Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Edward came to Corfe from a hunt , and while his attendants were seeing to the dogs she allured him to her with female blandishment and made him lean forward . ’ |
| 2 | Her hands were sticking to the wheel . |
| 3 | Then , noting that clouds were building to the west , he took his afternoon walk about the fashionable quarter of Brussels . |
| 4 | It was as if the energies within my brain and body were reacting to the energies within the crypt and a flowing , pulsing feeling of warmth came over me , somewhat similar to my feeling after a session of Reichian therapy . |
| 5 | It also shows that , when Russian enterprises reacted to the reforms by jacking up prices and withholding output , they were not doing so because they could not adapt to the bewildering change around them ; they were reacting to the incentives they faced , which said that goods were stores of value while money was not . |
| 6 | They each knew what they were bringing to the project . |
| 7 | Lots of people were returning to the hut , but lots were going on to the Ober Gabelhorn . |
| 8 | It was Diane who proposed that they should go over and take a look at the labs where Jenner had worked and Reynolds agreed , more than a little relieved that they were returning to the main subject ; he was made uncomfortable by Diane 's self revelation and the way in which it had begun to erode his easy preconceptions of her and her ‘ type ’ . |
| 9 | Former President Daniel Ortega Saavedra said that supporters of the former right-wing dictator Gen. Anastasio Somoza were returning to the country and attacking the FSLN . |
| 10 | There had always been a radical element in the local Labour parties and this was now augmented by former members of the ILP who were returning to the Labour Party in large numbers . |
| 11 | But we were driving to the ice-cap anyway and needed to reach the peaks by nightfall . |
| 12 | ‘ I saw him look at it in the car when we were driving to the Lubianka . |
| 13 | A mini-moke waited for them , and soon they were driving to the beach house through acres of Thai beachland and greenery . |
| 14 | As we were walking to the next hole I tried to think of the right things to say to him , so I said , ‘ Greg , do me a favour . |
| 15 | They were walking to the boat . |
| 16 | Just before the clock struck five the next morning , Gabriel and Coggan were walking to the hayfields past their mistress 's house , when they saw a surprising sight . |
| 17 | But when we talked directly with them , they refused to confirm this , they refused to put us in touch with the ship , they refused to confirm whether or not er the four activists who were walking to the test site had been apprehended , whether they 're safe , whether they 're being held separately , and so on . |
| 18 | The federal government decided that exports of vegetables were contributing to the soaring inflation rate , and banned them . |
| 19 | The foregoing is fully applicable to the motivation of all those individuals who influenced the events which were creating the religious climate and who , unbeknown to themselves were contributing to the Created God . |
| 20 | When this was fed back to the operators , they were quickly able to see how their actions were contributing to the effluent and to make substantial reductions in the amount of ammonia leaving the plant . |
| 21 | Dietary concentrations of other minerals and of vitamins were according to the AIN-76 recommendations . |
| 22 | The genesis of these provisions was the widespread belief that the operations of share-pushers were damaging to the integrity of the markets , and contrary to the public interest . |
| 23 | In effect , they were tending to the view that the very change in law brings about a change in the nature of society and human relationships within it . |
| 24 | Ambulance crews were tending to the injured . |
| 25 | Mr Rankin said villagers were writing to the environmental health authority to try and sort the matter out , ‘ At evenings and weekends , the continuous drumming of the bikes sounds like a chainsaw . ’ |
| 26 | Both Age Concern and the National Association of Citizen 's Advice Bureaux ( NACAB ) were writing to the Government to register disappointment . |
| 27 | Other countries were looking to the United States to take a firm leadership role , said one official . |
| 28 | More and more people were looking to the drains , rather than to providence . |
| 29 | All reports to this date were looking to the development of a large area to the north of Saville Street in North Shields town centre with a view to creating a new shopping centre which would serve a population of some 70 000 , although at various times more grandiose claims about potential catchment area were made . |
| 30 | They were looking to the old Roman virtues for the explanation of Roman success , but the Romans had acquired power by divesting themselves of their old Roman habits . |