Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [v-ing] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was listening to music and he . |
| 2 | The other side of that is that I was listening to Medicine Now on Radio Four , and they 've got a device where they you actually have er an earpiece put into your ear and it clicks continuously . |
| 3 | I was listening to Radio 5 and Leeds had had 3 good chances after 5 mins . |
| 4 | I was listening to radio 5 who had reports . |
| 5 | Men , men , mentioned here by our friend , that Leicestershire has got no business to discuss about fox hunting , we are not elusive , there are other county councils who have banned fox hunting on their land , so do not make this as a sacrosanct and or something that Leicestershire are doing , they are not doing first , there are so many other county councils in this country and for your information , I was listening to radio four few days ago , even in Pakistan , a third world country , is banning hunting in their country , we should be ashamed of ourselves here to discuss , I agree with Councillor when the discussion start and he said move for the ward , because the logical thing was to move for the wards rather than discuss , if we all believe that this is horrible , acrimonious and abhorrent in today 's day and age , as the slavery was abhorred two hundred years ago . |
| 6 | Hello John erm firstly I would sympathise with those that erm have been complaining about television programmes , although I erm did n't watch a great deal of television yesterday , I was listening to Radio Oxford actually , but erm from erm Ceefax I noticed that the Neighbours was broadcast twice . |
| 7 | ‘ I was delivering to industry and kept a constant look-out for a suitable material . |
| 8 | But when you loved it , did n't you I mean I know I did when I was a young person first drinking erm I definitely had the feeling that if I was drinking to excess I was n't doing the right thing , whereas the impression we give in Oxford that drinking to the excess is perfectly acceptable behaviour . |
| 9 | I was beginning to Cleaver for another drink in the Railway Hotel before returning home . |
| 10 | I 've thought about it , ’ said Nikos , ‘ but I was keeping to surveillance until I was told otherwise . ’ |
| 11 | I always wore clogs , and if an iron came off while I was cycling to town I could take it to him , go off somewhere like the pictures , and it would be ready and waiting for me straight afterwards . |
| 12 | Now I was talking to Dad I wanted to tell him about how Mum and I had found Granny and what wicked things Mum had done , but I knew Mum 's eyes were on me so I thought better of it . |
| 13 | Oh you have n't , I was talking to daddy actually . |
| 14 | I was talking to daddy . |
| 15 | As I was applying to art school I needed a reference so I told Vivienne that I thought I 'd ask Malcolm , since he was my employer . |
| 16 | I was walking to school , right cos saw this in the shop |
| 17 | You brought me a hare to eat when I was starving to death . ’ |
| 18 | You have already second , but I was going to second it , and say how very pleased I am to have the opportunity to second it . |
| 19 | I was going to bingo and I said and I said to her well we 'll go and pick Sue 's mother up and we 'll pick you up and all and she went the Empire , I went the Corn Exchange but that 's beside the point . |
| 20 | I said I was going to tech on a night for my maths A level and I was also taking General and English . |
| 21 | Needless to say , since the notion that you did not ask anyone over-probing questions would have been regarded by him as an absurdity , he wanted to know what I was going to back . |
| 22 | ( CBHP ) I was going to work for ? |
| 23 | ‘ I was going to work this afternoon . ’ |
| 24 | Just as I was going to work . |
| 25 | I wish I was going to work . |
| 26 | No I was a , it was when I was going to work , in was in the afternoon like . |
| 27 | Even when I was going to school I was doing gigs , and when I finished with school I was doing gigs , and when I finished with school I realised that I was able to get by with just the gigs . |
| 28 | Well when i was a wee boy the loch had never looked it before the barriers was built When I was going to school Well I was born I started a co school at nineteen eighteen . |
| 29 | When I was going to school . |
| 30 | I started it basically on my own initiative and I said that for six months I would use it on people that I was going to sentence just to maintain a one judge control over the project and see how it was going . |