Example sentences of "were [v-ing] to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her hands were sticking to the wheel . |
| 2 | ‘ That week orchestras around the world programmed the Adagietto as an elegy to Lenny 's memory , ’ Kaplan recalls , ‘ and while the precedent had been set by Bernstein himself [ he had conducted the movement at a memorial service for Koussevitzky and later at the funeral of US Senator Robert Kennedy ] , I was afraid that these ultra-slow , sad performances were helping to a trend into a false tradition . ’ |
| 3 | Investigations came hot on the heels of the new sound and realistic films and by the time of The Public Enemy and Scarface things were building to a crescendo . |
| 4 | At the same time , events across the North Sea were building to a crisis . |
| 5 | Then , noting that clouds were building to the west , he took his afternoon walk about the fashionable quarter of Brussels . |
| 6 | They each knew what they were bringing to the project . |
| 7 | Former President Daniel Ortega Saavedra said that supporters of the former right-wing dictator Gen. Anastasio Somoza were returning to the country and attacking the FSLN . |
| 8 | Lots of people were returning to the hut , but lots were going on to the Ober Gabelhorn . |
| 9 | A mini-moke waited for them , and soon they were driving to the beach house through acres of Thai beachland and greenery . |
| 10 | But we were driving to the ice-cap anyway and needed to reach the peaks by nightfall . |
| 11 | But when we talked directly with them , they refused to confirm this , they refused to put us in touch with the ship , they refused to confirm whether or not er the four activists who were walking to the test site had been apprehended , whether they 're safe , whether they 're being held separately , and so on . |
| 12 | They were walking to the boat . |
| 13 | Others will talk about themselves as ‘ he ’ or ‘ she ’ and describe what is taking place as though it were happening to a character in a television play . |
| 14 | When this was fed back to the operators , they were quickly able to see how their actions were contributing to the effluent and to make substantial reductions in the amount of ammonia leaving the plant . |
| 15 | The genesis of these provisions was the widespread belief that the operations of share-pushers were damaging to the integrity of the markets , and contrary to the public interest . |
| 16 | In effect , they were tending to the view that the very change in law brings about a change in the nature of society and human relationships within it . |
| 17 | Both Age Concern and the National Association of Citizen 's Advice Bureaux ( NACAB ) were writing to the Government to register disappointment . |
| 18 | All reports to this date were looking to the development of a large area to the north of Saville Street in North Shields town centre with a view to creating a new shopping centre which would serve a population of some 70 000 , although at various times more grandiose claims about potential catchment area were made . |
| 19 | If England were looking to the future then some of the players should have been selected years ago . |
| 20 | It was the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Medau College in Berlin in 1929 but not much was made of this , Dr Jochen Medau explained that they were looking to the future rather than the past . |
| 21 | Instead of dying by the age of about 40 , more were living to an age at which they could not continue to work and had to be supported . |
| 22 | Once high levels had been set , nobles who chose not to turn rents into cash were acting to the detriment of their own best interests . |
| 23 | The method of composition helps to explain the feel of the blank verse ; it should be read aloud , in a quiet meditative manner , as if we were listening to a man trying hard to clarify his own thoughts about a difficult topic and at the same lime explaining it to somebody else . |
| 24 | I do n't think they were listening to a word I was saying , they were just watching to see what Dawn was going to do next . |
| 25 | And he started thumping the sand and wailing at the seagulls — real Play for Today stuff — and an elderly couple who were listening to a radio behind a wind-break looked quite alarmed . |
| 26 | They were listening to a speech by the Prime Minister relayed from the United Services Club . |
| 27 | Advantage of powering the receiver all the time the vehicle is moving is that , even though the driver is not listening to the receiver , it is continuously being updated by RDS data , in the same way as if the driver were listening to the CD player . |
| 28 | Seb 's statement brought a chorus of derision from a couple of navvies who had entered the tent behind him and were listening to the conversation . |
| 29 | ‘ What colour was the wolf ? ’ asked the children , who were listening to the story with great interest . |
| 30 | His pal May and Atkins also deejayed on the show , playing an electric mix of house and European electronic music they 'd got into in high school when all the other kids were listening to the Gap Band and Prince . |