Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a mile to run the King 's colt Anmer was struggling to stay with the pace and started to drop back , and as the runners came down the hill Aboyeur was three lengths to the good , with Craganour , Day Comet , Shogun and Louvois best of the rest . |
| 2 | By 1937 this was helping to bring into the orbit of Left politics an increasing number of younger , better educated middle-class activists , who found themselves confronting a leadership which still belonged to the 1920s intellectually and was socially based on the older industrial areas and occupations . |
| 3 | Yet she was itching to move to the metropolis and bombarded her parents with subtle and not so subtle requests . |
| 4 | Bren was dying to go to the pub . |
| 5 | I even went , I was dying to go to the toilet so I thought oh I 'll go down to the big er and I had no toilet paper so I 'll go down to the big toilets and shower rooms . |
| 6 | ‘ And how did she know he was dying to go to the match ? ’ |
| 7 | Armenia was refusing to participate on the basis of fears that the new Union Treaty would enshrine neighbouring Azerbaijan 's right to the disputed Nagorny Karabakh region . |
| 8 | Christie was refusing to bask in the glory of his sensational Olympic 100 metres victory . |
| 9 | His agent said he was refusing to speak to the press after an incident in which he said he had been misquoted . |
| 10 | Heron shows in his article a deep sympathy with Braque 's work , which , incidentally , was a sort of painting he himself was seeking to practise at the time . |
| 11 | It was not until the 1930s that a more effective fascist organization , the British Union of Fascists ( BUF ) , was formed under the leadership of Oswald Mosley , at a time when Britain was attempting to deal with the unemployment of between 20 and 23 per cent . |
| 12 | Heath was attempting to break with the politics of accommodation , the ‘ triangular system ’ of government/union/employer consultation which had been growing up at least since the war . |
| 13 | For an awful moment I thought he was going to drive over the edge , but he stopped abruptly and we all got out . |
| 14 | I did n't see how I was going to live with the memory of him as it was ; I thought there must be something we could do , just something ; even one friendly lunch together might help . |
| 15 | He was going to wait in the corridor until Kopyion came out , and he would confront him . |
| 16 | The things she was going to need for the baby ! |
| 17 | In the end , they shipped us out because I was going to complain about the doctor . |
| 18 | Like Powdermaker ( 1967 ) , who recorded fieldnotes in Mississippi only when she was away from her field data , I found I only took notes at the time if I was willing to risk begin interrogated about what I was going to do with the information I was recording . |
| 19 | It 's possible I knew subconsciously all along what I was going to do with the gun . |
| 20 | Ross had , in fact , been quite right — and what she was going to do about the problem , she simply had no idea . |
| 21 | ‘ Some of the other customers stood up and demanded to know what the Chancellor was going to do about the economy , ’ says proprietor Moziruddin Ahmed , who was far too discreet to say whether Mr Lamont paid by Access . |
| 22 | Maurice was going to continue along the path but Wycliffe stopped him . |
| 23 | how long the employment was going to last in the absence of sickness ( a short-term contract is more likely to be frustrated than a job expected to last for the foreseeable future ) ; |
| 24 | She was going to swim in the lake , alone , because both Nick and her father had expressly forbidden it . |
| 25 | I was going to say about the mother of parliament . |
| 26 | I had already made up my mind what I was going to say by the time Frankie had rapped on the door . |
| 27 | When he did , his eyes narrowed and for a moment Kelly thought he was going to bound across the room and hit her . |
| 28 | Schaffer was going to move into the cloakroom and take a look through the window , but as he grabbed his binoculars from the office there was a polite knock on the thick outer door which resounded through the hollow space of the building . |
| 29 | Last April , Kathleen informed us all that she was going to retire in the autumn . |
| 30 | Standing back from the main road , surrounded by green grass , was the memorial to those men of the village and the surrounding hamlets who had died during the Great War , and behind the memorial was the primary school which I was going to join in the course of the next few days . |