Example sentences of "and [was/were] [v-ing] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seb 's statement brought a chorus of derision from a couple of navvies who had entered the tent behind him and were listening to the conversation . |
| 2 | : A bunch of us whose ages ranged from 151/2 to 17 were in our billet waiting to go to on parade and were listening to the billet radio system . |
| 3 | To commit our cause to God , and especially to pray for those who had been trapped in France and were hurrying to the beaches of Dunkirk . |
| 4 | For your information , the ‘ scum ’ whom you 'd like to ban from Levellers gigs to let the ‘ genuine ’ fans in are more than likely friends of the band and were going to the gigs before you . |
| 5 | For your information , the ‘ scum ’ whom you 'd like to ban from Levellers gigs to let the ‘ genuine ’ fans in are more than likely friends of the band and were going to the gigs before you . |
| 6 | My parents , who had come back to Hastings from their exile in Somerset to fish and clean , as they always did , had braved all and were coming to the wedding . |
| 7 | He could not see , nor think what that link might have been , beyond what was an evident fact to him : that they were mythagos created by Tallis , and were responding to the mind which had engendered them . |
| 8 | The treasurer , in sharp , clipped tones , was listing the committee 's various expenditures and was bringing to the attention of the members the fact that there was only twenty dollars in hand . |
| 9 | He had picked up the Bren gun and was gazing to the left of the wood and pointing the gun in the same direction . |
| 10 | By this time the youngest member of the family , an eight-year-old boy , had got out of bed and was clinging to the bannisters at the bottom of the stairs . |
| 11 | Discussions on workers ' control and the general strike to stop war also showed that an important section of the trade unions had reacted against gradualism , at least in words , and was returning to the syndicalist notions fashionable some ten years before . |
| 12 | He stood up , stony-faced , and was turning to the door when James Menzies held up his hand and said , ‘ Wait — wait — that is only half the business . ’ |
| 13 | Suddenly fearful she 'd attack him , he turned without picking the lamp up , only to find that the woman had already claimed her clothes from the snarl of sheets and was retreating to the bedroom door . |
| 14 | Yes , an and what really upset the erm the , the members of the scheme and the pensioners was the fact that the money was going to actually erm fund the redundancy per programme er for the business and was going to the benefit of the employees and none of it was going to the actual pensioners . |
| 15 | The last time 29 year-old Simon Wadland 's family heard from him was a week ago , when he called to say he 'd been in an accident outside a Banbury Bank and was going to the local hospital . |