Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [v-ing] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.

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1 I hope you will do your duty ’ , and then collapsed in tears to be led weeping back to the palace and to her new role as Regent .
2 Another criterion that works well is to continue delegating up to the point where subordinates either actually object , or begin to fail to deliver successful results .
3 In the opening sequence he is seen hanging on to the top of a jeep as it careers down the rock of Gibraltar .
4 It 's called going down to the pub .
5 Between 10 and 16 live whales were seen milling around the mouth of the Nene at 8.30 that morning ; low water was at midday , and at about 5 that afternoon the pod was seen swimming off to the north on the rising tide .
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