Example sentences of "and [v-ing] to [pron] [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1	He saw himself as a wise and benign deity , presiding over his kingdom and seeing to it that evil did not always prevail ; a hollow symbolism of course and anyway he rather liked hemp agrimony and ground ivy .
2	He found it ‘ intolerable ’ to think of the toys falling into the hands of other children — ‘ The idea of a crowd of embryo right wee fellas ’ ' getting hold of them and Bolshevising and applying to their own base purposes that well-ordered world in which we spent so many happy hours ’ .
3	I was secretly hoping I would one day find a way of escaping and returning to my own country .
4	But the big man 's laughter was uneasy and he muttered , ‘ Aye well , take it easy , eh , ’ before giving Martin an odd look and returning to his own beat .
5	The United States adopts a liberal approach and some foreign judges have actually been sworn in as commissioners by American courts , e.g. , German and Italian judges have been allowed to execute the Letters themselves in the United States by examining witnesses in their own language and according to their own procedures .
6	International Relations theorists too tend to treat states which seem not to be power-maximizers either as unimportant or as maximizing power in their own eyes and according to their own ideas .
7	He was thus a particular target for the Tories , and according to his own account lost his seat at the 1702 election after a specific campaign against him inspired by the Tory leaders .
8	After the Ascension of Christ , Luke , whom Paul had taken with him as an expert in the way ( teaching ) , wrote under his own name and according to his own understanding .
9	Meanwhile there would still be room for outsiders to show initiative in asking interesting questions of companies , and coming to their own conclusions .
10	Recycling is an industrial process in itself , carrying its own costs and responding to its own markets .

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