Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Corbett struggled to his feet and stared around the hall where the rest of the sleepers there were slowly rising to their feet , some nursing sore heads , others bawling for wine and food . |
| 2 | In other words , when the New Ireland Forum was being assured by Bishop Daly of the intention of the Roman catholic church in Ireland to support full civil and religious rights for Northern Ireland protestants , the bishops were effectively reserving to themselves , as a body of luminaries with a direct access to the inner structures of social reality , the right to declare what actually constituted a civil and religious liberty or right and they were doing so on the grounds of what they considered good for society . |
| 3 | Opposite the hotel was a refugee camp with children who were constantly trying to part unwary tourists from their money . |
| 4 | Or maybe they were merely sticking to the original arrangements for the meal . |
| 5 | But , they do seem to stress the way the changes in democratic practices were merely responding to the need to adapt the US model to Japanese values as though there were a collectively agreed set of values to call upon . |
| 6 | They admit arranging for 5,000 dollars to be handed over in envelopes but say they were merely responding to UEFA instructions to cover the officials ' expenses . |
| 7 | Last night a large majority approved a motion to that effect by Mikhail Gorbachev , who admitted more bluntly than ever before that reforms , far from strengthening the economy , were merely adding to its immediate difficulties . |
| 8 | On the contrary , it is an extremely common condition in post-war English primary education , and the agents of PNP policy in Leeds were merely conforming to the general tendency . |
| 9 | Some analysts were gloomily looking to the FT-SE 100 index to fall below the 2,200 level if the 15 per cent base rate is maintained for any length of time . |
| 10 | Maybe it was going to be like the Cultural Revolution in China and we were all going to be given the chance to team up with the aliens . |
| 11 | We were only according to me ! |
| 12 | Although his aunts had always been kind to him , Frankie tried his best not to like them because he knew they were only pretending to be nice . |
| 13 | I fear that the courts sorely missed assistance from academic lawyers specialising in this branch of the law ; but the law faculties in our universities were only beginning to be established towards the end of the 19th century . |
| 14 | Was it true ? she demanded of the silly girl : that she 'd run away from the boys when they were only trying to be friendly ? |
| 15 | I were only saying to a lady this morning about ee aye our Emma used to come to Leyland with a a wad of ten shilling notes new and we 'd go to er Southport would n't we ? |
| 16 | and he probably would n't mind that you were only going to be there for a year or two you know he 's getting |
| 17 | Now my Lord it 's at the beginning of October things start to go wrong in erm and as it is pleaded on the first of October er , the plaintiffs were told the , in correspondence from the bank , that the financial terms that the finances that had been approved in principal , were only going to be available if security was offered in respect of a number of properties . |
| 18 | Carlos was an easygoing young man , with so many girlfriends that Shelley knew they were only going to be friends , nothing more . |
| 19 | We were only going to be in 24 hours so we would n't bother having a meal we 'd have a slap up on the way out , ’ said Michael . |
| 20 | No , well we 've got the bulk , we were only going to be in Woking an hour . |
| 21 | They were perhaps trying to ‘ better themselves ’ . |
| 22 | And then another lunch was estimated at two hundred and eighty and forty-five came , and it kept swinging like that all week and they never knew what the hell was going to happen so they got really aggravated and then we had , you know , some of the kids , the Ban-the-Bezier group were wandering around with their face masks and their Type ninety bags over their heads and were saying crude things over a megaphone in Tom Quad , right and then these bowler hatted policemen , whoever they are , were patiently explaining to a number of girls who were sunbathing on the lawn that this was n't done quite that way here . |
| 23 | The Smiths as far as I was concerned were obviously going to be massive , what-they-now-are . |
| 24 | She nodded , wondering why on earth , since Liz was dead and they were obviously going to be sharing a room . |
| 25 | She supposed the tensions and upsets of the day were finally getting to her . |
| 26 | Me and the aliens were finally getting to him . |
| 27 | The CML disputed that lenders had in recent years relied on the availability of cover under the Compensation and Indemnity Funds to relax their own business practices , and claimed that lenders were largely responding to public demands for more streamlined conveyancing procedures . |
| 28 | These questions were utterly demoralising to the vassals of the late Emperor , and were to cause debate and confusion for many years to come . |
| 29 | Before , we were just listening to everybody else telling us to keep on playing and carry on doing this and that , but that was really just because they were afraid we were going to be a flash in the pan . |
| 30 | The conditions for the crossing were not much worse than for the criminals who were just beginning to be shipped across from England in the 1670s , and the death rates were not much higher . |