Example sentences of "[pers pn] were [v-ing] to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You looked wonderful , ’ she said , as if she were speaking to a ten-year-old after a school play . |
| 2 | She held out her hand , palm upwards now , and moved her head slowly as she looked at Aggie as if she were talking to a friend who would understand that a cousin of hers had not married beneath her . |
| 3 | ‘ But if I tell you , ’ Harriet Shakespeare said , as though she were talking to an idiot , ‘ I 'm putting Liam 's life in worse danger . |
| 4 | For example , to send data to the communications port ( serial port without the printer filter ) , you can open a file to : COM.0 and PRINT to it just as if you were PRINTing to a file . |
| 5 | It 's like you were speaking to a foreigner you know a French person or something . |
| 6 | I , I said I was sp you were speaking to an expert er so we went off at a blind tangent . |
| 7 | I also heard that you were selling to a surgeon from the hospital . ’ |
| 8 | It was fascinating to hear hir talk ; pretending first one minute you were talking to a girl , and then the next , a boy . |
| 9 | okay , okay So supposing , supposing I did an interview with you , the , the idea about the pub talk is I 'm trying to get you to use the language as if you were talking to a mate . |
| 10 | If you were talking to a prostitute on the beat , you 'd get booked for gossiping — for idling your time . |
| 11 | Oh you were talking to the cat ? |
| 12 | Oh are you going , oh I did n't realize you were going to the pub I thought you were going out somewhere . |
| 13 | And I mean you yourself , you know , during the Westland you you you left a cabinet meeting , apparently Mrs Thatcher thought you were going to the loo and you went on television to say , I 'm resigning because I think she 's got it wrong over Westland . |
| 14 | ‘ I thought you said you were going to the bridge ? ’ |
| 15 | The method of composition helps to explain the feel of the blank verse ; it should be read aloud , in a quiet meditative manner , as if we were listening to a man trying hard to clarify his own thoughts about a difficult topic and at the same lime explaining it to somebody else . |
| 16 | Soon afterwards we were moving to the town so we got in touch with Shamrock 's owners to tell them we could sell her along with all our horses . |
| 17 | We were coming to the end of the day , and the light was starting to fade . |
| 18 | But we were driving to the ice-cap anyway and needed to reach the peaks by nightfall . |
| 19 | We were talking to a woman in the shop over this bathroom and he said , tt , let's make a . |
| 20 | No because it was funny cos we were talking to the lady . |
| 21 | We were going to a country pub for lunch . |
| 22 | We were in the forest to try to get less deep snow , he was told ; we were going to a campsite that Odd-Knut had prepared . |
| 23 | ‘ Well , she did , but it was when we were going to the station to see him off . |
| 24 | ‘ We were going to the cinema — last night . |
| 25 | We just could n't get off we had the Metropolitan Police escorting us through you see , to the , we were going to the south . |
| 26 | In effect , they were tending to the view that the very change in law brings about a change in the nature of society and human relationships within it . |
| 27 | It was the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Medau College in Berlin in 1929 but not much was made of this , Dr Jochen Medau explained that they were looking to the future rather than the past . |
| 28 | This odd instructor shouted at them constantly in a tone of voice that suggested they were clinging to a ledge hundreds of feet above a lava-filled crater , being pursued by leathery-skinned trolls . |
| 29 | They each knew what they were bringing to the project . |
| 30 | I do n't think they were listening to a word I was saying , they were just watching to see what Dawn was going to do next . |