Example sentences of "on [v-ing] to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This week I am lecturing on Preaching to a group of most eager students . |
| 2 | Officials of the Sauchiehall Street Traders ' Association — whose shopping precinct will be one of the targeted areas — said high street stores were likely to look favourably on contributing to the scheme . |
| 3 | The baddies trundle back and forth like an expectant father and resurrect on returning to a screen , and you 've got this pathetic energy bar thingie which encourages you to ignore them anyway ! |
| 4 | This applies not only while out on contract but also on returning to the home country . |
| 5 | Fate dealt its hand when both Carole , my wife , and I went shopping separately to nearby towns and on returning to the cottage we proudly presented each other with same piece of estate agent 's literature — FORMER RAILWAY STATION FOR SALE - LLANBRYNMAIR ! |
| 6 | On returning to the hotel , provided that the coaches do not break down ( remember ‘ 85 , Christine does ! ) , |
| 7 | But he swore at a spectator who had provoked him during a game against Essex at Ilford and again on Sunday when he was racially abused on returning to the pavilion after scoring a half century which helped Middlesex clinch the Sunday League crown . |
| 8 | On returning to the surface , he carelessly looked away from where he had placed the briar and a snake ate it , whole . |
| 9 | An amusing reminder of these sorties ( I missed one of the larger of these attacks while on leave ) springs to mind when , on returning to the squadron . |
| 10 | On returning to the apartment , Sophie found Mozart in a high fever , trying to explain to Süssmayr how to complete the Requiem . |
| 11 | On returning to the box and resuming his duties , he was more puzzled than frightened for he did not believe in ghosts . |
| 12 | Yet on returning to the stage for the first encore , after the first set which had lasted only 35 minutes , they all actually began to sound like a live band and you momentarily forgot about the keyboard player triggering off the backing vocals , and the percussionists aided by drum sequencers . |
| 13 | The minor irritation on returning to the car is that it is directly in front of you as you descend to the north , but there is nowhere to cross the river . |
| 14 | On returning to the car , to my surprise Balvinder solemnly handed the pot to me . |
| 15 | On returning to the study , she told Uncle Albert of her discovery . |
| 16 | ‘ And do you know what , Uncle ? ’ she said , on returning to the study . |
| 17 | On returning to the bell stand to catch the transport to the course in question , I could n't find my golf clubs . |
| 18 | On returning to the ward somewhat shaken myself I made the patient as comfortable as I could and asked to speak to the ward sister , who was fortunately very experienced and prepared to believe what I told her . |
| 19 | We checked on the five french windows that opened on to the playground , noted the survival of the wash-house and , on walking to the side of the school and round the back , found the original planks that constituted the vieille planche intact . |
| 20 | We we well we 'd love to be able to get get on with our job and er wi with far less interference than we receive at the moment but er when government insists on er on interfering to the extent it does an and there have been well I 've been reading recently so something like five hundred new powers the Education Secretary has given himself in the in over the last last few years . |
| 21 | A man who wished to resist such turning could insist on keeping to the subject ; and forceful men who had the character of genial good nature could get away with open rebuttal of this kind ; but not all people who interrupted with open rebuttals acquired or maintained that character . |
| 22 | Robert Lynd summed this up well when he reported his feelings on listening to a radio broadcast of the arrival of the last mail train at Dublin 's Broadstone Station before its closure in 1936 : |
| 23 | Her name was Bessie Braddock and she had publicly refused that year to stay in the headquarters hotel , insisting on going to a boarding house instead . |
| 24 | She 'll insist on going to the toilet , despite the fact that it 's too late . |
| 25 | I 'd worked on it as the slide projectionist One of the reasons we were all so keen on going to the party was that Faustus was a joint production with the local girls school . |
| 26 | In statistical analysis , on the other hand , the emphasis is on presenting to the machine information that is exceedingly diverse in nature and often very extensive and which can have a complicated , possibly hierarchical , structure . |
| 27 | On reporting to the tsar in 1849 , the Minister received the title of Count for providing Nicholas with more information about a group of dissidents than he had had since the exposure of the Decembrists . |
| 28 | When it became apparent to the teacher that Sherman was intent on proceeding to the gorilla area , it became necessary to say ‘ No . ’ |
| 29 | Her whole concentration had been on getting to the airport as quickly as possible . |
| 30 | I made the discovery , on moving to a country home with large , temperamental wood-burning stoves , that I was woefully ill-educated in the lighting and management of fires . |