Example sentences of "and [v-ing] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | a method of binding a paper cover to a book by drawing the cover on and gluing to the back of the book . |
| 2 | Wilkes had many levels of supporters , from the Middlesex freeholders who voted for him , through City interests " independent " of those linked through finance and contracting to the government , to the " middling sort " of householder . |
| 3 | A vital aspect of this learning is the stimulation from other people in the environment especially the mother or mother substitute who by speaking and singing to the child , and touching and cuddling , provides the basic experiences for interpersonal communication which are so crucial to further development . |
| 4 | He was able to read ( in a time when many nobles were happily illiterate ) and noted for his skill at reading aloud and singing to the harp . |
| 5 | How many people do you see every day — cycling , walking and even driving — wearing headphones and singing to the music ? |
| 6 | Perhaps symbolic is the typical picket line of today ; people in high spirits shouting slogans and singing to the beat of a salsa band as they march defiantly under the eyes of the police contrast with the solemn processions of strikers we had seen in the 1940s , walking through the streets in silence and in proper order , as if to create any disturbance was a mark of poor breeding . |
| 7 | His financial position was secure for the first time , and for the last twenty years of his long life he was able to devote himself to his work of creating a Serbian literary language and bringing to the notice of his countrymen and the world the riches of the Serbian oral tradition . |
| 8 | Peel and blanch by putting into cold salted water and bringing to the boil . |
| 9 | But that is a very different matter from the exegetically unjustified expedient adopted by some modern students of mission , of divorcing the Spirit from Jesus , evading the scandal of his particularity , and attributing to the Spirit 's agency whatever seems to them to be admirable in the beliefs and practice of other faiths . |
| 10 | The bottle shattered in the back of the car , the petrol saturating and sticking to the upholstery . |
| 11 | The solution in Cunningham 's own school ( Madeley Court , Telford ) was a sophisticated library resource centre , on two levels , with a multi-media collection of materials , reprographic and audiovisual production facilities , and trunking to the library and other areas of the school through which audio-programmes could be distributed on command . |
| 12 | Without the pinpoint contact of the tips of the claws , the animals may find themselves slipping and crashing to the ground . |
| 13 | First , in households consisting of elderly married couples , one of the spouses may still be working and contributing to the household income . |
| 14 | As the people of Stockport were taking care of the repairs to the School and contributing to the Master 's salary , they requested permission to appoint a new man without the formality of an interview before the Company in London , which would necessitate an expensive and inconvenient journey . |
| 15 | It has two functions : ( a ) it acts as a point of orientation by connecting back to previous stretches of discourse and thereby maintaining a coherent point of view and , ( b ) it acts as a point of departure by connecting forward and contributing to the development of later stretches . |
| 16 | By the time they reach the age and salary level of a first year graduate chartered accountant trainee , they are already working in ‘ semi-senior positions ’ and contributing to the firm while still training . |
| 17 | The clear objective of every SPRED group is that these special people are visible within their parish as active members , participating and contributing to the life of that faith community . |
| 18 | And something like two million people have got to stop doing jobs they should never have been doing in the first place , like er polluting the rivers and the soil and the air , and spying on each other and contributing to the overmanning that there is in East Germany . |
| 19 | In many cases , a shrine is erected over the anthill and women can be seen lighting candles and praying to the Deity within . |
| 20 | For active hunting , a heavy shell must be something of a handicap and some carnivorous molluscs have taken to a faster if riskier life by doing without it altogether and reverting to the life-style of their flatworm-like ancestors . |
| 21 | People and places , who 's in the studio and who 's releasing what with whom ( the latter now revised and reverting to the end of this section ) . |
| 22 | Cancelling commands and returning to the window |
| 23 | Tightening the cord of my pyjamas , blinkered by my loosened hair , I listened outside the door of North One , where the sound had led me , a musical instrument playing a familiar tune , I could n't recall the name ; playing it so far , stumbling on a phrase and returning to the beginning . |
| 24 | That he was not abstracting water but merely utilizing it and returning to the river the same amount in improved condition , because contact with the turbine had aerated it , and it was better for the fish . |
| 25 | The main argument presented here is that the General Strike was partly , but significantly , a consequence of the determination of successive governments to reduce wages , thus increasing unemployment in the short term , in the hope of strengthening the pound and returning to the gold standard — a view which has already been developed in Chapter 1 . |
| 26 | I have heard of the boats of a whaler entering an estuary and returning to the ship , nearly filled with Black Swans destroyed in this manner . ’ |
| 27 | Because of the Suez crisis , short-term regulars to whom we 'd previously said our goodbyes were getting re-mobilised and returning to the Canal one . |
| 28 | In these past two years and more , since Matthew had been employed with David , distancing himself from the old man and returning to the family fold , Beth had never stopped hoping that one day he might turn to her with affection . |
| 29 | In the arousal condition the same beginning and ending to the sequence was used , but in the middle the boy was hit by a car and shown lying on the car bonnet bleeding heavily before being transported to hospital . |
| 30 | Throttle open and keeping to the centre of the stream where there were no obstructions , he powered the BMW in second gear straight back the way they had come . |