Example sentences of "were [v-ing] [adv prt] to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At twenty past ten Sandison put his book away and sat back to watch the people who were walking down to the square . |
| 2 | Heinrich and Martha were walking back to the Reach hand in hand . |
| 3 | Then they were gliding in to a crown of diamond lights and it was time . |
| 4 | Meanwhile back at Tenbury , the holly and mistletoe were fetching up to a pound for a pound in weight . |
| 5 | La Dolce vita had turned unimaginably sour and it was not long before the Italian stallions were heading back to the English First Division . |
| 6 | Britain under Harold Macmillan was booming and new Austins and Morrises were flooding on to the country 's antiquated roads . |
| 7 | Were going up to the test match at the Oval , Clive likes that . |
| 8 | Neighbours said they were going back to the country . |
| 9 | ‘ We were going back to the hotel when it happened . |
| 10 | He had never forgotten the day in the bide shed when Nutty had told him the horses were going back to the knacker 's , and the fearful panic that had exploded inside him , worse than any brushes with the police or his father , worse than anything he could ever remember . |
| 11 | It did not matter that they were going back to the house of the Scarabae . |
| 12 | There they were going down to the car . |
| 13 | I think the army thought they were going in to a situation where they could they could help , they saw themselves if you like as the referees er as a neutral party in between two sides . |
| 14 | The men paused in their tracks , locating the sound , and within seconds we were hurrying back to a place that we 'd passed where the sheer slope of the mountain was broken only by the deep rift of a water-course . |
| 15 | By the inter-war years such Sikh artisans had a number of Kenyan assistants adopting their skills ; by the 1950s the Sikhs were moving on to the role of investor and entrepreneur in both construction and industry , leaving the way clear for their former assistants to take on the role of artisan . |
| 16 | He said we were holding on to the ball , but we wanted it to come out . |
| 17 | My parents were pointing up to a beam of light and saying ‘ Dumbo ’ . |
| 18 | But more people were coming on to the paper . |
| 19 | We were coming up to a twist in the precipitous road ; as we swung round it , the wheels screamed and we seemed to swerve towards the edge of the precipice . |
| 20 | Just as we were coming up to the laundry , Kaptan broke free of the Corporal and ran down the side of the building . |
| 21 | Fearful anticipation had proved somewhat worse than the event , and most Viennese were coming round to the opinion that , whatever the failings of Napoleon 's men , they were at least an improvement upon the Hapsburgs ' Russian allies , whom everyone loathed . |
| 22 | On the far bank white oxen were coming down to the water . |
| 23 | and then you go I 'm gon na get that one at the top and they were running up to the top picked it and they , and ran down again |
| 24 | But the bills were dropping on to the doormat and I felt I had no choice . |
| 25 | They were settling down to a family Christmas at home when Belinda suddenly got very tired and her temperature soared . |
| 26 | Readers were settling down to the novel 's opening instalment — not a venture to be recommended for ‘ people with weak nerves ’ remarked Strakhov , the gifted critic — when a murder story broke in the newspapers . |
| 27 | The great boom of the war years had passed and the docks were settling down to the post war doldrums . |