Example sentences of "[v-ing] to [noun prp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lean 's realist reputation was enlarged by his first Dickens adaptation , Great Expectations ( 1946 ) but , by the time he came to film the extraordinary expressionist opening to Oliver Twist ( 1948 ) , questions were being asked . |
| 2 | There are lots of ways to walk to Fort William if that 's what you fancy , except now one of them is littered with lots of wooden posts with painted thistles , and hundreds of people trudging about who never thought of walking to Fort William until someone gave them the West Highland Way guide book for their Christmas . |
| 3 | The result is the Channel 4 music documentary Mister Roadrunner the follow-up to Holland 's Walking to New Orleans five years ago in which the jazz and blues fan travelled to New Orleans . |
| 4 | — Walking to New Orleans : June 5 , C4 , 11.40pm . |
| 5 | The scouts were walking to Chester cathedral for an afternoon service as part of the scouts Service of Praise . |
| 6 | Paul Sillitoe says they 'll be away for a month and walking to Everest base Camp … and he 's looking forward to it |
| 7 | George Male was walking to Upton Park tube station when he saw the bill : ‘ Herbert Chapman Dead . ’ |
| 8 | Before walking to Miss Havisham 's , I went to the hotel for breakfast . |
| 9 | Tea with Madame Rochard sometimes , and walking to Miss Lucchesi 's and back , and those two hours that go by like water flowing through a sieve . |
| 10 | Tony Atkinson , 16 , was fighting for his life after the collision which happened as he was walking to Queen Mary school in Long Lane , Fazakerley . |
| 11 | The instructions which Mr. Tucker gave to the Burnham sub-branch made it clear that the bank was retaining for itself the responsibility of explaining to Mrs. O'Brien the effect and nature of the documents she was to sign . |
| 12 | What was happening to Aunt Carrie and to John 's family ? |
| 13 | What 's happening to UK manufacturing ? |
| 14 | If everybody here just rang up the Foreign Office , rang up their MP , or wrote to the Prime Minister — it 's everybody 's right to do that — and said ‘ What 's happening to John McCarthy ? |
| 15 | If you take pain killers regularly you like thousands of others have probably been worried after hearing what 's happening to Michael Jackson . |
| 16 | WHAT IS HAPPENING TO Derek Jameson ? |
| 17 | " I do n't want to think of anything happening to Great-Aunt Alicia to begin with — and I ca n't bear the thought of selling Moor-lake . " |
| 18 | As well as contributing to Oslobodjenje Camo is editor-in-chief of Nedjelja , a weekly magazine published by the same company , but which has n't come out for the last three months . |
| 19 | But just as Geertz 's textually absent wife must have been present in reality , contributing to Geertz encounter with the Balinese , so women are also present in Balinese society though they may be absent from cockfighting . |
| 20 | PLACE your bets with Bugsy and you could be jetting to Las Vegas for a week in the gambling capital of the world . |
| 21 | APPEAL ( No. 10 of 1992 ) with leave of the Court of Appeal of Hong Kong , and with special leave , by the applicant , George Tan Soon Gin , from the judgment of the Court of Appeal of Hong Kong ( Yang C.J. , Silke V.-P. and Bewley J. ) given on 29 November 1991 , whereby they held that they had no jurisdiction to hear the applicant 's appeal from the judgment of Barnett J. delivered on 13 May 1991 in the High Court [ 1991 ] 2 H.K.L.R. 400 refusing the applicant 's application for judicial review of the decision of the first respondent , Judge Cameron , in the district court dated 4 December 1990 , refusing to stay the criminal proceedings by the second respondent , the Attorney-General of Hong Kong , against the applicant in the district court relating to West L.B. ( Asia ) Ltd. and Barclays ( Asia ) Ltd . |
| 22 | What was more , it was in the highest degree unlikely that any protest of his would have the slightest effect in any matter relating to Hilary Frome . |
| 23 | Opposite is the Barbeito Museum and Wine Lodge where examples of the large collection of works relating to Christopher Columbus can be seen . |
| 24 | Dunrossness is the part of Shetland which has been expected to bear the most immediate social and economic changes relating to North Sea oil developments . |
| 25 | Perhaps the strongest statements to this effect can be found in the report relating to Jasmine Beckford 's death : ‘ We are strongly of the view that social work can in fact be defined only in terms of the functions required of it by their employing agency operating within a statutory framework ’ ( London Borough of Brent , 1985 , p. 12 ) . |
| 26 | According to Vientiane home service on Sept. 28 , the Lao delegation discussed with United States officials " the narcotics problem , problems relating to US soldiers missing in action [ MIAs ] during the [ Vietnam ] war and the normalization of relations between the two countries " . |
| 27 | US presidential envoy Gen. John Vessey announced at the end of a visit to Vietnam on Oct. 17-19 [ see p. 38768 for February visit ] that the Vietnamese government had agreed to start a nationwide search of its military archives for documents and photographs relating to US servicemen listed as missing in action ( MIA ) during the Vietnam War . |
| 28 | This contains all the necessary forms and information relating to PAYE tax and NI contributions . |
| 29 | Changes of attitude relating to East–West relations in general were becoming evident in London , Washington and Moscow in the early months of the new year . |
| 30 | The Russian historian from Southmoor in Oxfordshire had lost a libel action over allegations relating to Lord Aldington 's role in the forced repatriation of thousands of Cossacks after the Second World War . |