Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [was/were] [adv] [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | On some doorsteps the milk was still waiting to be taken in . |
| 2 | The gipsy was loudly demanding to be allowed in to see his sister . |
| 3 | But the horror was only doing to him what it always did . |
| 4 | Although the threat of having to meet Rohan had been removed , the wedding was still going to be an ordeal for her , and she 'd been sorely tempted to plead sudden illness and stay away from the actual ceremony and celebrations . |
| 5 | The wind was now gusting to Force 11 and visibility still poor . |
| 6 | The car was already shaking to the fighting and teasing of the other three children , but a subdued , respectful hush entered the vehicle as Linda and Nick were bundled in . |
| 7 | The limousine was finally slowing to a halt and they scrambled for their shoes . |
| 8 | Although Port-au-Prince was under fire from the oldest and most primitive of artillery pieces , which were so ill-preserved as to be as dangerous to their operators as to their targets , the effect was still terrifying to the populace , who were unused to the banshee wail that echoed overhead and preceded bone-crushing explosive impacts . |
| 9 | But it was obvious that the girl was only trying to be respectful . |
| 10 | Mr Aitchison said last night that the consortium was still speaking to ‘ a number of interested parties demonstrating a willingness to help us ’ . |
| 11 | The child was soon going to be taller than she was . |
| 12 | amazed I actually did erm what happened erm I was happened to be upstairs and my wife shouted quick quick there 's a zither , so I zoomed down here and the lady was still talking to you and a dialled well consequently I did n't get through for quite some time but I did eventually , erm your lady on the reception said well it 's gone now she said but I will give the lady 's telephone number and I spoke to the lady and told her the position and she says well if it 's not collected by so time I 'll g ring you back and I said well I 've been after one for a long long time she said well I ca n't understand it cos I 've been advertising it . |
| 13 | Bruce Jones , a leading leisure analyst at the broker , Smith New Court , said the outcome was always going to be difficult to call , ‘ given that Cook 's 8 per cent stake was a blocking factor ’ . |
| 14 | Det Supt Ian Peacock , in charge of the inquiry , said the investigation was also moving to Leicestershire . |
| 15 | The band was clearly appealing to ‘ completist ’ fans with a second 12-inch single with additional tracks and a second 4-track CD with further additional tracks . |
| 16 | The widespread implications of the Famine were already coming to the surface . |
| 17 | The major was also writing to Emma and a mother-of-three who worked in a northern factory . |
| 18 | Police say a stolen lorry which had four foot long spikes welded to the back was probably going to be used in a ram raid . |
| 19 | I had put Unidentified Flying Objects right back on the agenda where they belonged , and , from this day forth , the First Church of Christ the Spiritualist was never going to be the same again . |
| 20 | She supposed the tensions and upsets of the day were finally getting to her . |
| 21 | She 'd told her husband she was going out for a walk with their pet dog , Kirsty , when she was found the dog was still clinging to her . |
| 22 | Er I merely want to comment on the erm apparent misunderstanding on my comments on windfalls earlier on , erm it has been suggested that we we 're tightening down on windfalls , was the quote actually used , erm , there is no intention in the local plan to er ignore the er windfalls , to actually deal with them in a different way than had happened in the past , clearly if sites come forward which are windfalls which are suitable in environmental terms then the City Council will give , as P B G one requires , the appropriate consideration to those applications , what I was merely saying this morning was the the likelihood of such windfalls coming forward , and the scale was clearly going to be substantially less than had occurred in the past , and the the figure of eighty a eighty a year , which was for a five year period , which was quoted to me , erm clearly would not be representative of my expectation of the future . |
| 23 | Second division , Swansea away in the cup was never going to be an easy ticket for Oxford , but when Nick Cusack scored with just over 10 minutes to go at the Vetch Field , United looked a good bet for the 4th round . |
| 24 | The human was already getting to its feet . |
| 25 | THE £3 billion Channel Tunnel high-speed rail link and the £300 million Heathrow Express line are to go ahead , Chancellor Norman Lamont announced yesterday.But the future of the £1.7 billion cross-London rail link Crossrail appeared less certain with Mr Lamont saying the scheme was now going to be a joint venture between the public and private sectors.The much-delayed 68-mile Channel Tunnel fast link will not go into London 's King 's Cross station as British Rail hoped , but instead will terminate at neighbouring St Pancras — a less expensive option.But Mr Lamont did say that Government money would be put into the scheme which could be completed by the end of the decade.The 15-mile Paddington-Heathrow fast link — a joint venture between BR and airport operator BAA — will be started later this year and should be finished by the second half of 1997 . |
| 26 | Yet Jaq feared that for all its power the Imperium was slowly succumbing to the attentions of aliens , of renegades , of daemons . |
| 27 | They could n't believe it was all real — that the nightmare was actually happening to them . |
| 28 | The van was probably going to be used in a ram raid . |
| 29 | As waves of combat mission flew out by night and day , the commander of this R A F tornado squadron warned that despite early successes , the task was never going to be easy . |
| 30 | For research purposes , the laboratory was just beginning to be separated from the kitchen ; but for the nineteenth century the centres were the laboratory and the museum . |