Example sentences of "and [adv] [v-ing] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thomas looked at them all , and then at Simon , who was now a small figure and in another sense no longer monstrous , because he was walking exactly as he had done when he was a very young child and most moving to Thomas , with his hands in his pockets and his back arched . |
| 2 | Warmed by the Gulf Stream and with an enviably mild climate , it feels like another country — but with all the comforts of home and duty-free shopping to boot ! |
| 3 | The race has to be held between noon and 1pm according to tradition , so weighing in takes place between 10.30am and 11.30am . |
| 4 | After that , he merely sat , smoking Woodbines and idly listening to Music While You Work on the radio . |
| 5 | More immediately , it was very good to see the Prime Ministers of Czechoslovakia and Hungary , and the acting Prime Minister of Poland , in Brussels on Monday , signing the association agreements between those countries and the Community and thus bringing to fruition an initiative begun by my right hon. Friend the Member for Finchley ( Mrs. Thatcher ) . |
| 6 | Heat the oil in a large pan over a moderate heat , add the onion and garlic and cook , covered , until well softened and just starting to brown . |
| 7 | But they will only do this , it turns out , if you 're 19 and just going to college . |
| 8 | This is very important because once you start to perceive yourself in negative terms you will probably start to act in a negative way , being quarrelsome and finally looking to food for comfort . |
| 9 | If they have overprotective parents , always worried and fearful , they may not develop the confidence they need , and become shy and timid , unable to take responsibility and always looking to others to take the lead . |
| 10 | But in an increasingly urbanized society it took new forms more apparent to political opinion and more threatening to life and industry ; and there were very many more large populous areas devoid of the most elementary arrangements for disposing of waste or supplying pure water . |
| 11 | This unit was formed in 1968 and moved from London to temporary quarters in Edinburgh in 1973 , at first at 13 Braefoot Terrace and later overflowing to accommodation at 9 South St David 's Street . |
| 12 | This latter , a unique survival , is preserved in manuscripts bound not later than 1529 ; the Magnificat and four Masses ( including Lapidaverunt Stephanum , an evident patronal piece ) survive in the choir-book of c .1525 prepared ( probably under Ludford 's direction ) for use at St Stephen 's , and now belonging to Caius College , Cambridge . |
| 13 | This is the company or corporation which , to help it survive , needs to devise mechanisms for acquiring and appropriately responding to signals from the environment . |
| 14 | The terrier , a Jack Russell , was always a hunting animal , working rough ground and even going to ground in those situations where it could safely get down into a fox earth or a drainpipe . |
| 15 | All the time , she had been half listening and even replying to Gazzer as he chatted on about Simon , the police , and Bella . |
| 16 | She did n't much feel like sitting beside the pool and simply shouting to Ana . |
| 17 | It has been exported since 1817 , when it first went to the USA and Canada , soon spreading into Mexico and South America and readily adapting to environments which ranged from very cold uplands to hot , semi-desert plains . |
| 18 | This situation is very difficult to handle and it is worth trying to avoid early escalation of treatment with sulphonylureas and then progressing to insulin . |
| 19 | Solutions of 5ASA , N-acetyl-5ASA , and N-acetyl-4ASA were made by dissolving the drugs in 0.2 M NaOH , diluting 1 in 10 in L-15 , and then adjusting to pH 7.4 with 1 M HCl . |
| 20 | And whether he were not in this dilemma ; that either his estate might enure for life , at his option ; and then according to Lord Coke such an estate would , in legal contemplation , be an estate for life ; which could not be created by parol : or if not for life , being for no assignable period , it must operate as a tenancy from year to year ; in which case it would be inconsistent with , and repugnant to the nature of such an estate , that it should not be determinable at the pleasure of either party giving the regular notice . |
| 21 | ( c ) master equipment for recording and reproducing , e.g. recording a programme off air on to tape and then transferring to cassettes for use at the satellites . |
| 22 | I know you said you were extra and then going to freezer shop or summat . |
| 23 | about being tired and the same thing happened , waiting on them coming in and then going to bed and I could n't get over |
| 24 | And then going to D which would be the major second . |
| 25 | So if you were on night duty , it was n't much use getting off early and going to bed for a couple of hours and then going to court — you might be engaged in court for a long time . |
| 26 | She said she 's working till six , and then going to aerobics |
| 27 | X X Y , now the B's should in fact be Y's It 's what comes of talking about it in A's and B's and then changing to X and Y's . |
| 28 | Perhaps , after all , anguish died with time , and life became a simple matter of bills and procreation and sometimes going to parties . |
| 29 | Lucy said ruefully , gratefully lowering herself on to a floral-cushioned , wicker-backed sofa in the conservatory and reluctantly submitting to Virginia 's fussing with a footstool , ‘ Is Mrs Chalk still there ? |
| 30 | He also admitted attempting to defraud the Provincial Insurance Company and falsely representing to police officers that the car had been stolen from Cotton Street , Castle Douglas . |