Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] to [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those wonderfully powerful steam engines belching out smoke as they literally trembled on their way , the fair men hanging on to all sorts of vantage points as they progressed towards their goal . |
| 2 | Grahame begins the prologue of The Golden Age with the wistful phrase , ‘ Looking back to those days of old , ere the gate shut behind me … |
| 3 | in the second half so we can expect to see Collimore racing on to all sorts of long balls now . |
| 4 | and it goes through their , for the rest of their twenties , the rest of their thirties and most of their forties and then suddenly bang maybe something ghastly seems to be happening which they are absolutely unaware of , you know , they do n't know why they are crying or , or er unable to cope with whatever they ca n't cope with and that 's it , that 's them off and they start worrying about er osteoporosis and you know an enormous number of , of now medically defined problems of the menopause , and they may start going on to all sorts of things like hormone replacement therapy or even primrose oil or whatever the hell and they 're sitting there at an age when they are fairly loaded up with experience and maturity and all the rest of it and they do n't know what they are doing . |
| 5 | He could see the long walkway below him , the small iron gates at each end with steps leading down to both sides of the house . |
| 6 | Going over to some friends in Stockwood . |
| 7 | Look at all the erm cars going up to those houses up there look ! |
| 8 | It did n't used to but when I , I , I , I feel like going up to these girls and saying for god 's sake take that thing out of your mouth . |
| 9 | Brenda Acton , a seemingly competent and well-organized person , had a habit of talking about various events in her life as if other people had prior knowledge of the circumstances leading up to these events . |
| 10 | I sat in an armchair with a copy of Punch and pretended to read it , but my eyes kept going back to those lips and that tiny corner of pink tongue and I was in a turmoil . |
| 11 | Because erm even going back to those days it was the bright ones that were pushed forward and the the sort of dog take the hinder most sort of thing you know . |
| 12 | So just going back to these 'ates , sulphate has got sulphur and oxygen in it , a carbonate has got what ? |
| 13 | But as you look at it nowadays you can see if they were going back to these days would we still have the same interest . |
| 14 | If I can talk immediately to scope of that amendment before moving on to some points about the budget . |
| 15 | But I will be getting on to these regulations now . |
| 16 | ‘ You 'd best be getting down to those hens of the old lady 's , ’ he said to Philip . |
| 17 | It 's been a good four years for me to lay low , because they 've changed the stuff so many times and they now seem to be getting down to some conclusions about MIDI and stuff . |
| 18 | The books feature various babies getting up to all sorts of tricks in different situations . |
| 19 | The problem of facing up to these obligations was not , however , an easy one to resolve . |
| 20 | By the way , just getting back to these interventions . |
| 21 | Was Puddephat exceptionally tidy , or had he known he would not be coming back to these rooms after his trip to Paris ? |
| 22 | We had a glimpse of that with ‘ Nothing Compares 2 U ’ ( she cried , we cried too … ) and she does n't staunch the flow ( ‘ Can you really say you 're not in pain , like me ? ’ — ‘ Speech ’ ’ ) Do n't be fooled by the slight swagger of ‘ Why Do n't You Do Right ? ’ , the fragile , breathy innocence of her ‘ Bewitched , Bothered And Bewildered ’ , we 're just warming up to those where's-my-baby-blues of ‘ Black Coffee ’ . |
| 23 | Thinking back to those days , I realize how different I should be today had I grown up in the suburban house in London , suggested to my mother . |
| 24 | The cloud will continue to spread north this afternoon with that rain following on to most parts before dark . |