Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [v-ing] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Corbett bathed in the guest-house 's one and only tub before dressing and going down to the buttery for ale and a bowl of bread and fish boiled in milk . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , plenty of new flats are being built and coming on to the market : developers have rushed to get their projects completed in the hope of selling before demand dried up . |
| 3 | The term 's work was not to be seen as leading up to the audio tape . |
| 4 | But such a massive U-turn — Mr Major has always rejected a public vote — would be seen as giving in to the rebels . |
| 5 | I can hear them , the voices , I can feel the terror of flying up at fifty miles an hour and crashing my skull against that hard rock — CRASH ! — and my brains all spilling out in pieces and spraying round like sparks after a firework has exploded and floating down to the floor of the cave below … |
| 6 | He nodded at her now , and again said , ‘ By ! ’ before turning and running on to the stage . |
| 7 | The Electricity Privatisation Bill states that working up to the year 2000 supply companies must buy between 15 and 20 per cent of their energy from non-fossil fuel resources . |
| 8 | Carrie had been listening intently , enthralled and hanging on to the union man 's every word , but she suddenly caught sight of Fred standing at the counter . |
| 9 | Even as he did so six glistening , shiny black figures came over the railing , rolling and flopping on to the deck , like excited seals . |
| 10 | This latter use raises the question however of describing what is implied as leading up to the realization of the infinitive event , that is , of justifying why the speaker should want to represent the infinitive incident to a support conceived as occupying a before-position with respect to the infinitive 's event . |