Example sentences of "[v-ing] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Basler have chosen to alter the cabin glazing to porthole style . |
| 2 | ‘ I think , before you start leaping to conclusions , you ought to ask your mother about it . |
| 3 | The American show includes film of people leaping to death from blazing buildings and other sickening true stories . |
| 4 | Claudia said , all her instincts leaping to attention . |
| 5 | Those who favour dialogue and opening to Cuba are silenced — editors of the Miami Herald who recently suggested as much received death threats . |
| 6 | Lean 's realist reputation was enlarged by his first Dickens adaptation , Great Expectations ( 1946 ) but , by the time he came to film the extraordinary expressionist opening to Oliver Twist ( 1948 ) , questions were being asked . |
| 7 | Opening to East European countries |
| 8 | It 's opening to public . |
| 9 | Which you will be opening to public on Channel Four . |
| 10 | He also admitted attempting to defraud the Provincial Insurance Company and falsely representing to police officers that the car had been stolen from Cotton Street , Castle Douglas . |
| 11 | Consequently she never stopped bellyaching to Daisy about how all the other Pony Club members had at least three ponies , and how humiliating it was having to hack to meetings when everyone else rolled up either in the latest horse boxes with grooms , or driving Porsches with telephones . |
| 12 | ’ Denying to Louise that he is vain ( December 9th , 1852 ) , he distinguishes between Pride and Vanity : ‘ Pride is a wild beast which lives in caves and roams the desert ; Vanity , on the other hand , is a parrot which hops from branch to branch and chatters away in full view . |
| 13 | We are only just beginning to recognize that if we take this attitude , we are denying to arts and letters , and to the criticism of them , any bearing at all on public life — including , for instance , public education . |
| 14 | shepherded bleating to trenches deep , |
| 15 | Crouched over the table at home endeavouring to scarf up all those little facts they required of you in those days ( what is Bauxite ? when should you employ j'eusse , tu eusses , il eusse ? what are the consequences of heating copper in a stream of chlorine gas ? ) and praying that the fuckers would leave the lights on until you 'd done just this bit ? |
| 16 | Her voice could be heard at three in the morning at the Gargoyle solemnly announcing to Minton , ‘ We Capricorns must stick together . ’ |
| 17 | There are a number of farm buildings at the site that date from the 17th and 18th centuries , the actual mill appearing to date from some point in the 19th century . |
| 18 | Master 's black chalk ‘ Portrait of a young man ’ , Pencz 's ‘ Allegory of Justice ’ , Muller 's erotic ‘ Embracing couple ’ — a superb complement to the brilliant Cornelis van Haarlem published in volume 1 — Ferdinand Bol 's breathtaking ‘ Messenger of God appearing to Joshua ’ and Rubens 's brilliant ‘ Anatomical studies ’ . |
| 19 | Torquay 's Paul Hall swung a frustrated punch at midfielder Steve Harrower , who reacted by appearing to head-butt the young winger . |
| 20 | The first speaks of the empty tomb or rising again after burial , of appearing to apostles , women disciples , and other witnesses . |
| 21 | Cyclops were not unique to Greek mythology ; appearing to Sinbad in The Arabian Nights was a huge monster : |
| 22 | And did those feet … predecessors of the new wave of Soviet Jews walking to Palestine in the 1930sPHOTOGRAPH : BBC HULTON PICTURE LIBRARY corrections page 19 |
| 23 | WALKING TO SUCCESS |
| 24 | Next day I tried to question our landlady about walking to Ipsarion as she served us breakfast on the marble terrace under the walnut tree . |
| 25 | That had seemed natural to Stephen , the way things should be : his father working and then emerging from his work , all three of them walking on the beach , or walking to Badstoneleigh to go to the Pavilion , or having tea on Stephen 's birthday in the Spinning Wheel , or going to see Somerset play . |
| 26 | Then there were the unwritten rules : girls travelling by train were not to travel in carriages with boys , and walking to school in the mornings , boys walked on one side of the road , girls on the other . |
| 27 | Instead of walking to school as we always used to do in the olden days , even if it was a three mile journey , nearly every child of today gets taken there in a car . |
| 28 | walking to school with no one around |
| 29 | My brother used to take a comb to school in his sports bag and when he was walking to school he goes |
| 30 | I was walking to school , right cos saw this in the shop |