Example sentences of "[pers pn] were [v-ing] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh you were talking to the cat ? |
| 2 | Oh are you going , oh I did n't realize you were going to the pub I thought you were going out somewhere . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ I thought you said you were going to the bridge ? ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | We were coming to the end of the day , and the light was starting to fade . |
| 7 | But we were driving to the ice-cap anyway and needed to reach the peaks by nightfall . |
| 8 | No because it was funny cos we were talking to the lady . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , she did , but it was when we were going to the station to see him off . |
| 10 | ‘ We were going to the cinema — last night . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | They each knew what they were bringing to the project . |
| 15 | They were referring to the deposit copy . |
| 16 | In this way they were referring to the fact that Steffi Graf was the only top ten player there . |
| 17 | They were walking to the boat . |
| 18 | They were running to the car . |
| 19 | I am satisfied that in their dealings with Mr. Docherty , which I will describe , they were following to the letter the procedures required of them by present Government policy . |
| 20 | A mini-moke waited for them , and soon they were driving to the beach house through acres of Thai beachland and greenery . |
| 21 | Every flipping two minutes they were coming to the toilet . |
| 22 | They were coming to the end of the motorway — which went nowhere , after the fashion of the country , having been built to please a politician it was said — and both of them knew a bar . |
| 23 | There was never any doubt in his mind that they would or could do so , and indeed he heard their shouts and as the next wave lifted him was able to look down upon them and see that they were luffing to the wind and preparing to beat back towards him . |
| 24 | No , they were Zionists , they were believers , they were responding to the call or answering a challenge . |
| 25 | The evening before , when the boy was buying a betel-leaf from a shop , the police had hauled him up as a vagabond ; they were responding to the jail authorities ' appeal to book more helpers … . |
| 26 | He reached for her , and then they were falling to the bed in a tangle of limbs and caresses and fevered kisses . |
| 27 | Better still , instead of retreating back to the crossroads , they were going to the cover of the dark wood which ran like a bastion down the left flank of the French route to Quatre Bras . |
| 28 | or if they were going to the university they would n't of gone there for the interview |
| 29 | Tonight they were going to the theatre . |
| 30 | They were so green that they were going to the CAB to find out about unions . |