Example sentences of "[v-ing] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | There are lots of ways to walk to Fort William if that 's what you fancy , except now one of them is littered with lots of wooden posts with painted thistles , and hundreds of people trudging about who never thought of walking to Fort William until someone gave them the West Highland Way guide book for their Christmas . |
| 32 | I remember the grey excitement of walking to rehearsals through the blacked-out streets , of playing ‘ Mars the Bringer of War ’ by candlelight , in overcoats and scarves . |
| 33 | The result is the Channel 4 music documentary Mister Roadrunner the follow-up to Holland 's Walking to New Orleans five years ago in which the jazz and blues fan travelled to New Orleans . |
| 34 | — Walking to New Orleans : June 5 , C4 , 11.40pm . |
| 35 | The scouts were walking to Chester cathedral for an afternoon service as part of the scouts Service of Praise . |
| 36 | I can remember as a boy walking to Rochester via the ferry and Wouldham on many occasions but this was only a stroll compared with some of the older inhabitants efforts . |
| 37 | Paul Sillitoe says they 'll be away for a month and walking to Everest base Camp … and he 's looking forward to it |
| 38 | George Male was walking to Upton Park tube station when he saw the bill : ‘ Herbert Chapman Dead . ’ |
| 39 | You are warned that cats do not take kindly to walking to heel like a dog , and prefer to walk alongside you . |
| 40 | This retriever is walking to heel . |
| 41 | Within the confines of the garden your dog will have learnt the basic commands such as walking to heel and sitting . |
| 42 | ‘ If we do n't get on that truck we 'll be walking to Doullens . ’ |
| 43 | As for economic value , the judges have recognised , for over a century , the validity of the contract to pay £100 if the promisee will walk to York ( a famous example given by Brett J. in Great Northern Rly. v. Witham ( 1873 ) L.R.9C.P 16 ) ; and no one has ever demonstrated what economic value there is in walking to York . |
| 44 | ‘ May I still have the pleasure of walking to World 's End with the both of you ? ’ |
| 45 | and coming to dinner with me every evening , being in the same room , walking to lessons with her , it fucks me off like hell , she 's really getting on my wick , you know ? |
| 46 | . You walking to Mel 's ? |
| 47 | Before walking to Miss Havisham 's , I went to the hotel for breakfast . |
| 48 | Tea with Madame Rochard sometimes , and walking to Miss Lucchesi 's and back , and those two hours that go by like water flowing through a sieve . |
| 49 | One day , Walton relates , as he was walking to Salisbury to worship in the Cathedral and play music with his friends , |
| 50 | Tony Atkinson , 16 , was fighting for his life after the collision which happened as he was walking to Queen Mary school in Long Lane , Fazakerley . |
| 51 | The fire was warm as I sat down to contemplate whether to stay overnight with my relatives just outside Fort William , or start walking to Achnacarry some ten miles or so away . |
| 52 | I was explaining to Jim how we could do that and it looked pretty straightforward so or , or not . |
| 53 | Unix Systems Laboratories president Roel Pieper and his boss-in-waiting Novell chief were in Japan last week explaining to USL 's Japanese shareholders the ins and outs of the deal that 's been cut . |
| 54 | In the former exhibition , George Mackie , DFC , RDI , RSW , one of this century 's leading graphic artists , confronts the challenge of explaining to layman and bibliophile alike the nature of his ‘ invisible ’ craft and the intellectual and emotional considerations which underline it , and this theme is further elaborated in the accompanying catalogue , Books , mostly scholarly and some Ephemera , designed by George Mackie , which was produced thanks to the generosity of The Stinehour Press , who printed it . |
| 55 | Apart from in scene nine , where Anderson displays occasional discomfort through his hesitations ( 4 instances , most notably when explaining to Sacha why he came to the Hollars ' apartment ( p. 81 ) , and when giving assurances of what he will do to help Pavel ( p. 83 ) ) , we find very few instances of hesitations or unfinished turns ( no more than one instance of each in scenes seven , eight , ten and sixteen ) . |
| 56 | The proposed expansion of auditors ' reports should help close the expectations gap by explaining to users what the auditors ' responsibilities are and how they are carried out . |
| 57 | Typically , field scientists spend two or three years studying why the range in eastern Montana is not like the range in western Montana , and explaining to Washington why it should be managed differently — only to be told by bureaucrats that all rangeland planning must be the same everywhere . |
| 58 | The task will fall to the manager to persuade advice workers to attend race-awareness training in addition to popular updating in welfare benefits ; managers may have the task of explaining to management committee members why they now need training after so many years without it ; it will be the manager 's job to be attuned to advice workers ' weaknesses and tactfully point them to the relevant additional training ; the manager must find a balance in workers ' meetings between training , casework and group support . |
| 59 | The management accountant was having considerable difficulties explaining to management that fluctuations in profits resulted from differences between volume of sales and the volume of production within an accounting period , together with the system of product valuation used . |
| 60 | Spiller is explaining to Pod how he proposes to move the grating over a drain . |