Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [to-vb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The House may be interested to know that , because we were seeking to look at the effect of NHS management reforms over the first six months , we did not draw attention to the fact that the number of people who have been waiting for more than one year on in-patient lists is 37 per cent . |
| 2 | I know it has been done , but when , For Ormskirk we wanted , we were looking to interview at the end of the M fifty eight |
| 3 | All of the youths studied were in their last year of school , and all were going to leave at the minimum school leaving age ( Corrigan , 1979 ) . |
| 4 | They sort of could n't care less if you were going to leave at the end of the fourth year . |
| 5 | All their time was spent on the ones that were going to stay on , so ones that were going to leave at the end of the fourth year were never there and nobody sort of worried about them . ’ |
| 6 | I think that it was during this visit that Peter Duval-Smith tacked on to us when we were going to dine at the Turkish harbour . |
| 7 | Rumours were beginning to circulate at the time , concerning Robert Dudley and Her Sovereign Majesty , Elizabeth 1 . |
| 8 | Soldiers were beginning to look at the clock and fumble with equipment , apparently preparing for a guard change . |
| 9 | Although BT said they were continuing to look at the results of the experiment , initial findings included the fact that not only was BT satisfied with productivity achieved but the staff themselves were only too sorry to see it end . |
| 10 | Five days later the platoons were preparing to strike at the nearest Japanese column when this swung clear of the counter-punch . |
| 11 | His sight was coming back but he still seemed to have some uneven blindness , as if he were trying to look at the world through a ragged hole in a postage stamp . |
| 12 | No more was heard for a while about how the Masai were straining to get at the Kikuyu . |
| 13 | And I think it was , we were willing to go back to work and carry on discussions , albeit without earning any bonus because we were working to rule at the time , but it was what happened in er the quarry that really started the strike , when he laid the workforce off because they were helping us , or joining us in sympathetic action , you know there was a lockout up there , so I think that speeded up things considerably . |
| 14 | Heron shows in his article a deep sympathy with Braque 's work , which , incidentally , was a sort of painting he himself was seeking to practise at the time . |
| 15 | She was pretending to look at the people who were passing in the street , but Burun was not deceived . |
| 16 | ‘ She made it clear no decision had been taken and she was going to look at the Tomlinson Report with a totally objective view , ’ he said . |
| 17 | Oh that 's what I was going to look at the brushes |
| 18 | Nobody knew who was going to win at the end . |
| 19 | You knew I was expecting to stay at the hotel , and that was the only reason I agreed to come with you . |
| 20 | And when they hit me with the INSET thing it was the summer term , the first half of the summer term and I was beginning to fray at the edges , as far as I 'd just got things going , and it was just like something else on top of a lot of pressure already . |
| 21 | Gp Capt R C Hockey sent Air Mail the excellent photograph of what happened at Kinloss on a dark night in October 1943 when an Anson was approaching to land at the same time — and on the same bit of field — as a Whitley was just starting its take-off run . |
| 22 | Caspar was trying to get at the dead magpie that Philip was still holding . |
| 23 | A bloke who was trying to get at the tomato purée gave him rather an odd look , but Quigley was not bothered . |