Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [v-ing] to [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did n't like it , but she could n't back away without making it very obvious that her nerve-ends were definitely reacting to his closeness . |
| 2 | And it was presumably owing to their encouragement that in the 1540s Crecquillon began to compose chansons and Clemens and Gombert increased their production from a trickle to a flood . |
| 3 | , he was only referring to his fear of Jack . |
| 4 | ‘ No , I … was just going to my room . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I was just talking to my bookie , ’ he said crisply , which was the way he treated money troubles . |
| 6 | ‘ I was just saying to my friend , there she is scribbling again . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I was just saying to my friend Chatterton that it 's really very dangerous to travel on tubes these days . |
| 8 | He was just warming to his task when Reed sold him out . |
| 9 | Mike Laister was still clinging to his point of view . |
| 10 | Then , realising she was still clinging to his arm , she snatched her hand away and moved to the other side of the path . |
| 11 | Her mother announced that she was now going to her lady friend and put grandfather 's money in her bag . |
| 12 | Fernie was now talking to his wife , rapidly , with just a hint of pleading . |
| 13 | The Begum family had rung a pizza delivery service three times on Saturday night when it was late delivering to their home in Heelands in Milton Keynes . |