Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [to-vb] [adv prt] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the street below the house with the dome people were pausing to look up at the arrows in the spike . |
| 2 | You see , so these people were going to move in at the weekend so had to put a stop to that cos they had no authority to move in there until the solicitors try and get this thing sorted out . |
| 3 | Patrick squirmed uncomfortably in the jumper and the trousers , which were at least two sizes too large for him — he felt as if they were going to fall down at any moment . |
| 4 | Like Miss Honey , she felt sure both ears were going to come off at any moment with all the weight that was on them . |
| 5 | It did n't matter that they were coming to stare down at her and Ember with the ugly blueness of ghoulish satisfaction on their heads . |
| 6 | I did n't know quite where or how or with whom but I was going to turn in at the Gendarmerie and take it from there . |
| 7 | ‘ The first time ’ , Hortensia said , ‘ I poured half a tin of Golden Syrup on to the seat of the chair the Trunchbull was going to sit on at prayers . |
| 8 | Of course , he had said he was going to help out at MacDowell 's Dad 's wallpaper shop . |
| 9 | There was no way I was going to walk out at the end of all that . |
| 10 | I was going to get up at 5.30 anyway so it did n't make all that much difference . |
| 11 | but er , I do n't know how he got out yesterday and I 've never , never know him parked down the road , not at all , anyway we got , I got home and erm , I said to Bev you know , right go and phone Lesley see if she 's in and then I did a bit of housework and then the phone rang , ooh , we was aiming to go out at one and that must of been ten to one , and it was Liz |
| 12 | He was across the road and halfway back down Fleet Street before it occurred to him that they had been staring at him like that because they thought he was trying to push in at the head of the queue . |