Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the street below the house with the dome people were pausing to look up at the arrows in the spike . |
| 2 | You see , so these people were going to move in at the weekend so had to put a stop to that cos they had no authority to move in there until the solicitors try and get this thing sorted out . |
| 3 | Generally , when you played Jimmy Connors you understood you were going to stay out on the court for four or five hours , at least . ’ |
| 4 | Class divisions hitherto non-existent or only latent in English society were beginning to open up as the Agrarian and Industrial Revolutions gained momentum , and popular unrest was in the air . |
| 5 | I was busy doing interviews , as the media were beginning to pick up on the story . |
| 6 | Street lights were starting to come on in the distance , crimson slivers slowly brightening to orange . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , if you were intending to go back to the States with your fiancée … ’ |
| 8 | Several Perks were fighting to get out of the crack . |
| 9 | A couple of weeks later , just as most of the officers and men of the Allied Screening Commission in Verona were preparing to go off for the weekend to the country , an enormous , chauffeur-driven Fiat motor car with a flag on the front of it rolled up in the drive . |
| 10 | One or two offers of touring productions or guest star status in provincial reps came in , a sure sign that their managements were trying to cash in on the name of Michael Banks before it was completely forgotten . |
| 11 | They swarmed like lice over the camp , and there was a battle being waged at the boat which men were trying to push out of the shallows whilst others held off the beasts . |
| 12 | It rained solidly every single day in fact , and it did n't stop as we were queuing to drive on to the ferry . |
| 13 | How she was goin' to put up with the wee 'un 's fancy talk and fancy ways , she did n't know . |
| 14 | It took a moment for the full enormity of what was happening to filter through to the brandy-drenched consciousness of the member reading The Times . |
| 15 | Burhanuddin Rabbani , leader of the moderate Sunni Moslem Jamiat-i-Islami , took over the presidency of the interim government on June 28 from Seghbatullah Mujjaddedi , despite earlier suggestions that Mujjaddedi was seeking to go back on the April 24 Peshawar power-sharing accord reached by seven Sunni Moslem mujaheddin groups in Pakistan following the overthrow of the Soviet-backed Najibullah regime [ see pp. 38847 ; 38915 ] . |
| 16 | The German Siemens was in a stronger position in several ways ; in addition to its computer and telecommunications equipment strengths , Siemens in the late 1980S was attempting to catch up with the vertically integrated Japanese electronics companies ; it was making a major chip effort , with use by the German car industry especially in mind . |
| 17 | As soon as lunch was over , Mr Evans was fidgeting to get back to the shop . |
| 18 | ‘ He said he was going to drive up to the Spaniard 's for a drink . |
| 19 | I did n't know quite where or how or with whom but I was going to turn in at the Gendarmerie and take it from there . |
| 20 | She looked from him to Michael and realised that her brother was going to go over to the man . |
| 21 | Looking around her as if she thought someone was going to run out of the field behind her and save her , she saw that the man was much nearer . |
| 22 | He really gets steamed up if they 're left open , you 'd think somebody was going to run off with the timber mill . ’ |
| 23 | There was no way I was going to walk out at the end of all that . |
| 24 | It was n't just here and now , he was part of the past and he was going to sign up for the WEA history and archaeology classes . |
| 25 | He especially did n't like to think what would happen if his mother ever discovered that he was going to sneak out of the house to attend an illegal meeting a few days hence . |
| 26 | Meat Loaf came on to a volley of missiles and for one , beautiful moment , it seemed he was going to get down from the stage and beat some arsehole to death . |
| 27 | For a moment I thought he was going to get back to the DIY metaphor and start to try to get them to see me as undercoat or Jesus Christ as primer , but , instead , he recovered himself enough to say , ‘ Great News ! ’ |
| 28 | did n't realize that half the family was going to end up on the dole did we ? |
| 29 | Yeah well changes platforms of all these trains , anyway after a bit we decided that the Redditch train was going to come in before the train , so , er they did n't change it to say it was n't going to Redditch cos once when I was doing that they said to me , the lad was it , because it 's not to ready to change that time , you would n't matter , cos oh there 's people here waiting to go to Redditch , change it , so he said oh anyway it came , the twelve six came all the young folks going to you should of seen the number that had got off |
| 30 | Chairman I , I , I am and some of my colleagues a little confused on this paper , erm and I really ask that I , I understood that when we discussed this last , erm that the , the minor work which was one , one debated , erm was going to be increased to two million and that two million er , two million spend was going to come out of the existing budget , I 'm not quite sure from this whether it is or it is n't , could you explain ? |