Example sentences of "[v-ing] to [noun] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It is essential at this point to try to understand what is happening to Burton since so much of his public life flows from the tensions between Hollywood and the English stage , between money and art , as it was thought , between philandering and fidelity , between a public and a private life . |
| 4 | ‘ That congregational aspect — which is a pretty Presbyterian word and I quite like the connotation — of the emotional effect of things happening to people while they 're gathered together , that was the big thing in the early acid clubs , that feeling that you were in a place with 200 people all going the same way as you , all into being there , enjoying being in this mass of people … … |
| 5 | ‘ It is unacceptable in our democratic society that there should be a restraint on the publication of information relating to government when the only vice of that information is that it enables the public to discuss , review and criticise government action . |
| 6 | ‘ It is unacceptable in our democratic society that there should be a restraint on the publication of information relating to government when the only vice of that information is that it enables the public to discuss , review and criticise government action . |
| 7 | Pupils perform better on questions relating to skills than on those testing the understanding of concepts . |
| 8 | Erm but er I 'd just like to add that that , that was n't relating to Bill because he certainly did n't do that . |
| 9 | To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement on the law relating to provocation as it affects cases of murder . |
| 10 | I want to welcome obviously particularly er the order relating to Wales because it confers on Wales er one additional seat , giving us five altogether because of the rise in the Welsh population over the last ten years and that er although Wales was under represented under the previous erm er you know distribution of seats which gave us only four we will be slightly over represented when we have five because you simply ca n't have four and a half seats , it 's got to be one or the other but since the Welsh population is continuing to rise very rapidly then it is likely that that will be put right . |
| 11 | Out of approximately one hundred prospective overseas students I spoke with , the majority said they had little intention of returning to China unless conditions improved in all aspects of life in the near future , but they were vague about what they would do overseas once their initial period of advanced education was complete . |
| 12 | ‘ The captain fed us bits of information about decompression and what to do , and after 10 minutes we were told we were returning to Birmingham because of a shattered windscreen on the aircraft . |
| 13 | Returning to work before you are fit could infect others and delay your recovery . |
| 14 | Returning to work after a career break can pose problems for both women and men . |
| 15 | ‘ Lots of people will consider returning to work if they think they have good quality childcare . ’ |
| 16 | Knowing that I would be returning to work when ( my second baby ) was three months old , I acquired a battery-operated breast pump , as this time I was determined to express at lunch time to keep my supply going . |
| 17 | Well , I think we may actually be able to get some of it actually with support towards it , if we play it right , because other things are particularly important that we support organizations which are trying to solve the problem of women returning to work when they have children , and to cre so that they can create the mechanisms that the children can be looked after , after school and during the school holidays . |
| 18 | Critical illness , you 've got carry on paying the premiums , with no lump sum paid on living assur , er , on life assurance , the living expenses are likely to increase , because you may have er , somebody who 's disabled , paralysed or whatever , there 's no chance of the widow returning to work because she 's looking after person who 's er , ill , and obviously she ca n't remarry because she 's not widowed at this point . |
| 19 | ‘ You blame me for returning to England because of my job but it was n't just that and it was n't all my fault . ’ |
| 20 | Before returning to Cardiff as chief librarian in 1884 he developed journalistic skills , contributing a series ‘ About Books ’ to the Doncaster Chronicle , 1880–4 . |
| 21 | Vietnam has not ruled out the possibility of its army returning to Cambodia if requested by Phnom Penh . |
| 22 | Dorahy , 38 , played with Leigh and Hull Kingston Rovers and also led Halifax to the Regal Trophy final as player-coach before returning to Australia as number two at Newcastle Knights . |
| 23 | He then occupied a country living for a few years before returning to Winchester as chaplain to the Bishop , George Morley , who was a close friend of Izaak Walton . |
| 24 | — Managed Northallerton ( 8990 ) before returning to Guisborough as coach ( 90–91 ) — Became Football in the Community Officer at Darlington and then youth team coach when Brian Little quit the Quakers as manager last summer |
| 25 | I 've thought about it , ’ said Nikos , ‘ but I was keeping to surveillance until I was told otherwise . ’ |
| 26 | He said : that would be like praying to Edison when a lightbulb burns out . ’ |
| 27 | After that , he merely sat , smoking Woodbines and idly listening to Music While You Work on the radio . |
| 28 | The Jews were used to listening to parables as this method of teaching was well established in their culture . |
| 29 | He might have been listening to Moses when he came down from the mountain . |
| 30 | So erm I 'm you kn I do n't propose to do that again because I would n't er I would n't arrange a speaker if we had a full table show but it 's nice to know that it did work out because we were , I was forced into a corner a little bit erm and I think it was worth it because we as I say I 've waited a long time for Danny and he was well worth listening to , I can listen to Danny for hours because he he just speaks and , and tells you about his fish , I 'm , I 'm very very fond of listening to Danny cos I think he gives a good talk . |