Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [pron] to the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If they were taking him to the police station , why did they walk three miles . |
| 2 | ‘ I thought you were taking me to the police station . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I believe that someone knew you had the sack with you and that you were taking it to the outlaws . ’ |
| 4 | Yet now he was praising her to the skies . |
| 5 | ‘ He was feeding them to the tigers ! ! ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Ma must have taken to cooking up bits of food in her bedroom , ’ Algy said when Lady Grubb was doing something to the plants and she and Guy were alone with father in his study . |
| 7 | The key to impressing Mum and Auntie Jean , and the best way to keep their tongues off the risible subject of my loin-cloth , which inevitably had them quaking with laughter , was to introduce them to the actors afterwards , telling them which sit-coms and police programmes they 'd seen them in . |