Example sentences of "was [v-ing] to [noun sg] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hello John erm firstly I would sympathise with those that erm have been complaining about television programmes , although I erm did n't watch a great deal of television yesterday , I was listening to Radio Oxford actually , but erm from erm Ceefax I noticed that the Neighbours was broadcast twice . |
| 2 | India did not want the textbooks that it was exporting to Southeast Asia and Africa to be pirated , and it wanted to ensure a market for its own emerging computer and pharmaceutical industries . |
| 3 | He was being shown round the Abbotsbury Swannery and was talking to swanherd John Fair near a swan and her cygnets when the swan took exception . |
| 4 | It appears McCashin was referring to Database Informatica . |
| 5 | He was marrying one of America 's richest heiresses , who was , Stair had drunkenly informed him , ‘ As ugly as a pug dog , ’ solely for her money , and was proposing to bed Madame Rachel herself as a preliminary to his marriage at St Margaret 's , Westminster , the following morning , the biggest society wedding of the year . |