Example sentences of "slowly [v-ing] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the lack of grazing pressure much of the scarp slope has developed scrub and is slowly reverting to woodland . |
| 2 | You remember those things : they littered the creeks and bywaters of harbours , slowly returning to nature , back to the trees and minerals that gave them life . |
| 3 | Street lights were starting to come on in the distance , crimson slivers slowly brightening to orange . |
| 4 | Los Angeles plans to stop slowly choking to death : John Lichfield , in Los Angeles , finds out how California 's biggest city intends to reverse 20 years of lax pollution control with an assault on its ‘ drive-in ’ lifestyle |
| 5 | With legs slowly turning to jelly , I skied down hard , icy snow , followed by spring snow , then slush . |
| 6 | A TWO-YEAR-OLD boy in Cape Town , who was slowly suffocating to death , yesterday became the world 's first child to have an artificial windpipe implanted , during an operation by a British surgeon . |
| 7 | Wounded during the robbery , Roth ( Mr Orange ) actually spends most of the movie slowly bleeding to death , while Harvey Keitel ( the sentimental old-time thief Mr White ) , Steve Buscemi ( the motormouth obsessive Mr Pink ) and Michael Madsen ( the quietly psychopathic Mr Blonde ) bicker and brawl about who sold them out . |
| 8 | It is probable that like the mammals the roots of the great variety of living birds are to be found in the Cretaceous , but fossils , which could document this , are only now slowly coming to light . |
| 9 | Slowly revolving to right , revolving to left , |