Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [to-vb] in [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | They were preparing to check in for a flight to Tokyo . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | ‘ I would n't wear muddy hunting boots if I was going to climb in through a bedroom window and murder a lady , ’ said Ethel . |
6 | 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 |
7 | It was a glorious day , warm and sunny with hardly a cloud in the sky , but by late afternoon a fresh breeze was beginning to blow in from the west . |
8 | He was across the road and halfway back down Fleet Street before it occurred to him that they had been staring at him like that because they thought he was trying to push in at the head of the queue . |
9 | Or he was trying to get in through the one window in the house which was approachable from the tree side . |