Example sentences of "to [pron] [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given that the member will be sent their membership card , it would seem a small step away to actually send them a letter addressed to them personally welcoming them to the union and advise them at the very least on the basic facilities and benefits , plus other important information , and signed by the Regional Secretary , if not by the General Secretary . |
| 2 | And when she had helped Carole to put Emma and Sophie to bed she had n't been able to prevent tears coming to her eyes while she had listened to them solemnly saying their prayers . |
| 3 | Not that it came to me just thinking : I realized it at school . |
| 4 | I 'm a bit worried at some of what is saying here erm , which seems to me like wanting to er create bureaucratic structure within a parish that , charts , positioning of everyone and they should know therefore , I just do n't think is , that 's my personal view , I do n't think it 's the right approach at all to a parish . |
| 5 | That those eyes which have witnessed the Divine Motherhood should henceforward be for ever lowered in contemplation in an enclosed cloister seems to me entirely fitting . |
| 6 | I became at once possessive about it … there was already talk about the war ending and Sadler 's Wells reopening and it seemed to me entirely fitting for the Sadler 's Wells Company to reopen the theatre at Rosebery Avenue after the war with a new opera by a leading young English composer . |
| 7 | This situation applies to everyone actually digging on a site , so as there may be anything between one and 100 people all constantly taking decisions in this way , there exists a large potential for error . |
| 8 | Take the case of the thirteenth Earl Ferrers , a man to whom all drinking folk have reason to be grateful . |
| 9 | Nor is it intended to overlook the existence in the councils of state and elsewhere of men to whom any loosening of the reins was wholly repugnant . |
| 10 | But it was good just to lie in the darkness , curled against him , listening to his even breathing , and know this was just the first night of the rest of their lives . |
| 11 | Standing on tiptoe , she arched her lower body to his scarcely needing the encouragement of his hand pressing against her spine . |
| 12 | Currently he has two museum shows running in Europe devoted to his famously demanding — in terms of sheer weight and mass — sculptures . |
| 13 | to his quickly fading parents , figures |
| 14 | Although there are at least ten references to his actually painting in oils in his diary , there are no comments on the medium in the guide . |
| 15 | He had sent three runners off in the horse-box and was taking Mackie to assist , leaving me to my slowly growing first chapter in the dining-room . |
| 16 | It was a happy day when it dawned on me that there was no actual impediment to my cordially disliking both lots . |
| 17 | Maybe it is due to my always having eaten a diet rich in red meat and saturated animal fats ? |
| 18 | There is no guarantee that by singing the words of a hymn we have participated any more fully than by giving silent attention to someone else doing so . |
| 19 | Or it could be sold to someone else planning an assault . |
| 20 | Fourth , providing the standard deviation of the test scale is known , it is relatively easy to estimate the extent to which a child 's score is extreme ( either high or low ) in relation to the scores obtained by the standardisation sample , and therefore the extent to which further testing and possible intervention is appropriate . |
| 21 | Now if I stood here all the time for two days and presented to you just standing here do your eyes move have to move if you 're watching me all the time your eyes are fixed are n't they in one position ? |
| 22 | Astron also carries a Russian X-ray detector , identical to one now flying on the manned Salyut 7 space station . |
| 23 | Before , we were just listening to everybody else telling us to keep on playing and carry on doing this and that , but that was really just because they were afraid we were going to be a flash in the pan . |
| 24 | Last year the student leaders were coming to him privately asking for his ideas . |
| 25 | She managed to struggle to her feet and cross the room to him barely limping at all . |
| 26 | She shut up and her mouth fell into a gape , the sweat appeared in globules on her upper lip , the colour deepened in her face and she seemed to have to force breath into her lungs as she listened to him now saying , ‘ You 'll not tell me any more what I 've got to do and what I have n't got to do . |
| 27 | She turned to him sharply looking across the table : ‘ A minute , Doctor . |
| 28 | The woman led him away , leaving Charlotte to wander into a long pine-panelled room with a huge stone fireplace at the far end and a picture window to her right commanding a view of the terraced front garden and the curving drive up which she had walked . |
| 29 | She feels this new freedom to travel and pursue her own areas of interest contributes to her seemingly unflagging energy . |
| 30 | At the first , a middle-aged woman with an enormous bosom was digging a fork into a plate of salad with the precision of an accountant jabbing at his calculator , before transferring the accumulated forkful up to her rapidly masticating jaws ; and Morse knew that if he had married her , it would all have been over within the week . |