Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [adv] to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Behind him the heat was building up to a storm , the sky was thick with it already . |
| 2 | Only as the car was crunching softly to a halt in the gravel of the yard did Charlotte ask suddenly , but in a tone so subdued as to suggest that she had been contemplating the question for some time , and refrained from asking it only for fear of the answer : |
| 3 | It was happening only to a minority . |
| 4 | I was looking forward to a couple of hours of vigorous strolling in the company of what I assumed would be a garrulous , suitably eccentric English guide . |
| 5 | One of Jonathan 's neighbours in Hornsey , north London , said last night : ‘ He was looking forward to a big Christmas . |
| 6 | Impressed ‘ I was looking forward to a night out with the England Students squad on their training weekend at Bisham Abbey , but I wo n't say no to a bit of warm weather instead . ’ |
| 7 | He was looking forward to a reunion with Theo in Etten on Easter Sunday . |
| 8 | When this take-out was over , he was looking forward to a session in the hot-tub with Kandi , maybe a few snorts of cocoa , and some radical waves to ride out in the bay . |
| 9 | I , in my turn , was surprised to find how much I was looking forward to a day on my own , and mildly surprised at my mother 's willingness to leave me to it . |
| 10 | After several weeks of sleeping bags and ‘ pretty awful food ’ , Ms Stephens , who lost a stone and half during the expedition , was looking forward to a hearty meal and a good night 's sleep in a proper bed . |
| 11 | The black velvet dress she was wearing — the weather had changed at last — set off her pale skin and blonde hair , and she was looking forward to a new academic year . |
| 12 | Boniface was looking back to an age in which the privileges of the churches of the Anglo-Saxons had been untouched and inviolate , or so it was thought , and he saw this age as ending — as he tells Aethelbald — in the time of Ceolred , king of the Mercians , and Osred , king of the Northumbrians ( both of whose reigns ended in 716 ) , whom Boniface accuses of behaving as Aethelbald was now doing and as a consequence of which they both perished miserably . |
| 13 | Yes , to be fair Jenny came in er , on Friday to talk to me about it , but I just did n't have time , I was rushing off to a meeting so I 've |
| 14 | When I arrived at MGM , I felt like I was going back to an enormous boarding school again . |
| 15 | Minny : one day when I 'd been gushing about her dress when she was going out to a dance . |
| 16 | She was going out to a party , I got a bucket of water , threw it over her head ! |
| 17 | She was going out to a party . |
| 18 | At home a few days later , she was pointing excitedly to a top shelf . |
| 19 | We instantly felt the week was getting off to a good start , a feeling reinforced by waking up the following morning to new , slightly heavy snow . |
| 20 | ‘ He was moving close to an exchange with this man Zack . |
| 21 | I was attending elsewhere to an immigration problem which was based on a misunderstanding between the Home Office and the Foreign Office . |
| 22 | From a paper selling to dissident literati and the children of CND It was extending out to a new rock culture , and this accelerated the departure of the old American influences . |
| 23 | At the other side of the piano James Callaghan , then Prime Minister , was talking animatedly to a very distinguished-looking Admiral , while through it all the Queen and Prince Philip moved easily , chatting to their guests . |
| 24 | He was talking earnestly to a road-sweeper , who was at work in front of some English-style cottages with flower gardens . |
| 25 | I suspect Greenhill was referring specifically to a dearth in the cultural analysis of policing , while his use of the duality of ‘ sides ’ reveals another parallel binary to that of ‘ cops and robbers ’ , with the police and sociology arraigned against each other in yet another of the wars which the police wage against those who defile the sanctity of their definition of the concept of order . |
| 26 | When Richard had gone she sat watching the other guests ; Stella was chatting animatedly to a lean , grey-haired man . |
| 27 | We were getting on famously by half-way round the second circuit and Dod was digging in to a case of canned lager he 'd hidden under his stool , then Martin said would n't it be a good idea if we actually played something . |
| 28 | But Robert , on that evening , was dipping back to a famous essay by the great Cambridge economist . |