Example sentences of "were [v-ing] [to-vb] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | After they 'd finished their lunch Valerie Stevens took her husband off across the field to where a little knot of donkeys were assembling to take part in the donkey derby , an important annual event at the OBEX Family Day . |
| 2 | The head of the United Nations Environment Programme ( UNEP ) , Mostafa Tolba , claimed in early September that a Swiss and an Italian company were seeking to take advantage of the civil war in Somalia by dumping toxic waste in that country . |
| 3 | The General Workers ' Union ( UGT ) and the Workers ' Commissions ( CCOO ) were seeking to put pressure on the government to negotiate a plan for regional reindustrialization in order to compensate for 40,000 projected job losses . |
| 4 | They told me they were going to take control of the ship and become pirates . |
| 5 | and with so much steam coming from the forwards all the signs were that Gloucester were going to take sale to the cleaners … |
| 6 | Paul : ‘ I thought we were going to bring opera to the masses ! |
| 7 | ‘ In the early Fifties , we all started setting up Resistance networks again , all over Europe , when it looked as if the Soviets were going to come west on the next train : , The Air Force was particularly interested : escape routes for aircrew and so on . |
| 8 | As Moser comments : " By the middle of the 1930s surveys were beginning to assume importance in the field of town planning and reconstruction " . |
| 9 | I saw Mrs , and Mrs said they were aiming to raise money for the scanner appeal . |
| 10 | Her legs were threatening to give way at the knees . |
| 11 | ‘ Our ancestors were trying to put Earth into the same orbit as Heaven . ’ |
| 12 | About 1820 , possibly due to the persuasion and influence of William Gilkison , Galt became the London agent for people in Upper Canada who were trying to obtain compensation from the British Government for losses they had sustained in the 1812/13 war with the U.S.A. He submitted a plan to the Government which led to the creation of the Canada Company , and , as its first Secretary , he was sent to Canada to acquire land . |
| 13 | A Trust spokesman said the volunteers were hoping to remove grass from the marsh so reeds can spread across the water . |
| 14 | Mr Sutherland and his wife , Anita , who were planning to spend Christmas in the Algarve , were last night trying to organise a flight back to Holland . |