Example sentences of "to [v-ing] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That set me watching the next time I was on a flight and to realising what a useful transaction it was . |
| 2 | He has already taken the trouble to obtain the opinions of a carefully selected group of North Britons ; what then can be his objection to ascertaining what the ordinary Scot in the street thinks ? |
| 3 | On Wednesday evening , the Admiral looked in on the club after dinner and Amiss heard him say goodnight to the five , remarking that he had a little work to do in the office , after which he would get back home and turn in : he looked forward to seeing them the following day . |
| 4 | He did have street cunning , most if it aimed to keeping himself a mystery . |
| 5 | Nevertheless I am quite clear in my mind that the matters ( largely financial ) upon which the mother seeks to rely as constituting an intolerable situation in Australia come nowhere near to establishing what the Hague Convention requires by that phrase . |
| 6 | They got the losers ' medals , in the end , though someone at the FA should get round to re-naming them the runners-up medals . |
| 7 | ‘ Then you 'd probably see your way clear to getting me a bottle of Scotch instead . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Early on in the State Department , we took to calling him the rent-a-colonel , in tribute to his ability to simultaneously milk the antagonistic intelligence services of Cuba and the US , ’ said Mr Francis McNeill , a former deputy assistant secretary of state for Inter-American Affairs . |
| 9 | Its leader , Alex Salmond , has lately taken to calling himself a Social Democrat , but this week his deputy , Jim Sillars , was again proclaiming full-blooded socialism . |
| 10 | The 29-year-old Motherwell man , who has made an art form of fouling up on the big occasion , acknowledged that he too came close to calling it a day after the Olympics . |
| 11 | Marshall had taken to calling it the rumour factory because a disproportionate amount of time seemed to be wasted on chatter . |
| 12 | Breaking with the habit of the Bush administration , the Clinton-Christopher team has taken to calling itself a ‘ full partner ’ , not merely a bystander , in the interminable peace talks . |
| 13 | Since she has done the unthinkable in LA and has never got round to buying herself a car , bus rides are the only way of getting around and the 6am commute to work brings her daily inspiration . |
| 14 | ‘ This Mr Postman very good man , ’ said Mr Singh , who had not been invited to the ceremony , but was clearly looking forward to attending none the less . |
| 15 | Dave said , ‘ The most frightening part of the jump was climbing out of the plane and having to crawl along the wing before jumping , but I look forward to doing it a second time just for fun ! ’ |
| 16 | Personal preference naturally varies but more benefit is to be gained by having a reasonable breakfast and lunch and a smaller evening meal ( even though most of us are used to doing it the other way around ) . |
| 17 | Many of these boil down to the simultaneous call to go back to doing it the way it was , to keep on doing it the way it is , and to move forward to doing it differently . |
| 18 | From watching and applauding a youngster 's efforts and triumphs to giving yourself a pat on the back for working well and doing things properly you 'll be chuffed and cheered by today 's developments . |
| 19 | A 44th minute goalmouth melee in which Colin Allister and Norman McGladdery were both denied was the nearest Bann came to giving themselves a glimmer of hope . |
| 20 | ’ One of them once said the only thing that came close to giving her the same thrill she got from shoplifting was having sex in a public place — you know it 's wrong and you might be caught , but it feels great , ’ adds Liz . |
| 21 | It was as if he were scouring all the weakness out of himself by an equivalent to giving himself the disease . |
| 22 | This sort of behaviour is very irritating and eventually I resorted to giving him a kick . |
| 23 | And I shall look forward to giving you a good report when you next visit us in a ’ — she paused — ‘ fortnight 's time . |
| 24 | But he is also an American and before he guns you down in cold blood , in the manner you so justly deserve I might add , I 'm sure he will see his way clear to giving you a dying request . ’ |
| 25 | The high quality applications which we received , in addition to giving us a wide choice of suitable applicants , gave us incidentally an encouraging snap-shot of the future of the book industry . |
| 26 | ‘ We are travellers from a far distant shore , and we wondered if you could see your way to giving us a drink . |
| 27 | The banning of tobacco advertising would be a great contribution to achieving what the United States has already achieved . |
| 28 | There would have been no possibility of winning her consent to handing him the tape , let alone the private detective 's report . |
| 29 | In addition to specifying what the core should contain , the framework laid down the percentage of the timetable to be allocated to some subjects , for example , English and mathematics were each to be allocated ten per cent . |
| 30 | The investor if he is going to make money this way , must have a broker who is committed to showing him a profit , as well as earning his commission off him . |