Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [adv] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I gave the old man a tip , and soon Mrs M. and I were speeding back to Ballina . |
| 2 | He took me out last Sunday and I said as we were driving over to Lavenham , I said an early would be much appreciated , I said I cooked the Sunday Lunch for my lodgers , but I have n't , in fact , had any myself he said you 've got to have a high tea , he said you must have a proper meal and he ordered up salad and a a ham salad and have this and have that and have the other , where as some of them like this chap Gerald who was erm sent me by one of the other agencies the first time we went out he took me to a meal and he obviously felt that quite enough , after that he used to come out to see me after he 'd had his meal meanness , hanging onto money ! |
| 3 | We were driving down to Zagora . |
| 4 | A few hours later the family were driving back to Windsor . |
| 5 | While Holmes was talking , we were walking home to Baker Street . |
| 6 | But on that morning my happiness was clouded by something he said to me as we were walking home to lunch : ‘ Your parents know about you , Jim — you know that , do n't you ? ’ |
| 7 | A whole crowd of us were walking back to Denmark Street — me and Rat Scabies and Brian James — two founders of The Damned — and Mick Jones and some others . |
| 8 | In those days all aircrew had to take a six monthly Basic Efficiency Examination to ensure they were keeping up to date with equipment and training procedures . |
| 9 | Those who were looking forward to Col. Savill 's repeat of his much acclaimed talk last December ‘ The Summer Timetables of 1939 ’ , which some of us missed due to last year 's influenza epidemic or because of other engagements will be pleased to hear that Col. Savill has also agreed to give this talk at a future date . |
| 10 | One day we were at the top of the highest hill on the island , and we were looking out to sea . |
| 11 | Her eyes were looking out to sea . |
| 12 | Between 1984 and 1988 , prices spiralled : Bunnys were fetching up to A$ 1,000,000 ; Glover 's ‘ Bath of Diana ’ fetched A$1,706,000 ( Sotheby 's Melbourne , April 1989 ) and Bond paid A$ 210,000 for Conrad Martens ' ‘ Woolloomooloo Farm ’ ( Sotheby 's Australia , 1986 ) . |
| 13 | And by the spring of 1988 , the column inches devoted to her in Britain 's tabloids were adding up to miles . |
| 14 | I told him we were heading off to France for the weekend . |
| 15 | They were heading back to Munich . |
| 16 | I think they were going somewhere to Ireland , I 'm not sure , but they had a load of of slates . |
| 17 | They made a short visit , I suspect that they were going on to M.J. 's [ Margaret Jourdain 's ] brother and like Dulcia [ in A House and Its Head ] expected to come by a good deal of refreshment in the course of their peregrinations . |
| 18 | Leigh , who drew a quarter 's salary in March 1565 , was another graduate of the University of Cambridge ; good boys from the School were going on to University . |
| 19 | A Canadian Forces official said all 130 passengers and crew were going on to Chicago , and no arrests had been made . |
| 20 | Maura said you were going up to Slane to look up old friends of the family ; is that right ? ’ |
| 21 | Late afternoon yesterday , my family and I were going up to Dunkil to visit the Bible class who About a dozen deer and one or two stags high on the hill . |
| 22 | ‘ Did you lot say you were going up to Appleby ? ’ asked Bedelia . |
| 23 | Up Newtown way , they were going up to Ruth . |
| 24 | Well , we were going up to , we were going up to Bristol so we put the car phone in the took the car phone with us , right ? |
| 25 | Only when we were about to board the helicopter were we told we were going instead to Rangkul . |
| 26 | if we were going through to Glasgow describers |
| 27 | Sharpe and Harper were going back to war . |
| 28 | You were going down to Jean and Ronald 's ? |
| 29 | Some little groups were going off to west and east , but most hung on with a sense that the next thing now demanded to be done . |
| 30 | Soon the calls were going out to groups all over the country . |