Example sentences of "[coord] was [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | And somewhere inside it , was the Presley hoard , or was going to be real shortly . |
| 2 | he said that he wa he did n't know , he was either coming now or was going to Tramps . |
| 3 | ’ But Aunt Louise had closed her eyes and was pretending to be asleep . |
| 4 | He 'd seen her shudder and was rising to his feet , his gaze resting momentarily on her breasts , making her self-consciously aware of the thrust of her nipples against the stretch fabric . |
| 5 | Loretta had wandered back into the drawing-room , and was chatting to a classics don who taught at the same college as Bridget . |
| 6 | At Notting Hill Gate , as they were leaving the car , they found their way impeded by a uniformed official of London Transport Underground that the woman who said the holidays were too long had got hold of and was complaining to . |
| 7 | Later in the race McCallen fell off at Church Corner , Portrush , but was unhurt and was hoping to be able to take part in the opening Superbike race which followed the 250cc . |
| 8 | Madeleine replied with the news that she had been promoted and was moving to a town not twenty miles away . |
| 9 | He had his fingers to his lips and was pointing to his right . |
| 10 | He 'd opened the smashed engine compartment , and was pointing to where the battery was n't . |
| 11 | On Aug. 20 , King Hassan of Morocco called on the UN to delay the referendum by four months ; Morocco was disputing the UN 's " consolidated list " of approximately 74,000 Sahrawis deemed entitled to vote , and was objecting to Manz 's rejection of a Moroccan list of some 120,000 people it claimed were refugees from the territory entitled to vote . |
| 12 | The treasurer , in sharp , clipped tones , was listing the committee 's various expenditures and was bringing to the attention of the members the fact that there was only twenty dollars in hand . |
| 13 | The photographer had obviously been studying portraits of Betty Grable and other film stars and was trying to be very artistic , with much back lighting and fluffing out of hair , and I must admit that my hair ( touching my shoulders , naturally ) , did look nice . |
| 14 | It appeared that Lord Coleworthy had heard all about the trouble from Fairfax and was trying to be a peacemaker . |
| 15 | She had her suitcase open on the bed and was muttering to herself as she took clothes out of drawers and threw them in . |
| 16 | However , the waiter in the Piazza del Campo had taken Hugh 's camera off their table and was waving to them to sit closer . |
| 17 | He had picked up the Bren gun and was gazing to the left of the wood and pointing the gun in the same direction . |
| 18 | He felt no competitiveness with other writers and was encouraging to people younger than himself . |
| 19 | Erm , if you were diagnosed as having cancer , and was intending to be dead in nine months , what would your reaction be to that ? |
| 20 | By this time the youngest member of the family , an eight-year-old boy , had got out of bed and was clinging to the bannisters at the bottom of the stairs . |
| 21 | He became an ever-present volunteer , had passed as a fireman and was training to be a driver . |
| 22 | Not far behind them sat David Thomas and his wife , a jeweller who had looked after the Spencer family for years and sold Diana several pieces : but he was still ‘ just a humble jeweller ’ , and was expecting to be tucked away behind a pillar at the back . |
| 23 | Belinda had lost two stone , given up her married man and was speaking to Ellen again . |
| 24 | A second policeman had cut the civilian loose and was tending to him . |
| 25 | Rachel 's opportunity to speak to her parents came on Saturday morning after the community nurse had arrived and was tending to Jennifer in her room and she and her parents were sitting at the kitchen table . |
| 26 | Now she had pulled up outside the village shop and was yelling to them to bring her out an ice-cream . |
| 27 | But Morse was consulting the Paddington-Oxford timetable which Lewis had picked up for him from Reception , and was nodding to himself as he noted that the 13.30 arrived at Oxford 14.57 , just as Kemp had claimed . |
| 28 | By his next letter he had recovered his good humour and was asking to be forgiven . |
| 29 | He looked to be in his early-to-mid-fifties , and was running to fat , and when he took off his topee it was to wipe the sweat from a pink , bald head . |
| 30 | She had a variety of words , and was adding to them , for the structure of a Shakespearean plot or metaphor . |