Example sentences of "[adv] he was [verb] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hope it will la apparently he was talking to Kathy , no , yeah , I always get , I always think Kathy and Jenny should be the other way round no |
| 2 | Perhaps he was going to Porteneil to get drunk in the Rock Hotel , or perhaps he was off to Inverness , where he often goes on business he prefers to keep mysterious , but I suspected that it was really something to do with Eric . |
| 3 | So he was attracted to Evans-Pritchard 's contention that ‘ the sociologist should also be a moral philosopher and that , as such , he should have a set of definite beliefs and values in terms of which he evaluates the facts he studies as a sociologist ’ . |
| 4 | So he was brought to trial so they could test out this , this whole situation , get to the bottom of it and the , the high priest Kiathas was the central figure in organising the troops . |
| 5 | Because Lee went to Garth House his Mum took objection to him , and anyway he was moving to Thirkett , was n't he ? |
| 6 | When Mr Steen rang on Friday afternoon to say he was n't certain whether or not he was returning to London at the weekend , she had checked the petrol in the car in case he might want it . |
| 7 | The more de Gaulle insisted that his was not a party and that he was appealing to all patriotic men and women of every class , the more he was conforming to stereotypes of right-wing authoritarianism . |
| 8 | ‘ That bitch … ’ said Surkov softly , and I knew at once he was referring to Imogen . |
| 9 | A few weeks later he was transferred to Newcastle United for a fee of £90,000 , becoming the first player to be signed up by soccer legend Keegan as new manager of the First Division club . |
| 10 | At the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian war some months later he was recalled to Germany ; he served as a stretcher-bearer in the army of the Loire and was wounded . |
| 11 | A year later he was deported to Turkey for his public condemnation of the Shah 's agreement to grant diplomatic immunity to American military advisers and their support staff . |
| 12 | A few minutes later he was talking to Pooley . |
| 13 | An hour later he was standing to attention in a depleted square of those who had survived the battle . |
| 14 | It 's Lord Blandford 's second trip to Pentonville … there was a drugs sentence in 1986 … and two years ago he was sent to Oxford prison for driving offences . |
| 15 | Increasingly he was attracted to Black America , first as a preacher in Black churches and then in civil rights organisations such as the NAACP and the Urban League . |
| 16 | Arguably he was known to Londoners less for his medical expertise than for his incredible eccentricity , which was exaggerated by a long beard , a predilection for extraordinary costume and his habit of riding about in the streets and Hyde Park on a white pony , which he sometimes painted all purple or , when the mood took him , purple with black spots . |
| 17 | Eventually he was taken to hospital . |
| 18 | Graham Burrell was a Wop/AG with 114 Sqn ( Blenheims ) , then he was posted to India , serving with 152 OTU and 215 Sqn . |
| 19 | Then he was transferred to Oxford 's John Radcliffe Hospital , with heart problems . |
| 20 | And if he could not find the Dwarves , then he was going to Sgurr Dearg and home . |
| 21 | Vananu 's brother Meir Vananu told the Davar newspaper that the court had " rejected my brother 's request to allow the public to know how he was brought to Israel " . |
| 22 | But instead he was attracted to men , and he crucified himself for it . ’ |
| 23 | Gregory says he was the son of a slave and that he came to prominence in the household of king Charibert , whence he was promoted to being comes of Tours . |
| 24 | His monastery was strongly affected by the evangelical movement in Seville in the 1550s , when he was converted to Protestantism , thereafter remaining a convinced Calvinist . |
| 25 | A distraught Leonie tried unsuccessfully to contact Hugo to warn him and the first he knew of the débâcle was when he was summoned to Nicholson 's cramped stale-tobacco smelling office . |
| 26 | He continued working on his translation in Scotland until 1837 , when he was sent to Persia by the synod of the United Secession Church to complete his labours . |
| 27 | Then it was repeated late at night to salute Havel when he was sent to prison again . |
| 28 | Hobson had been associated with the UN Trust Territory since 1963 , and had served in Belau until 1977 when he was transferred to Saipan ( Northern Marianas ) . |
| 29 | He entered the world of local government in 1968 , when he was elected to Cheshire County Council at the age of 25 . |
| 30 | Creevey was educated at Newcome 's School , Hackney , which favoured ‘ the sons of noblemen and gentlemen ’ , from c .1780 to 1787 , when he was admitted to Queens ' College , Cambridge , whence he graduated in 1789 as seventh wrangler . |