Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [adv] to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the second round of European matches gets into full swing tonight , Rangers can only sit back and watch after tumbling out to a last minute goal from Levski Sofia . |
| 2 | Ironically the champions had apparently weathered the storm after falling behind to a Mark Roberts diving header on the hour mark . |
| 3 | Ironically the champions had apparently weathered the storm after falling behind to a Mark Roberts diving header on the hour mark . |
| 4 | The gang bundled the family into a bedroom after bursting in to a house on Coventry 's ‘ millionaires ’ row ’ in Kenilworth Road . |
| 5 | Unmould for serving on to a heated plate large enough to accommodate the pudding and the sauce that will seep from it . |
| 6 | This is not a matter of sticking doggedly to a particular diet , but also of looking at your eating habits . |
| 7 | Looking further into the future the railway still cherishes the hope of building back to a British Railway connection at Ruabon on the Chester-Shrewsbury line . |
| 8 | Although this use of the survey seemed to offer to social scientists a more scientific way of approximating closely to a natural scientific model of research , incorporating measurement and quantification , hypothesis-testing , generalisability and theory relevance , it has not been without its problems and controversies . |
| 9 | The male can maintain a fairly equable distribution of grooming up to a harem size of five females . |
| 10 | The only problem was the , term , drug content , a problem Dr Thompson planned to solve personally , by an ingenious change in his ending ; instead of driving up to a plane , he would drive into it , and explode . |
| 11 | The BMW 525i is 16% more powerful than its predecessor and capable of pushing up to a speed of 143 mph . |
| 12 | However the day turns out , she will already have enjoyed the prospect and had the excitement of looking forward to a pleasurable outing . |
| 13 | She yawned , stretched herself , voluptuously enjoying the process of waking up to a lazy day . |
| 14 | whether they were in favour of going on to a second cycle of review and reporting and if so whether reports should deal only with a particular aspect of the school ; |
| 15 | Associate Members should get ground tickets for Wimbledon as a right instead of going in to a ballot . |
| 16 | He also disclosed that the company is considering moving up to a full listing . |
| 17 | The drive to surpass had originated and was maintained from home ; my sense of neglect and isolation was a partial consequence of belonging intermittently to a cohesive community . |
| 18 | Everyone — whether self-employed or working for an employer — has the choice of continuing as they are or of switching instead to a personal pension . |
| 19 | She would speak of the necessity of holding on to a framework of belief , a reasonable percentage of belie |
| 20 | I outlined what my message had been over the past two weeks and would be at the Party Conference — that we stood by the National Health Service and had no intention of moving over to a new system of finance . |
| 21 | DOS users know what they 're doing , have invested a lot of time and effort in learning how to do it , and do n't want the hassle of moving over to a new interface in order to do it differently . |
| 22 | This leaves their challengers with the uphill task of performing early to a half empty venue , or , in the case of SENSER , consigned to the early morning graveyard shift , by which time most of the audience has ( literally ) crashed out . |
| 23 | This is possible with both videocassette and videodisc players and there are various ways of linking either to a computer . |
| 24 | What Nicky discovered is that responding to God is an act of submission — of giving in to a force much more powerful than our own . |
| 25 | To the extent that such approaches may suggest the desirability of changing over to a counter-force nuclear policy , they escape from the moral frying-pan of counter-city targeting into the strategic fire of counter-force , which has the twin disadvantages that it might put a premium on first strike and that it would in any case result in frightful civilian losses . |
| 26 | And it is no bad idea to choose someone not too distant from oneself , especially if you hope to create a detective capable of standing up to a whole series of books . |
| 27 | And then , on the bottom of page sixteen and through on to seventeen is addressing the point that , also within the guideline , we have been asked , we 've been asked as a Committee , to look at the implications of finding up to a further two hundred and fifty thousand pounds ' worth of reductions . |
| 28 | A second reason for isostatic anomalies is that the lithosphere is not capable of adjusting instantaneously to a change in load . |
| 29 | It is also worth going along to a beauty salon a month or so in advance to have your make-up done . |
| 30 | It 's not much fun , you 're chained to the wall — it 's like going back to a medieval library . |