Example sentences of "who were [v-ing] to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he started thumping the sand and wailing at the seagulls — real Play for Today stuff — and an elderly couple who were listening to a radio behind a wind-break looked quite alarmed . |
| 2 | ‘ What colour was the wolf ? ’ asked the children , who were listening to the story with great interest . |
| 3 | The aisles were full of people who were coming to the front . |
| 4 | The Scouts had rushed skiddingly from one pod to the next , annihilating languid swanky drugsters , warbling liquorites , squirming orgiasts who were responding to the war in their own indulgent style , if they even heeded it at all . |
| 5 | But when we talked directly with them , they refused to confirm this , they refused to put us in touch with the ship , they refused to confirm whether or not er the four activists who were walking to the test site had been apprehended , whether they 're safe , whether they 're being held separately , and so on . |