Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [pron] [noun] to the " in BNC.
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| 31 | What I was really counting on was finding my way to the bed which Dennis had been denied . |
| 32 | Shafgar ( 4.1 ) was showing his paintings to the teacher . |
| 33 | She had just walked the course and was making her way to the weighing room before the first race when she heard the familiar Bronx accent behind her . |
| 34 | She was making her way to the Chester 's stand , sunk in thought , when the familiar sandy-haired man loomed in front of her . |
| 35 | But on this night he was making one last move through the crowded bar , and at that exact moment O was making his way to the door . |
| 36 | Last night Mr Cronje was making his way to the spot where Elizabeth and Julie were murdered . |
| 37 | One of his earliest escapades there was to take his students to the Leaning Tower and drop weights from it , thereby disproving one of Aristotle 's dicta on motion . |
| 38 | The ultimate aim was to return their orangs to the wild . |
| 39 | Of these , commencing its odyssey some time after Peter 's death , and with the participation of the Academy of Sciences , the most famous was the Second Kamchatka , or ‘ Great Northern ’ expedition , led by the Danish seaman , Vitus Bering , who was to lend his name to the narrow straits separating Siberia from the American continent at the northern extremity of the Pacific Ocean . |
| 40 | By now , rather than dreaming of becoming Regius Professor of History , I was planning my speech to the cameras when I won my first Open Championship . |
| 41 | The priest was offering his fingers to the policeman who poured some water over them . |
| 42 | The month 's first action on arriving in Britain was to rush her child to the airport doctor . |