Example sentences of "and [v-ing] to [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chimbote was a dreadful place , litter everywhere and smelling to hell of oil . |
| 2 | We gave chase using extra boost and climbing to height of 16000 . |
| 3 | The two presenters run through the sequence of events and camera angles , practising a few boisterous ' announcements and listening to snatches of some of the show 's records . |
| 4 | The move followed the court martial and sentencing to death of 10 soldiers , allegedly involved in a series of murders and robberies in Kinshasa . |
| 5 | Danish Christianity went back only to his grandfather Harald Bluetooth , and according to Adam of Bremen Christians were for a time persecuted by Swegen Forkbeard . |
| 6 | For example , incomers are differentiated by age , by sex , according to occupational prestige ( pilots stand above engineers and air-traffic controllers ) , and according to place of residence ( estate dwellers are supposed to stand apart as more distant from those who live interspersed with Shetlanders ) . |
| 7 | When attempting to establish a long ley , the greatest care should therefore be taken to limit grazing and treading to times of good weather and soil conditions . |
| 8 | Luney crossed the garden to the hut where she slept , nodding and gesturing to inhabitants of her air-drawn world , which was no longer a ball . |
| 9 | Did it accord with legitimate expectations of fair and reasonable persons or was it a high-handed exercise of power of a kind more to be expected of an authoritarian government than one guided by and subscribing to principles of limited government ? |