Example sentences of "[to-vb] [coord] [v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Not that Andrew Orkney will dwell too much this week on leading them into the Canal Turn and over the final six flights and up the long finish and on to the post and becoming the first optician to win and riding into history .
2 The processes of learning to read and reading with competence an concerned essentially with developing intellectually skills and abilities .
3 ‘ How are you this morning ? ’ enquired Melissa , holding out a hand for Snappy to lick and noticing with relief that some of the strain had lifted from her friend 's face .
4 The economy comes to a virtual standstill as the population is forced to turn to print and writing for communication purposes .
5 I could feel the blast on my back as I was pitched forward , landing face down on the ground unable to move and gasping for breath .
6 The mare suffers a completely different series of problems in relation to going to stud and getting into foal .
7 The enthusiasm of both Margery Kempe and Richard Rolle for adopting a life-style which would itself openly express a response to God 's love as revealed in the Incarnation and their desire to teach others of this , betrays a deeply felt response to Franciscan teaching ; while Walter Hilton 's beautifully structured account of the progress to essential human fulfilment as inward discovery of the reality of Christ incarnate dying to sin but rising in love , one in heart and mind with God , places Walter Hilton squarely in the tradition of the theology of the Augustinian friars .
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