Example sentences of "of [pron] [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | If all members of the human race had arrived roughly at the same time at the point when the need for a ‘ god ’ had started to influence human behaviour , it may well have been that the existence of a disastrous diversity of ‘ gods ’ , all of whom according to their worshippers conferred privileges , would never have become established . |
| 2 | Oi Dan I 've got ta , I 've got ta play you , I 've got ta play you later on of me apologizing to the Norwegians . |
| 3 | Yeah but instead of me swimming to the steps |
| 4 | There is no question of me going to Italy as a player . ’ |
| 5 | Yeah , this , this is interesting , it gets confusing perhaps because erm , I rang British Section , British Section today erm , enquiring about er , ah , there it is , were , were are we , erm enquiring about er groups having two prisoners you brought this up last time and as the result of me talking to somebody there erm , it became clear that British Section still showed us as having Sabri Lushe as a prisoner , erm and they were n't aware that we were no longer dealing with him , he 'd been released , and what they say is they usually get conformation from International Secretarium |
| 6 | A prerequisite for integrating different approaches to a problem must be the recognition that different approaches exist , and classification of them according to their basic elements in order to focus upon contradictory factors . |
| 7 | Keynes has shown that he and his brothers , six of them according to Florence of Worcester , appear in the witness lists of royal charters for some time before 1006 ; but it was in 1007 that Eadric received his ealdormanry , and Florence says that it was Eadric who had Ælfhelm murdered and the king who blinded his sons . |
| 8 | I mean Jason and Kylie getting married at the age of seventeen or something and then like two months later getting and one of them moving to Tasmania . |
| 9 | First , as we have already noticed , Althusser 's account must somehow explain the enormous variety of beliefs and judgments , many of them damaging to the status quo , that are found in capitalist societies ( and others , for that matter ) . |
| 10 | Thousands of boys and young men , pale , narrow-chested , hunched-up , miserable specimens , smoking endless cigarettes , numbers of them betting , all of them learning to be hysterical as they groan and cheer in panic unison with their neighbours — the worst sound of all being the hysterical scream of laughter that greets any little trip or fall of a player . |
| 11 | Of all the animals that sham dead it is the snakes that are the star performers , some of them going to amazing lengths to convince their assailants that they are truly deceased . |
| 12 | Half of them going to X-ray my back , and the X-ray does n't . |
| 13 | From this tradition have emerged a number of notable black Gospel choirs , some of them performing to a very high standard . |
| 14 | They form a group in the courtyard , some of them talking to each other , some walking up and down , one chatting to the policeman at the gate . |
| 15 | The Lorrimores , all four of them , arrived together to murmurs of sympathy , but the two young ones split off immediately from their parents and from each other , all of them gravitating to their various havens : the parents went to join Filmer and Daffodil of their own free will , Xanthe made a straight piteous line to Mrs Young , and Sheridan grabbed hold of Nell , who was by this time standing , saying that he needed her to sit with him , she was the only decent human being on the whole damn train . |
| 16 | Yet cave explorers , always indefatigable in their search for holes in the ground , have discovered several apertures in the beds of the streams coming down from Barbon High Fell , many of them admitting to underground passages and caves attained only by arduous effort . |
| 17 | There are two or three strange things in there which , while hardly melodies , might qualify as tunes , several of them coming to satisfactory conclusions . |
| 18 | So I ca n't see very many of them coming to local people . |
| 19 | Behind the long counter there were hams hanging , the smell of them adding to the already aromatic air of the place . |
| 20 | However , though the conditions were in my favour , I was unable to take advantage of them owing to the lateness of the evening . |
| 21 | There are two roads out of Saint-Étienne , both of them leading to the Spanish frontier and both delightful to drive along . |
| 22 | In 1932 there were violent demonstrations , several of them leading to serious riots . |
| 23 | Erm , I think at the back of some people 's minds there was this pressure , you know that 's why a few did return to work and I mean I can understand some of them returning to work but not necessarily for the reasons they 've stated . |
| 24 | My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus |
| 25 | On the contrary , it was precisely the excessive femininity , laid on with a trowel as it were , that created the effect of someone pretending to be a woman , someone in fact rather desperately hoping to be taken for one . |
| 26 | Certainly , in the group discussions ( Appendix II , section 3 ) , we found that people used this type of credit because of the ‘ service of someone coming to the house to collect ’ even when they were aware of the high cost involved . |
| 27 | To me , it seems that my felt desire for coffee is the cause of my going to the kitchen . |
| 28 | It is therefore natural to speak of my desire for coffee as the cause of my going to the kitchen ; a quite different kind of cause would be operating if someone twisted my arm behind my back and forced me to go . |
| 29 | It is not ( like the rain in the example of my going to London ) just another reason to be added to the others , a reason to stand alongside the others when one reckons which way is better supported by reason . |
| 30 | I wanted a diploma because I knew that there was no possibility of my going to a university . |