Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [conj] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | She paused , suddenly wondering whether to stick to her prepared story , or to change it . |
| 2 | Ranulf was sitting yards away and the soldiers were crowded together muttering and cursing to each other whilst Selkirk had already moved across the cemetery to a nearby grave . |
| 3 | She looked forward rather selfishly to a quiet evening at home surrounded by familiar objects , perhaps reading or listening to a concert on the wireless . |
| 4 | With its formal rose garden , large lawns and a wooded area with a pigeon house and herbaceous borders , it is altogether an ideal place for just sitting and listening to the birdsong . |
| 5 | We sat for a while just watching and listening to the water and turned back to follow the path out of the steep-sided gill towards Cotterdale . |
| 6 | a strangely good baby , always laughing and talking to himself in his own fashion , kicking in his pram , talking to the trees . |
| 7 | The pupil-teacher ratio ( PTR ) and the contact ratio ( the time teachers spend directly teaching as opposed to preparing and marking work ) might be regarded as inputs and , in addition to the examples taken from the Audit Commission report , outputs might include punctuality and values and attitudes acquired by the time the pupils leave school — though the latter would not be easy to quantify . |
| 8 | The result is often a hesitation in buying new technologies until they are proven , and a pace of negotiation which is both fatiguing and maddening to Westerners caught up in it . |
| 9 | A number of public examinations , particularly those administered by the CSE boards , allowed both setting and marking to be carried out by a school or group of schools , with a moderation procedure built into the scheme . |
| 10 | As competitors and spectators sat in the sunshine on the Royal Canoe Club 's lawn at the finish , slowly unwinding and chatting to friends , some of whom had not been seen for quite some time , the atmosphere was a mixture of international competition and relaxed gentility . |
| 11 | All the pain of Fulham leaving Only you can heal , If you can sit down with our Chairman And work out a deal ; Surely leasing or selling to Fulham would be very sound , Instead of being owners of a derelict ground . |
| 12 | These events show that plants and animals have evolved not only a circadian rhythm to regular their daily lives , but also a way of reliably sensing and responding to the changing seasons . |
| 13 | They are , they 're guesses , they 're using the current mean of three hundred and fifty one , erm , and then tilting that according to the seasonality er that 's shown over the last five years . |
| 14 | ‘ And you saw nothing either going or returning to the house which seemed suspicious or even unusual ? ’ |
| 15 | Application forms may be obtained by either telephoning or writing to the Admissions Office using the tear-off slip at the end of the booklet . |
| 16 | Cheshire County Council is currently considering whether to contribute to a southbound spur to the Manchester-Crewe via Styal line — total cost estimated at £5 million — which would give direct access to the airport from the south of the country , as well as the Midlands , Chester and North Wales . |