Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [pron] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All over the burrow , both the newcomers and those who were at home were accustoming themselves to each other in their own way and their own time ; getting to know what the strangers smelt like , how they moved , how they breathed , how they scratched , the feel of their rhythms and pulses . |
| 2 | You were lending them to this one here . |
| 3 | Checking their activities to see that they were confining themselves to local products , and were not turning to smuggling was very difficult until improvements in transport and in the structure of government meant that the vast majority of imports paid duty . |
| 4 | See this was after the nationalization and the policy of the railway executive at that time was to instead of two stations in one town , they were all they were reducing it to one station you see . |
| 5 | He was transporting her to another world , and she responded to him with uninhibited abandon . |
| 6 | For several days , maybe up to a week before that , whatever I was doing it was leading him to that decision . |
| 7 | and the doctors was selling them to rich Romanians and things like that so there 's such a lot of corruption in the country . |
| 8 | The pater was saying something to that effect only the other day . |
| 9 | He was aping them to some extent , but what was different was that touching quality . ’ |
| 10 | Alina had assumed that Belov was taking her to another of the buildings , but it seemed now that he was going to lead her out of the settlement altogether . |
| 11 | ‘ It seems as if I really do need to lie down , ’ she said faintly , and then he had swept her off the ground and was carrying her to one of the low , comfortable sofas in a private alcove where donors who were feeling faint could eat and drink in peace and quiet as they recovered . |