Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] to [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway , I had a purposeful shop yesterday walking along to REALFOODS where one can buy lentils , rice , chickpeas and an Aladdin 's Cave of wonderful other things from herbs to dates , apricots to honey and tea , nuts , spices and organic veg and yoghourt etc . |
| 2 | If you have another part-time job , or domestic commitments , then bank nursing can be a very flexible way of keeping up to date professionally . |
| 3 | I 'm driving up to Pollensa tomorrow to pick her up and then we 're flying off to Madrid to meet her parents … |
| 4 | It 's funny to be driving up to town again . |
| 5 | Now let's have a nationwide campaign spelling out to youngsters how Ecstasy causes internal bleeding and brain damage . |
| 6 | Well , I know we 're rather looking forward to May when it , when it finishes till September |
| 7 | They 're probably really looking forward to winter now they know that . |
| 8 | The men are now looking forward to Saturday when the first Challenger tanks arrive ; it 's these that 'll play a key role in any ground battles should war become unavoidable . |
| 9 | We were really looking forward to Christmas together as a family but now everything is ruined . |
| 10 | Our exclusive interview begins on page 40 and I 'm sure you once you 've read it , you 'll be looking forward to Olympics as much as I am . |
| 11 | He was , at last , looking forward to Kano instead of looking back . |
| 12 | By the end of the evening I certainly wished the Kings Head was my local hotel restaurant , and I 'm looking forward to dining again at the Kings Head next time I have cause to visit Richmond . |
| 13 | And for supporters of more ambitious clubs , there is the long , slow death of Championship dreams , where hope is extinguished little by little , week by week , until one cold wet January afternoon , you 're 1–0 down at home to Southampton , and you write the rest of the year off and start looking forward to August again . |
| 14 | On one occasion the two men went on a private cruise from Blackfriars , stopping for an hour or two at Greenwich before going on to Southend where , in its fun arcade , the real purpose of the visit was achieved : Minton , careering wildly in a dodgem , was at last able to bump a critic . |
| 15 | PC Software houses are turning on to Windows more quickly than the users — there are n't many who do n't have a Windows product in their portfolios these days — and Sage has joined the band of the enlightened few who package both DOS and Windows versions together with its second foray into the GUI market — Sterling + 2 . |
| 16 | talking of rejects I was I was conned into going down to Stoke yesterday to look at the Portmeirion seconds shop . |
| 17 | used to be er , you know as you 're going down to infirmary down from you turn right on the road do n't you ? |
| 18 | Francis and I — ’ Werewolf looked at his fingernails ; anything to avoid my smug look — ‘ are going down to Kent tomorrow to do the Exhilarator . |
| 19 | He was going down to Soho later and he 'd look in . |
| 20 | Actually , are we going in to Marks again tomorrow ? |
| 21 | Are you going away to Glasgow tomorrow ? |
| 22 | erm , I have n't , I was gon na go and , I tried phoning Lorne one time I was going through to Glasgow just to see if I could , can I have a , can I have a pint with him or something , erm , just to chew it over cos he suggested you know he 'd made various helpful suggestions , in the meantime I did n't manage to meet him , but in the meantime I did manage to speak to my father-in-law who has a camcorder and er he will be more than happy to erm , he 's also got editing equipment , he would be more than happy you know , to do the home made video that we 've talked about , I need to talk to him about this because the obvious place to do will be the Lyceum on one of your shows |
| 23 | ‘ I am going over to Stone later on to change our Mother 's accumulator . |
| 24 | ‘ Going off to London today , are you , miss , and on your own too , wo n't you let me come with you ? ’ |
| 25 | Shaw was one of the star pupils of Vera Volkova , who taught both the company and school from 1943 to 1950 , before going off to Copenhagen where for 25 years she revolutionised , and Russianised , the style of the Royal Danes . |
| 26 | Looking at the messages which had accumulated in her absence she saw the folly of rushing off to Oxford so close to the start of term and felt faintly annoyed with herself . |
| 27 | Somebody 's going up to bed shortly . |
| 28 | Erm , so , erm , so I 'll see you soon , and you 're going up to bed now I hear are n't you ? |
| 29 | Well we 're only going up to Eastgate now Jane . |
| 30 | Well we 're going up to unit again . |