Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [adv] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the beginning , although I felt that I wanted to get better , I was hanging on to the secure feeling that being ill brought . |
| 2 | Everyone was climbing on to the top bunks . |
| 3 | The black velvet dress she was wearing — the weather had changed at last — set off her pale skin and blonde hair , and she was looking forward to a new academic year . |
| 4 | After several weeks of sleeping bags and ‘ pretty awful food ’ , Ms Stephens , who lost a stone and half during the expedition , was looking forward to a hearty meal and a good night 's sleep in a proper bed . |
| 5 | One of Jonathan 's neighbours in Hornsey , north London , said last night : ‘ He was looking forward to a big Christmas . |
| 6 | When I left you last month I was looking forward to the second round of the Macpherson Paints UK Championships to be fished at Diglis Weir on the River Severn . |
| 7 | I SUPPOSE a lot of people are waiting to greet the first cuckoo of spring , but I was looking forward to the first hedgehog of spring . |
| 8 | No , I was looking forward to the Open because I 'd been stationed at Formby for my army service and I was anticipating meeting all my old friends from that time . |
| 9 | Meanwhile , Turner was looking ahead to the postwar period . |
| 10 | I was listening carefully to the Hon. Lady before the Hon. Gentleman intervened . |
| 11 | As the pillager passed by its glassy protuberance , she hesitated , swallowed her natural nausea and reached for it — thereby precipitating everything else she was balancing on to the tessellated tiles and into oblivion . |
| 12 | yeah , you see , so we were laughing about this , anyway , Christopher phoned up and said he got through to the second part , he was the only one that was going through to the second part and he phoned up about forty five minutes later to say that he 'd erm , he 'd got the job |
| 13 | When I arrived at MGM , I felt like I was going back to an enormous boarding school again . |
| 14 | Grand Met was going directly to the new format , but analysts were still working on the old style p&l accounts . |
| 15 | At home a few days later , she was pointing excitedly to a top shelf . |
| 16 | We instantly felt the week was getting off to a good start , a feeling reinforced by waking up the following morning to new , slightly heavy snow . |
| 17 | One moment she was quiet in the corner of the cage and the next she was flying across to the front corner of her cage , frantic with some purpose the bars and wire mesh would never allow her to achieve . |
| 18 | And at the same time , Lilian was coming up to the second stage . |
| 19 | As he prepared for murder , he was doing so to the incongruous background of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir 's rendering of The Battle Hymn of the Republic . |
| 20 | He was dancing up to the youngest dog again , sideways this time , head on one side , goading him . |
| 21 | From a paper selling to dissident literati and the children of CND It was extending out to a new rock culture , and this accelerated the departure of the old American influences . |
| 22 | In this instance he was referring chiefly to the international press . |
| 23 | It was referring only to the single cross-spar stunter where two bridle points are used fore and aft on the spine . |
| 24 | When Richard had gone she sat watching the other guests ; Stella was chatting animatedly to a lean , grey-haired man . |
| 25 | The lights went down further , and I guessed Kruger was working up to the big climax , whatever that was . |
| 26 | But Robert , on that evening , was dipping back to a famous essay by the great Cambridge economist . |
| 27 | And then a taxi stopped at her frantic signalling , and she was collapsing on to the slippery leather seat with a surge of relief that banished all other thoughts from her mind . |