data are both technical and philosophical . |
| 20 | Three European countries were chosen and one week was spent in each country with most of the time being devoted to talking to family and part-time farmers . |
| 21 | When subjects are interrupted on going to sleep and asked to report any mental activity whatsoever they usually have something to say about what was going on in their minds . |
| 22 | It has been calculated that in 1922 an average of 38 minutes would be spent on going to work and coming back , with a working day of between 14 and 15 hours in the warmer months . |
| 23 | Was n't it hard enough on that poor child to know no parents , to be totally disowned by her relations up in Westlands , to be brought up an orphan in the convent in second-hand clothes , and sent to a secretarial course when she had her heart set on going to university without being mown down by a car on her first week . |
| 24 | " The Archbishop the next day travelling to Rochester , told his story to some of his familiars and had scarce concluded it when he was siezed with a sudden shivering and sickness , that he could scarce get to the village of Halling , a place of the Bishop of Rochester , where he had no sooner arrived by going to bed that night he died of a fit of collick " . |
| 25 | Joyce 's drawling nasal delivery ( the result of a broken nose in his schooldays ) attracted widespread interest in Britain , where no restrictions were placed on listening to enemy broadcasts , and he was quickly dubbed ‘ Lord Haw-Haw ’ , a kind of malign Bertie Wooster ( see Sir P. G. Wodehouse , q.v. ) , whose opinions were a subject only for entertainment . |
| 26 | Sometimes a clean break just wo n't work , where , for instance , there is n't any capital sum available for you to pay your wife and she has n't any job prospects ; then you may be saddled with having to fork out ‘ periodic payments ’ — the English term for alimony . |
| 27 | In such circumstances it is natural that Ministers should want to implement without undue delay policies for changes in the legal framework of the criminal law and for dealing with offenders which they may have espoused before coming to power . |
| 28 | Despite herself , and probably because she was still feeling the effects of the whisky she 'd taken before going to bed , Rory began to giggle . |
| 29 | A generous interpretation aids both plaintiffs ( who may need to have service effected before proceeding to judgment ) and defendants ( who can benefit from knowledge of pending proceedings ) ; and the state of destination does not commit itself to recognise any judgment the plaintiff may ultimately obtain , for service facilitates proceedings and does not authenticate them . |
| 30 | That amount of daily fresh air and exercise does wonders for health and fitness , so the time taken in travelling to work is actually being put to good use . |