Example sentences of "[coord] [was/were] [adv] [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | One suspects that most computer scientists would like to believe that elegant data structures for organising all forms of information , together with powerful formalisms for manipulating and reasoning about it , have always pre-existed in some sense , and were just waiting to be discovered . |
| 2 | There was a newsflash at nine to say that the rescue party had reached the injured man and were now returning to the surface , and then nothing until almost midnight . |
| 3 | After he had given up the slave trade and was already hoping to be ordained , he was appointed tide-surveyor in the port of Liverpool with duties that included the inspection of incoming vessels . |
| 4 | She thought it was Swimmer of Lakes for a moment , but her horse had already returned to open land and was quietly grazing to the east . |
| 5 | He did not gel with Chapman , and was never going to be a direct replacement , so I could n't see where he was going to fit in long-term . |
| 6 | He had left the comparative safety of the platform of the step-ladder and was now clinging to what felt like a dangerously pliable branch of the tree . |
| 7 | In the past week she had been arrested , charged with smuggling heroin , released on bail , learned how to sail a forty-foot yacht , and was now listening to the man she had fallen deeply and irrevocably in love with talk about his colleague 's connection with the most vicious and widespread criminal organisation in the world . |
| 8 | Anwar had reclaimed Changez and was patiently explaining to him about the shop , the wholesaler and the financial position . |
| 9 | It had looked quite straightforward , thought Fenella , who was not very used to maps and was still adjusting to the vastness of this world after small Renascia . |