Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] to [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There seemed little else that he could do , but it was so far removed from his own branch of medicine , so alien to anything he could have foreseen happening to Celia . |
| 2 | She avoided returning to Matthew Blake 's table for as long as she could without giving him the power of knowing she was avoiding him . |
| 3 | Then , an annular boundary layer grows on the wall , and the flow starts approximating to Poiseuille flow when the thickness of this becomes close to the radius of the pipe ( Fig. 2.5 ) . |
| 4 | I 'll have to try praying to Mohammed . |
| 5 | The General 's father was the Rev. Henry Montgomery , the vicar of St. Mark 's Church , Kennington , when Bernard was born , but two years later he was appointed Bishop of Tasmania , to whence the family moved returning to England some twelve years later , when Bernard was fourteen years of age , and in January 1902 , the family moved into a Victorian house , 19 , Bolton Road , Chiswick , quite close to the River Thames and open sports grounds . |
| 6 | He had already considered returning to London in the closing stages of the war , but had thought better of it . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Once Celie finds out her sister was still alive and had been writing to her for all this time but she had not received any letters because Albert had intercepted the letters , she stopped writing to God . |
| 9 | By 1971 , BNB was using a mixture of DC 15 , 16 and 17 grafted on to a DC 14 base and modified according to BNB 's own scheme . |
| 10 | The visible Church of Christ is a congregation of faithful men , in the which the pure Word of God is preached , and the Sacraments be duly ministered according to Christ 's ordinance … |
| 11 | I stopped listening to Mudhoney after ‘ This Gift ’ , the follow-up to their still superior ‘ Superfuzz Bigmuff ’ which failed to deliver anything as immediately impressive . |
| 12 | I stopped listening to Jake Rosso 's records , and took his pictures off my bedroom wall . |
| 13 | I stopped listening to Mavis and sat staring at Toby . |
| 14 | One would predict according to Mandler and Johnson ( 1977 ) that it is the temporal order which would be altered most . |
| 15 | ‘ I had considered going to California over the winter but I realised it was n't necessary . |
| 16 | I have always enjoyed going to Highfield Holiday park and to Clacton because I know that when you get there , there always seem to be a lot of people who make the effort to welcome people to the Holiday park and they have always seemed friendly and if anything was wrong i.e. you lose something or somebody accidentally falls and hurts themselves or indeed somebody else the staff are always quick to help and so are a lot of other people who are on holiday there . |
| 17 | He said to the Thing : ‘ And do you know how much time we have before he starts going to Florida ? ’ |
| 18 | IAN BROWN : Caught miming to Alvin Stardust 1973 smash , ‘ My Coo-Ca-Choo' |
| 19 | IAN BROWN : Caught miming to Alvin Stardust 1973 smash , ‘ My Coo-Ca-Choo' |
| 20 | Only in i i in in exceptional circumstances , and I do mean absolutely exceptional circumstances , would we even consider going to Ingleston ! |
| 21 | Late one evening in 1958 Alfred Cobban telephoned me to see if I would consider going to Cumberland Lodge , in Windsor Great Park , to work there for three years as Director of Studies . |
| 22 | Er he mentioned going to Leicester . |
| 23 | We stopped going to GLF , and to mixed gay discos and on mixed demos . |
| 24 | And any I stopped going to Weightwatchers . |
| 25 | The police imposed a change of route which involved marching to Craigavon Bridge via Duke Street , instead of Distillery Brae and Spencer Road , and to the Diamond via John Street and Foyle Street instead of Carlisle Road . |
| 26 | I 've never been a person for holidays but when I was sixteen I left drama college , with my grant , and tried hitching to Cairo ; that 's my idea of travelling . |
| 27 | I 've never been a person for holidays but when I was sixteen I left drama college , with my grant , and tried hitching to Cairo ; that 's my idea of travelling . |
| 28 | Zeelenberg had considered trekking to California during the winter to train at Kenny Roberts ' ranch , where many other Europeans perfect the crucial art of sliding the rear wheel on mini bikes on purpose-built tracks . |
| 29 | But it seems I 've been a bit blasé about pregnancy 's being ‘ a perfectly natural physical state ’ — dear Dr Newne hit his surgery roof when I casually mentioned flying to St Lucia ! |
| 30 | Turning to , turning to entertainment and media investments er , it was a very tough year for the Tussaud group and starting with the er , Gulf War er , and erm , the only Tussaud business that , that does a lot of business in the first quarter is erm , Marylebone Road and you may remember that the Gulf War caused foreign tourists to stop coming to London and er , also erm , British tourists stopped coming to London and during that time attendances were actually twenty five percent down , so the recovery from there is , has been very good . |