Example sentences of "[pers pn] were [verb] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | If they were held on to the animal or plant would die . |
| 33 | During the Second World War they were taken down to the dark stone vaults beneath the Half Moon Battery and buried to prevent them falling into enemy hands . |
| 34 | They were brought up to the drawbridge-end . |
| 35 | And then er a and then after they had been in hay ricks for a long time they were brought up to the farm and built into a bigger stack , a bigger thing . |
| 36 | Approximately one hour later , they were brought back to the same room and asked to retell the story again . |
| 37 | And William in there with fists flailing and Preston inevitably drawn in , too , as the fight spread until they were hauled off to the headmaster 's study for retribution ; he was a caning head and it was two strokes on each hand for a fight in the playground , four for the classroom . |
| 38 | And then he went on and he landed up in Seattle the time they were going up to the Klondike Gold Rush . |
| 39 | They were going up to the we call it . |
| 40 | There they were going down to the car . |
| 41 | Neighbours said they were going back to the country . |
| 42 | It did not matter that they were going back to the house of the Scarabae . |
| 43 | He took a briefcase with him , as if he were going back to the Works . |
| 44 | Later the same afternoon , seven of us were ordered over to the medical centre for a check up by the doctor , who turned out to be a medical student doing his military service . |