Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [adv prt] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we were stepping on to the adjoining barge , the man on the bench called out to us . |
| 2 | Tremayne said nothing until we were driving back to the stable and then all he did was ask me if I were happy with what I 'd done . |
| 3 | They were walking on to the long ridge they had been able to see from the cottage window . |
| 4 | In addition to this , all members of the permanent staff were comfortably installed and were certain of receiving Red Cross food supplies , while the others were passing through to the unknown . |
| 5 | Most were turning back to the western shore , to life but certain capture . |
| 6 | This suggests that both groups of children were adding on to the larger digit a number of steps equal in value to the smaller digit . |
| 7 | The British staff at Culham were pointing out to the eminent scientists that they are paid less than their colleagues from fourteen other European countries working alongside them . |
| 8 | They 'd just sunk that pit and they were starting to turn coal and the the the miners were straggling back to the new pit you see ? |
| 9 | They were working up to the crucial ( as it was then ) question of how and why she had come to identify the first body as Uncle Mossycop 's . |
| 10 | At the beginning , although I felt that I wanted to get better , I was hanging on to the secure feeling that being ill brought . |
| 11 | Everyone was climbing on to the top bunks . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | yeah , you see , so we were laughing about this , anyway , Christopher phoned up and said he got through to the second part , he was the only one that was going through to the second part and he phoned up about forty five minutes later to say that he 'd erm , he 'd got the job |
| 14 | And at the same time , Lilian was coming up to the second stage . |
| 15 | He was dancing up to the youngest dog again , sideways this time , head on one side , goading him . |
| 16 | The lights went down further , and I guessed Kruger was working up to the big climax , whatever that was . |
| 17 | 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 . |