Example sentences of "[pron] was [v-ing] [adv prt] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For this print , I was thinking back to the patterns of light and shade created by strong sunlight . ’ |
| 2 | At the beginning , although I felt that I wanted to get better , I was hanging on to the secure feeling that being ill brought . |
| 3 | I was hanging on to the ledge at the deep end , arms out in the crucifix position when I saw her come out of the ladies ’ changing rooms wearing a yellow and white striped one-piece . |
| 4 | Eric was sitting in the front looking absurdly English and in the back was an old man I was taking back to the mountains . |
| 5 | As I was walking over to the piano I was thinking , ‘ Should I really be doing this ? ’ |
| 6 | One day , I was walking back to the house , and had my camera with me . |
| 7 | I felt like a portly 60 year old man with a beard , and that I was shuffling down to the shops in my espadrilles like he does , with his horrible , ratty little dog . ’ |
| 8 | By not eating I was going back to the security of needing my family , not being relied upon but having someone to rely on instead . |
| 9 | When I arrived at MGM , I felt like I was going back to an enormous boarding school again . |
| 10 | And it was Alice , right , and as I was going out to the door , she said to Alice , Alice must have said to her , are we going tonight ? |
| 11 | I was coming back to the fox hunting here , when it 's mentioned sorry about that Chair . |
| 12 | Yes , to be fair Jenny came in er , on Friday to talk to me about it , but I just did n't have time , I was rushing off to a meeting so I 've |
| 13 | She was looking down to the garden gate , which at that moment Greg Hocking was closing carefully behind him . |
| 14 | As I understood it she was flying back to the States tomorrow . ’ |
| 15 | When she recovered she was holding on to the edge of the table for balance . |
| 16 | And then she was holding on to the branches , feeling where the Robemaker had hacked and sawn at them , knowing she must be hurting the Larch even more , and trying to be as gentle as possible . |
| 17 | Somewhere below , only a few minutes away but in another world completely , she was running back to the house , Simon in hot pursuit . |
| 18 | Yvonne seemed silently furious , then announced she was going up to the lifeboat shed to buy some souvenir crap or whatever . |
| 19 | Minny : one day when I 'd been gushing about her dress when she was going out to a dance . |
| 20 | She was going out to a party , I got a bucket of water , threw it over her head ! |
| 21 | She was going out to a party . |
| 22 | She was going back to the knacker 's . |
| 23 | Emily left me , mouthing as she went out of the door that she was going back to the office . |
| 24 | Then , head bent , she was hurrying back to the villa , suddenly knowing in her heart what had to be done . |
| 25 | The woman had left the bags and O saw she was walking back to the child , he heard her heels , but O did not stay to see what she did to the child ( and so he did not see her pick the child up in her arms and hold him tight ) ; he turned quickly , and left the station as fast as he could . |
| 26 | But she was trotting off to the churchyard to clean the stone the other day . |
| 27 | One morning as she was rushing back to the changing rooms one of the models slipped and twisted her ankle . |
| 28 | And then a taxi stopped at her frantic signalling , and she was collapsing on to the slippery leather seat with a surge of relief that banished all other thoughts from her mind . |
| 29 | You talk about going and — all I was afraid she was going to do — she was coming on to the road so she would run into me ! |
| 30 | As the pillager passed by its glassy protuberance , she hesitated , swallowed her natural nausea and reached for it — thereby precipitating everything else she was balancing on to the tessellated tiles and into oblivion . |