Example sentences of "was [adv] [v-ing] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A TWO-YEAR-OLD boy in Cape Town , who was slowly suffocating to death , yesterday became the world 's first child to have an artificial windpipe implanted , during an operation by a British surgeon . |
| 2 | Now , at last , here in Hochhauser , looking her best , with her dear , dear friends from the past , she knew it was all going to work . |
| 3 | The exchange rate policy was highly damaging to manufacturing . |
| 4 | P.S. I assume Tertje was only referring to players that have *left* Leeds in his time as a supporter when naming Cuntona as the most important person to have filled a Leeds shirt . |
| 5 | Sadly , the beautiful old yacht Honey Bee was only going to Cruibh Haven but they keenly solicited around the basin on my behalf . |
| 6 | Well I was only going to sleep Jo , I was n't doing anything , I 'm just tired . |
| 7 | No we no she 'd got out the pool you see , she was I did n't recognize her , she said oh it looks like all the family 's here and I was only talking to Evelyn and , and I kept trying to place her and it was only when she said oh Rebecca was born a month after cos she 's died her hair a different colour , I did n't , just did n't recognize her at all . |
| 8 | Backing was apparently spreading to items that had once been fronted , but had not yet affected syllables closed by a velar consonant , like bag , back and bang . |
| 9 | Western observers commented that Gorbachev was apparently looking to religion to help provide the spiritual renewal which he saw as an essential part of perestroika . |
| 10 | I thought it was better going to drama school direct rather than via a university and if you 're going to act I think that 's the way . |
| 11 | We have lived in a wonderful variety of houses , including one normally occupied by a pit deputy in South Yorkshire ; a leaking gothic horror of a Victorian rectory in deepest Sussex that was literally falling to pieces while administrative matters blocked efforts to replace it and our present one near Lewes built in 1934 in the days of live-in maids , recently modernised but still half as big again as any built these days and with a double-size garden . |
| 12 | Such a note of finality was not , however , to be relied upon , and he was soon writing to Poole of racking doubts and of ‘ dim & huddled ’ feelings . |
| 13 | Needless to say , he was soon talking to God on the big white telephone but that did n't stop his band-mates from trying to drink seven pints of water in 30 minutes , followed by a dry Weetabix race upon which the Kinkies nearly choked to death , thus depriving the world of a hot new item . |
| 14 | Furthermore , whatever Kennedy 's disappointment over the lukewarm support from London , he was soon turning to Macmillan for advice and help on other questions . |
| 15 | Despite the critics , No Sex , Please was soon playing to capacity audiences , including a coach party from the Battersea pub whose darts team had kept Crawford busy during his period of unemployment . |
| 16 | Meanwhile , in the potion laboratory , Mildred was desperately trying to overbalance the jar by climbing up the side and leaning on it . |
| 17 | They warned that the " ill example " was already spreading to journeymen curriers , smiths , farriers , sail makers , coach makers , carpenters , bricklayers , joiners and " artificers of divers other arts and misteries " . |
| 18 | His colleague was already talking to Nigel Cramer , who had spent the night at Scotland Yard . |
| 19 | Nothing more exciting than that appeared on the horizon in his first six months in California , and he was already talking to June about going back to Mud and Neptune . |
| 20 | Mellowed by two bottles of beer , he was convinced that Hank was telling the truth ; his mind was already going to work considering how to double that forty thousand . |
| 21 | In English I was I was just listening to music . |
| 22 | Maybe because the teddy boy fashion was just beginning to edge back in ; it was around the time of Roxy Music 's Spaceman Ted look . |
| 23 | ‘ I was just going to bed when the police came . |
| 24 | Window firm director Norman Waller , 34 , was just going to bed when he saw youths damaging a Vauxhall Cavalier belong to neighbour Bob Fay , Newcastle Crown Court was told . |
| 25 | I was just going to bed , he said . |
| 26 | I was just going to bingo . |
| 27 | erm fucking indoor murder ball , the seat , cushion and stuff like that , its fucking well out of order piss up games oh that 's right I think we played in , I think we played , you know that British bull dog thing ? , we managed to clear all the fucking the nappy chair this and the chairs out the way , we were playing this British bull dog sort of thing and the only thing , the only , the only difference was when you got caught , got , everybody was fucking giving you a few thumps in the arm , for good measure like , and we played about four of this and every time this cocky little son of a bitch did n't get caught , he was always the last person , so we fucking said , we said , me and this other guy 's that are in our troop and that er , we said right we 'll get him , so when , when everybody sort of go for it right just after the one person in the middle , said fucking just get this guy and fucking pin him down and do something to him right , we did n't , I think we said we 'd just get him , yeah that 's a good idea , so he 's gone right go and his mate he 's fucking took off two steps and there 's eight of us fucking dived on top of him , what the fucking , he 's struggling , get off you cunt so we pinned him down and at first we was just going to de-bag him in front of the women , we 've taken his boots off and his trousers and that and shave his bollocks , yeah the whole fucking yeah , it was like an audience , all that they sort of gathered up the chairs and the tables fuck have his bollocks shaved . |
| 28 | Oh is that I was just talking to man . |
| 29 | Well I was just talking to Jean about that today , I mean I we 've got ta keep on doing it but , I think that |
| 30 | This is the great hall which is which is although it looks finished is actually by no means finished , I was just explaining to Mike we still need a go there , we still need a table there , we need all the windows to be done and we need three thousand pounds for that window . |