Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [noun] [prep] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I felt insulted ; Otto was confiding information about Jean-Claude to me . |
| 2 | Darren started going to a special school , but in ‘ 84 my drinking did start getting out of hand and I was pushing Darren from pillar to post . |
| 3 | It appears , from later information , that she was travelling light from London to Blackburn . |
| 4 | In the year 1669 , a peasant was taking grain from Reblingen to Nordhausen . |
| 5 | A British Rail spokeswoman could not say whether the lorry driver who was taking rolls of newspaper to Scarborough would face charges . |
| 6 | Actually I was flitting people from Gedling to Blidworth with this horse and dray . |
| 7 | Later on during the Civil War the Major was carrying dispatches from Bridgnorth to Shrewsbury when he was captured by Cromwell 's troops . |
| 8 | We were dismayed to learn that the new editor was making decisions without access to the full file on our paper . |
| 9 | She was garnering awards from Japan to Israel and Ireland , embarking on a movie career that seemed certain to lead to Hollywood stardom — she had even achieved the final confirmation of her status as a member of the élite band entitled to call themselves superstars , a wax image of herself at Madame Tussaud 's . |
| 10 | However , there was mounting concern amongst delegates to the CUC 's annual conference that — against the background of trends in government policy and the declining awareness and appreciation by the general public of the value of higher education — the CUC was not meeting the objective ‘ to engender support for the enhancement of higher education and its institutions in the community at large ’ . |