Example sentences of "was [adv] [v-ing] to [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ I was mostly reporting to that woman leader , Sergia ’ |
| 2 | I thought he was kinda saying to that by the time she got round to saying it , it would n't mean as much . |
| 3 | It was apparently reassuring to this woman to have her aggression recognized so straightforwardly , because the couple was then able to have intercourse . |
| 4 | The initiative in theology in the closing years of Troeltsch 's life was already passing to those who held that it was not , and that the whole direction of thought which could be seen as culminating in him needed to be put into reverse . |
| 5 | ‘ I was just coming to that . |
| 6 | I was once speaking to some 2,000 people in the Tent Hall in Glasgow when I noticed my audience 's attention drifting — something I 'm not used to ! |
| 7 | While he was still talking to that woman , the dhāmi 's body slowly began to relax . |
| 8 | She was still feeling to some degree quite bemused as she walked along to her room . |
| 9 | I was busily listening to these subliminal hisses of disapproval when Alison Kraemer appeared at my elbow . |
| 10 | In his London Shadows Godwin even finds a function for the voyeurs who made it fashionable to tour the slums ‘ and wonder at the peculiarities of that strange land ’ , because ‘ it was partly owing to these visits that some improvements were carried into effect ’ . |
| 11 | And before long Mala was actually responding to some of my witticisms with that flashing smile which alters her from being pretty in to being staggeringly beautiful . |
| 12 | Before we erm before I came out today I was actually talking to some of the staff at Pembroke College and mindful of coming on her I thought I 'd just ask them what they thought |