Example sentences of "was [adv] [v-ing] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet Jaq feared that for all its power the Imperium was slowly succumbing to the attentions of aliens , of renegades , of daemons . |
| 2 | No — she was presumably seeing to the food and Rupert did n't look the kind of man who would be good at arranging flowers . |
| 3 | It was all according to the plan . |
| 4 | I said walkers should make a courtesy check with estates when doing a specific trek in Wester Ross , but I was only referring to the peak of the stalking period — mid-August to mid October — and not the whole year . , |
| 5 | As before , the old man was slow coming to the door , but this time she was ready for him . |
| 6 | She believes that the sudden growth in women 's writing and the interest in issues relating to women was largely owing to the rise of the companionate marriage . |
| 7 | I spent it on a bike , carried on doing a paper round , and by the time I was 14 , I was already contributing to the family coffers . |
| 8 | By the time they got there he was already talking to the watchman . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But , Debbie was just getting to the stage where she was just to same on the shift , erm , but yes , you need , like , th , the , you get certain people that , they just need the challenge , but then you can find yourself erm , getting into a situation where you 're giving them those extra things to do but you 're taking them away from somebody else , so they 're like just going into the background , you know . |
| 11 | I was just going to the exit door when I saw the young girl s standing at the second bedroom , crying . |
| 12 | They 're gon na catch me ’ and he was just talking to the film crew and not the camera and was not conscious of the fact there was probably 14 million people watching it . |
| 13 | At a rally addressed by Labour 's Dennis Healey , they spent most of the time trying to avoid one of their school dinner ladies , who was forever shouting to the platform : ‘ You 're just feathering the beds for the Tories . ’ |
| 14 | No matter how well matched Harry and Cora-Beth appeared to be , Aubrey was rapidly coming to the conclusion that Harry still harboured romantic memories of his sister . |
| 15 | And , although she was rapidly coming to the conclusion that she had made a fool of herself all down the line , she still did n't quite know how . |
| 16 | And I was always saying to the girls at school for heavens sake keep your hair back , it 's only bunches , whatever , back when they was younger they always had plait or bunches , . |
| 17 | It had looked quite straightforward , thought Fenella , who was not very used to maps and was still adjusting to the vastness of this world after small Renascia . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The party leadership of Mr Milos Jakes was still clinging to the hope that it could separate ‘ the workers ’ from ‘ the intellectuals ’ , he said . |
| 20 | The party leadership of Mr Milos Jakes was still clinging to the hope that it could separate ‘ the workers ’ from ‘ the intellectuals ’ , he said . |
| 21 | In other words , Athens was still holding to the idea of a central Greek , religiously based land empire . |
| 22 | Ferdinando was still vowing to the Brownings , angry themselves , that he would not send another scudo to England and calling heaven to witness he had been cheated and betrayed , but she lay there impervious . |
| 23 | On entering the house , the defendant said that he was unhappy at Paulette 's having married Zaidie and that he was going to obtain a copy of the marriage certificate and would shoot Paulette if she had married while she was still talking to the defendant ( the date of the marriage was actually 10 December 1986 ) . |
| 24 | About half of the sixty-five guests had wandered through into the lecture hall , but since Anthea was due to give the address and she was still talking to the professor , there was time to spare . |
| 25 | She was still whispering to the gibbon to soothe it , but her innocent face was puzzled , as though she could not quite grasp everything that had happened . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , as late as the 1740s , the British government was still contributing to the cost of housing the now permanent Russian representatives in London at a rate proportional to their diplomatic rank — £200 a year for ministers-resident , £400 for envoys or ambassadors . |
| 27 | The decision to postpone the Second Front , first to 1843 and then to 1944 , was deeply displeasing to the Russians , who felt they were being left to bear the brunt of the fighting against Germany . |
| 28 | At the second last fence Crisp was still ten lengths to the good but he was clearly coming to the end of his tether . |
| 29 | He reached for his cup , and there was Julian with the flagon lifted , ready to refill both his and Hotspur 's , so silently and impassively that they might almost have dreamed her into the fringes of their conference , but for the fourth cup which had appeared beside theirs , and which she was also filling to the brim . |
| 30 | And , while holding a conversation with her client , she was also listening to the voice of her broker , relaying prices from the floor of the Metal Exchange in Plantation House through the loudspeaker on the wall above her desk . |