Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] were [v-ing] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What looked like ancient coach-lamps were springing to life all over the high stone walls , like a son et lumière display in some centuries-old castle . |
| 2 | Escaping to Somerville during the war , she remembered her wonderful last year , when battle-scarred heroes were returning to university . |
| 3 | Increasingly , people on these and other estates were turning to loan sharks , who offered money even without being asked . |
| 4 | The British Embassy made arrangements to evacuate the British colony and by April almost half a million Parisians were travelling to safety in the south of France . |
| 5 | They were first introduced to me when I was 14 by friends who were 16 , 17 , 18 , who at that time were going to Art College and they introduced me as it was then to five-bob deals of black and stuff like that , y'know . |