Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [adv] [verb] [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I ever got talking to some man in a pub , it was more than his life was worth . |
| 2 | Cos we just enjoy talking to you so much ! |
| 3 | A familiar disjunction : while we hold on to personal musical favourites dating back over twenty-five years because we still enjoy listening to them , the music which brings on the fiercest nostalgia is often a terrible , loathsome noise with which we think we have nothing in common . |
| 4 | ( I have regarded myself as a feminist ever since I finally stopped wanting to be a pretend boy like George in the Famous Five . ) |
| 5 | But it seems I 've been a bit blasé about pregnancy 's being ‘ a perfectly natural physical state ’ — dear Dr Newne hit his surgery roof when I casually mentioned flying to St Lucia ! |
| 6 | No man , nor even a dog , a monkey or a dolphin , would be fooled quite so readily as the robin , though we too react according to habituated mental patterns . |
| 7 | When he accidentally gets talking to women who have children , it 's practically the first question he asks them — it 's the first test they face . |