Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the hon. Member for Dagenham ( Mr. Gould ) said earlier — I apologise for referring to him when he is not in his place — there are 7 million single-person households in this country . |
| 2 | In this it resembled the British constitution itself , which , as apo-logists delight in explaining to foreigners , is nowhere embodied in a single document having the force of law . |
| 3 | They speak of longing to be beautiful or of restrictions on what they can wear or how they can look , and of media images of young women and how this affects them . |
| 4 | I paused before replying to her , because if you pause before replying to people it gives them the foolish idea that you 've actually listened to what they 've said , and I said of course darling . |
| 5 | They also act by binding to class II MHC molecules and stimulating large numbers of T cells through their V elements . |
| 6 | Others relax by listening to popular music on the local Armed Forces Radio station : Schoendoerffer makes an amusingly wicked use of Nancy Sinatra 's These Boots Are Made For Walking . |
| 7 | Beware of resorting to a visual aid because it seems to look impressive . |
| 8 | The aim of this research is to examine the strategies which prisoners and their families adopt in coming to terms with custody and its various social consequences . |
| 9 | The baddies trundle back and forth like an expectant father and resurrect on returning to a screen , and you 've got this pathetic energy bar thingie which encourages you to ignore them anyway ! |
| 10 | He is recorded as having said that no way would the Winslades get back their rightful estate save by going to law , ‘ … which by poverty they shall never be able to do ’ . |
| 11 | That you know through going to church ? |
| 12 | ‘ But they will have no experience of running pubs and I know from talking to the local bench that licensing magistrates are concerned at the standard of new licensees . ’ |
| 13 | When viruses succeed in binding to cell membrane receptors they still have to enter the cell and break up into separated proteins and genetic material before they can replicate . |
| 14 | Shifting funds to primary care under the existing system will create some new opportunities , but only if general practitioners succeed in relating to a new managed system . |
| 15 | Even if parents succeed in coming to terms with letting their children go , their best efforts are likely to be undermined by the ‘ dirty washing ’ gambit , or proprietorial claims to ‘ my room ’ which the child will not relinquish . |
| 16 | Unwind before going to bed — TV , radio , crossword , light reading , taking the dog for a walk , listening to music , etc. can all help . |
| 17 | These strategies for grappling with the explanation of most liberal democracies ' stability do little to reduce the problems that Marxist theorists confront in coming to terms with an enduring political alternative to state socialism , and one which most Western Marxists seem to find preferable to the Stalinist forms of state socialism . |
| 18 | Well talk about getting to the climax ! |
| 19 | Not so , as last week 's pro-blood sports advertisement in the Daily Telegraph ( talk about preaching to the converted ) amply proved . |
| 20 | ‘ I ca n't tell you how much better I feel after talking to someone like you . ’ |
| 21 | We still talk of yielding to animal passions . |
| 22 | I know what I feel like listening to , it 's just whether or not I can find it . |
| 23 | Yet sometimes that is what I feel like doing to the psychological and emotional crutches which are marketed as folk religion . |
| 24 | ‘ Sometimes , ’ said Bernard , ‘ I too feel like going to a hotel somewhere and looking out over a blue Mediterranean sea . |
| 25 | But it 's her house I mean they ai n't got no chi children or feel like saying to her whatever do you keep him there for . |
| 26 | I hardly feel like replying to your letter since No-one ( especially Velda ) likes to be called ‘ a slut ’ . |
| 27 | I believe in going to bed when you are really tired , not when you think you should . |
| 28 | The need to make it clear so that people understand without having to sort of keep coming back and asking again and again , yep , great , thanks . |
| 29 | Erm I I feel by going to cos sometimes they 're more involved than these days . |
| 30 | And we 've been saying to Chief Executives , if you ca n't get the profit or you ca n't get the sales , well at least concentrate on trying to , trying to get the cash , get the debtors in , that kind of thing . |