Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is indeed what I had intended suggesting to you , and it disposes of the immediate problem . ’ |
| 2 | Seek out opportunities to publicise nursing to men and " mature " women . |
| 3 | He stolidly avoided reacting to the word ‘ murdered ’ . |
| 4 | Police are investigating two more cases of carjacking bringing to four , the total number of such robberies in the past week . |
| 5 | After an eight hour [ night ] patrol , it was only to be expected that the policeman would prefer resting to hanging around the courts waiting to bring petty offenders to book . |
| 6 | She almost danced away , out of the door and into the sunlight , blithely leaving her horse to her brother whether he had intended seeing to it or not . |
| 7 | Erm essentially we we are sticking sticking to more information about environmental environmental issues expect er er within the ne next few months . |
| 8 | Some work is indicated , and concomitant criteria produced relating to classifying similarities and differences within and between 2-D and 3-D shapes . |
| 9 | During this briefing Mr Clayton said nothing about what medical evidence may exist relating to the nine children subject to Place of Safety warrants . |
| 10 | They advocate returning to the rates . |
| 11 | It is a pity that he attributes to Emrys Hughes remarks relating to these matters made by Sir Emrys Jones . |
| 12 | Ms Fancourt was superb and Ms Coyne would make walking to the bus stop seem a provocative and elegant statement . |
| 13 | There seemed little else that he could do , but it was so far removed from his own branch of medicine , so alien to anything he could have foreseen happening to Celia . |
| 14 | In the early years of the BAA 's existence a satisfactory clerical records service relating to employees was maintained and operated manually . |
| 15 | NORMAN Waller was cleared of murder this week after he admitted stabbing to death a man he believed was trying to break into his neighbour 's car . |
| 16 | She avoided returning to Matthew Blake 's table for as long as she could without giving him the power of knowing she was avoiding him . |
| 17 | In places , it defies understanding to this day . |
| 18 | But you must really enjoy singing to yourself , you must find that something |
| 19 | ‘ They live , or they 're supposed to live , in the paddock between the Rectory and the House , but the fencing needs seeing to , so they tend to wander round the Rectory when they want . |
| 20 | General manager David Melvin said : ‘ We provide catering to 350 outlets within the region , including schools , but we have to tender for that business . |
| 21 | Then , an annular boundary layer grows on the wall , and the flow starts approximating to Poiseuille flow when the thickness of this becomes close to the radius of the pipe ( Fig. 2.5 ) . |
| 22 | First , is the deemed subletting to be at a fixed rent or at a rent subject to review ? |
| 23 | They can last for anything between a weekend and three weeks and they involve journeying to a place ( sometimes a large house has been rented for the time ; sometimes a college ) where you will eat , talk , be taught , sleep , live writing in a totally concentrated way for the length of the course . |
| 24 | Pheromone binding to two rodent urinary proteins revealed by X-ray crystallography |
| 25 | Oh brakes wants seeing to , a side light , the shock rears want doing |
| 26 | I know it wants seeing to , but , how long is it going to take ? |
| 27 | Just keep social engagements that involve eating to a minimum . |
| 28 | Kenneth , Mary and the boys had come holidaying to the Hebrides , as they did most years . |
| 29 | Literally everything in the room starts vibrating to the beat of the bass drum . |
| 30 | I 'll have to try praying to Mohammed . |