Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The examination will be conducted by means of a cassette recording for dubbing on to the audio equipment at the Local Centre to achieve universal standards of dictation . |
| 2 | The examination will be conducted by means of a cassette recording for dubbing on to the audio equipment at the Local Centre to achieve universal standards of dictation . |
| 3 | The examination will be conducted by means of a cassette recording for dubbing on to the audio equipment at the Local Centre to achieve universal standards of dictation . |
| 4 | But this has not stopped some librarians latching on to the high cost of conservation as a reason for dispersing valuable books . |
| 5 | While working on the two biker films and his one sentence in The St Valentine 's Day Massacre , undemanding as they were , Nicholson was also writing another film script for Corman who was once again ahead of the field in latching on to the latest craze sweeping through the world : the children of the post-war baby boom were coming out to play and nothing could stop them now . |
| 6 | The decapitated head spun like a ball in the air , lips still moving ; his trunk stood for a few seconds in its own fountain of hot red gore before crashing on to the blood-stained ice . |
| 7 | As we were stepping on to the adjoining barge , the man on the bench called out to us . |
| 8 | She paced up and down ; she went backwards and forwards to the windows , stepping on to the little balcony where they sat together in the afternoon sun , peering down the street . |
| 9 | A determined show of political resistance from Mr Yeltsin and his supporters in other republics might help convince many old-fashioned Russian nationalists that hanging on to the Baltic republics is not worth a fight . |
| 10 | Standing stork-like and hanging on to the various bathroom fittings , she cleaned her teeth and made a reasonable toilet . |
| 11 | THE danger of trying to limp to safety on goalless draws was graphically illustrated by Coventry 's last-gasp defeat which could have them hanging on to the last day of the season before knowing their fate . |
| 12 | Coventry slumped to a last-gasp 1–0 defeat at Notts County which could have them hanging on to the last day of the season before knowing their fate . |
| 13 | I will definitely be hanging on to the sweat-stained handkerchief that Tom Jones tossed to my mother back in the Sixties . |
| 14 | There may be more security in hanging on to the old and acquiring something new as well . |
| 15 | At the beginning , although I felt that I wanted to get better , I was hanging on to the secure feeling that being ill brought . |
| 16 | Delegates placed an overriding emphasis on hanging on to the foreign investment the country has ; on winning back firms wooed away to the Third World ; and on finding new customers . |
| 17 | It might be that your ambitions are seriously flawed and you are preaching only to the converted . |
| 18 | Having anticipated that Nana would be unable to supply gin and Safex , even in an emergency , Mada Joyce had sent her oldest boy loping down to the Chinese store in the lowest village for these essentials . |
| 19 | But this will have to involve levelling up to the more advantaged rather than levelling down to the lesser , although future benefits can be reduced so long as diminution is applied equally to both sexes . |
| 20 | The television sits in the corner and leaks unsavoury glimpses of what 's really happening on to the faded carpets , and they hate it . |
| 21 | This discourages mounting adhesive from oozing on to the lower surface of the preparation , where it would affect attachment on the lapping machine 's vacuum chucks . |
| 22 | They were walking on to the long ridge they had been able to see from the cottage window . |
| 23 | Everyone was climbing on to the top bunks . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'll be right here beside you , ’ she added , climbing on to the next horse . |
| 25 | At the bottom of the garden , Gaily bent to lift the gate back on to its newly-placed hinges , and the cat forestalled him , leaping on to the top bar , tail waving in his face . |
| 26 | The impact of tourism stops pretty soon outside the medieval walls of the town , and the dwellings are like those of any impoverished fishing village in Cornwall , Sicily or Provence : low , simple buildings containing no more than the most primitive necessities , but opening on to the turquoise bay , with the Venetian walls on the western side and red cliffs to the east . |
| 27 | In their villages of origin the women had been regarded as contributing less to the economic position of the family than the men , but they had at least been recognised as crucial to the economic life of the community . |
| 28 | He bounced off towards Doone , who was writing in his notebook , and they were walking together to the big boatshed as I drove away . |
| 29 | He had visions of booking in to the same hotel several weeks running and a knowing clerk saying , ‘ Ah , I see sir has a new Mrs Smith this weekend … ’ as his latest girl flashed her ring on the desk . |
| 30 | And by William Lovett , remember : one of that articulate elite which attended the debates at the Rotunda ; one who , knowing full well how partial , minimal and divisive the Whigs ' proposals were , was compelled by the polarisation of opinion they induced to a course of action contributing much to the great flood of support for them ; one who was a founder of the Chartist Movement formed in the wake of the Reform Act . |