Example sentences of "[noun] was [v-ing] [prep] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the foot of the stairs , David was listening with interest to what her father was saying , a smile on his lips . |
| 2 | Already the basket was swinging from side to side in the wind . |
| 3 | But the tracer was weaving from side to side . |
| 4 | While the beam was going from right to left , the target moved forward . |
| 5 | At the end of the lesson , Katharine was beaming from ear to ear . |
| 6 | Her body was stirring in response to the warmth of his , and Luke was becoming aroused in his turn . |
| 7 | A speechreader was chatting about roses to a keen gardener . |
| 8 | My wife was flying from Tel-Aviv to London and who should be in front of us at the airport … |
| 9 | Dinda and I had a cottage in Stratford last , we made sure that father was going to Plymouth to Debbie 's for the week , he said he adores it down there |
| 10 | The empty two-unit pacer passenger train was returning from Goole to its depot at Doncaster , with only the driver and guard on board . |
| 11 | Meanwhile Roe 's Macclesfield Company 's activities continued at Coniston and output figures in John Moore 's estate book are provided below , Moore was acting as steward to Sir Michael le Fleming and this was a position of great trust . |
| 12 | Professionally , Crawford 's career was going from strength to strength , and his association with film director Richard Lester continued with A Funny Thing Happened On the Way To the Forum . |
| 13 | Ace was running from boulder to boulder along the summit of the ridge , stopping wherever she found good cover , just long enough to hurl one of her primitive looking grenades , or fire her blaster , or launch some kind of tiny projectile that Defries could n't see clearly . |
| 14 | Sladen was looking from George to Husband and back again , twitching his head from side to side like a tennis umpire . |
| 15 | Mr Crangle was grinning from ear to ear . |
| 16 | Mr Crangle was rushing from place to place checking the details of his plan . |
| 17 | They would ask me how the training was going from time to time and this interest spurred me on . |
| 18 | Trevor Radway , Chairman of the Forest of Dean Railway Company Limited , said there had been many improvements in recent times , and the railway was going from strength to strength . |
| 19 | Laura was trembling from head to toe . |
| 20 | In consequence the numerical significance of the unions within the Labour Party structure was declining in contrast to that of the expanding constituency Labour Parties . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's a good job , an' the money 's not bad , ’ William was saying in answer to Daniel 's enquiry . |
| 22 | Suddenly Lisa was grinning from ear to ear . |
| 23 | After his arrival back from Siwa , Stirling was driving from Alexandria to Cairo when he was involved in a serious road accident . |
| 24 | The van was travelling in parallel to them , but in the opposite direction . |
| 25 | By the time he reached the table where Fishbane was listening in silence to his enraged colleague , with splendid timing the Colonel had got on to ‘ bloody young whipper-snappers ’ . |
| 26 | She strode with a determined step into the hall , and in no time was going from room to room , throwing open doors , exclaiming with interest and delight . |
| 27 | Then , while Leith was wondering which stranger to Jimmy from which department had called in her absence , his cheerful face was splitting from ear to ear as he asked , ‘ Do I congratulate you or your fiancé ? ’ |
| 28 | The Monarch airlines jet was flying from Athens to Manchester . |