Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [adv prt] 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 | They stood in silence for a while , leaning over the balustrade and looking out to sea . |
| 7 | Between leaving school and going off to war with the Navy , he had worked on the Sharpness tugs for British Waterways . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The demands of running a home , looking after my father and me , and going out to work , were too great . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ The number of people becoming unemployed has eased over recent months and more people are leaving unemployment and getting back to work , ’ she said . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The next reported sighting was from RAF Ayr , then the ME 110 was tracked intermittently until overshooting Scotland altogether and flying out to sea . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | For a Friday and coming up to Christmas . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 , |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Beyond the edge of the present shore-line , and extending out to sea , are the true edges of the continents . |
| 24 | It begins with Septimus Honeydew waking up at three in the morning and trotting off to Mum and Dad 's room . |
| 25 | It was a piece of work that I very much enjoyed organising and following through to completion . |
| 26 | The transition matrices used were trigram matrices , based on the Marshall formula ( equation 3.3 ) and backing off to bigram information ( equation 1.3 ) when no trigram information was available . |
| 27 | The hang is by the curator , Tomas Llorens , former artistic director of the Reina Sofía and a specialist in twentieth-century art , and is conventionally chronological , beginning with the thirteenth century on the top floor and working down to Cubism , Surrealism , Pop Art and Neo-Expressionism on the ground floor , with the earlier works , up to German Expressionism , outnumbering modern art by three to one . |
| 28 | It involves any process appropriate to the media item from storing and restoring through to verification . |