Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some climbers are very enthusiastic about the new proposal , recognising that the current system needs revising and bringing up to date . |
| 2 | Phil Richens ' project engineering team — — has been instrumental in devising and overseeing every phase of this technical development programme , from initial planning and purchasing through to installation logistics , commissioning and testing . |
| 3 | Having an overview also means being in the picture about your role and those of your subordinates and superiors in the company , about your company 's profile in the larger comparative corporate picture , and keeping up to date with all that 's new in your business or profession through professional organisations , the trade press and national newspapers . |
| 4 | As time passes , it becomes harder for workers to shift , but it is just a matter of absorption and keeping up to date , ’ he says . |
| 5 | If you work as an in-house solicitor , you will have responsibility for drafting and keeping up to date standard contract documents for use by your employer in the main business — from simple invoice terms and conditions of sale or purchase to those suitable for major projects and transactions and non-standard contracts for individual or complicated projects . |
| 6 | We will be offering advice and support , and listening carefully to feedback from centres on their experience of implementing the new awards . |
| 7 | How much she 'd given him , cared for him , loved him , and now he was sitting in Eva 's house all cosy and radiant and looking forward to bed . |
| 8 | It was not long before I was ensconced in the dining-room with a pastis and looking forward to dinner . |
| 9 | His parents say he was happy and looking ahead to University . |
| 10 | They stood in silence for a while , leaning over the balustrade and looking out to sea . |
| 11 | And turning finally to Section four background to the first half of this motion er relating to consultations . |
| 12 | Between leaving school and going off to war with the Navy , he had worked on the Sharpness tugs for British Waterways . |
| 13 | WHILE a growing number of British companies are switching from petrol to diesel-engined cars to improve fuel consumption and cut costs , one company , originally at the vanguard of the diesel movement , has dumbfounded the experts by reversing its decision and going back to petrol . |
| 14 | Thursday dawned as dully as the day before and Fabia got out of bed and went through the routine of getting showered and dressed and going down to breakfast with a total lack of enthusiasm or appetite . |
| 15 | The demands of running a home , looking after my father and me , and going out to work , were too great . |
| 16 | A couple of jets screamed over the island at one point , two Jaguars wing to wing about one hundred metres up and going fast , crossing the whole island in an eye-blink and racing out to sea . |
| 17 | ‘ The number of people becoming unemployed has eased over recent months and more people are leaving unemployment and getting back to work , ’ she said . |
| 18 | Maths tuition can be tailored to the needs of people budgeting for the family groceries , learning to measure and switching over to metrication or simply those wanting to be able to help their children with maths homework . |
| 19 | In this case , you have to go through the full manual routine as outlined above , stopping on play-pause and switching back to record-pause when you reach the desired edit-out point on the previous recording . |
| 20 | The final two components in' any system of formal management control involve measuring the resources consumed and reporting thereon to management so that they can investigate adverse variances and initiate corrective action . |
| 21 | It is also a clear-sighted revision of Clementine , with a sharp politician ( James Stewart ) poaching John Wayne 's credit for ridding the territory of sub-human outlaw Lee Marvin and riding on to success in the 20th Century while Wayne dies broke and drunk . |
| 22 | The next reported sighting was from RAF Ayr , then the ME 110 was tracked intermittently until overshooting Scotland altogether and flying out to sea . |
| 23 | Each month students will explore a different aspect of garden design , beginning by establishing the different functions which a garden is to fulfil and moving on to study access routes and boundaries , changes in level , colour theory , designing for seasonal variation , and the use of water and architectural features . |
| 24 | I decided to sit out the recession by selling the remaining 16 years on my lease and moving home to Crouch End in North London . |
| 25 | For a Friday and coming up to Christmas . |
| 26 | Beginning with this chapter , and running through to chapter 12 , the principal topics of discussion will be various types of semantic relation which hold between lexical units of the kind established in chapter 3 . |
| 27 | they let them go out and they do n't know where they are , but the majority of of children that do it year in and running up to Christmas time they do exactly the same at Christmas , |
| 28 | And er she says like when I think of me keeping her child overnight and all before it 's in hospital and running down to hospital three or four times when he was in the hospital , and taking him sweets and all , and she says she 's treating me like shit . |
| 29 | The next thing you knew , there 'd be , oh , I do n't know , a fifteen-year-old Pole sliding off the table and rubbing his eyes and sauntering back to work , accompanied by an orderly and his understanding smile . |
| 30 | And the difference between being tough and responding rapidly to instruction and discipline and bullying is something that er you have to denote er i in this discussion tonight . |