Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [to-vb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked half determined , half afraid , as if I was a lion which he as assistant keeper was helping to escort from one zoo to another . |
| 2 | But after she had finished the first part of her lecture ; after slightly nodding her head to the generous applause ; after the lights had gone up again ; after Ashenden had said ( as every chairman since Creation had said ) how much everyone had enjoyed the talk and how grateful everyone was that not only had the distinguished speaker fascinated each and every one of them but also had agreed to answer any questions which he was absolutely sure everyone in the room was aching to put to such a distinguished expert in the field … it was only then that Dr Moule was able to survey the two intruders . |
| 3 | He had sold Chapeltoun House in Ayrshire , which he had built up over 10 years , and was looking to invest in another business . |
| 4 | When he was looking to expand with another concept , he looked at the labels in his shops for something with a distinctive yet commercial image and decided on this French casualwear label . |
| 5 | It was reassuring to hear of another life that had gone wrong , to be reminded that , however successful a person might seem , things were n't always easy . |
| 6 | The report says the 57-year-old pilot David Kay was attempting to land in low cloud and heavy rain . |
| 7 | The report says the 57-year-old pilot David Kay was attempting to land in low cloud and heavy rain . |
| 8 | She was going to die with sweet ecstasy and he was going to drown . |
| 9 | ‘ She 's sleeping now , but we thought she was going to die in that last attack . ’ |
| 10 | I was n't going to struggle on if I was going to die in six months ! |
| 11 | It seemed as if everyone was going to conform to this funeral except him . |
| 12 | He spent a lot of time swaggering about the place , flexing his muscles and telling everyone what he was going to do with those ‘ foolish little feller-me-lads ’ if they showed up . |
| 13 | And she still had n't solved the problem yet about what she was going to do about that accursed interview which Cara had entrusted her to carry out ! |
| 14 | Luiza , who was always very happy singing Czipra as she spent most of the evening sitting on a gypsy log , had been in superb voice and Therese — Busacher gloated — Therese had made one or two of the more discerning wonder what she was going to do in some of the other productions . |
| 15 | He says it was very exciting to work with her because he never knew what she was going to do from one take to another . |
| 16 | So I was going to rummage through these slides and we do n't have them , erm so I 'll have to , I 'll hand the , the , the book around in just one minute , erm the poems that I 'm going to read to you , very few of them are actually complete , most of them are sketches erm ideas and images of erm , that I 've got , I 've , I 've got them from the paintings . |
| 17 | Referring to his decision to resign from the Cabinet over the Westland affair in January 1986 , he says : ‘ I made a statement that day making it clear that I was going to continue in active politics in any role the Conservative Party wanted . |
| 18 | I know sometimes erm people when they got their benefit , would try and do shopping for two weeks , but even that was unrealistic of how long they were , what they were buying was going to last for two weeks . |
| 19 | ‘ We felt that if she was going to turn on those sort of tactics we were not going to be gentlemanly about it , and that she should just get on and do the job . ’ |
| 20 | I think I basically saw it as something that had to be done for the authority and not as something that was going to lead to any change . |
| 21 | What the coroner was going to say to all this he dreaded to think . |
| 22 | ‘ You knew what I was going to say throughout this entire conversation . ’ |
| 23 | With what she was going to leave to each of her relations written down in it so that when she got fed up with one of them she could just strike his name out ! ’ |
| 24 | Could I just raise one quick issue which I was going to mention under any other business but I 'd like to get it out of the way , and that is er the departure . |
| 25 | Arthur Smith sighed for political satire , and wondered what was going to happen to political comedy if we get a Labour government . |
| 26 | Heavens , what was going to happen to those two ? |
| 27 | After all , what was going to happen after that ? |
| 28 | He 'd only a vague notion of what was going to happen after this . |
| 29 | The first was that a Labour government was going to rely on economic growth to finance its increases in public expenditure , the second was that it would ban fox-hunting . |
| 30 | But he said he was going to ask for two . |