Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [pers pn] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Never once , during our association , did they guess that I was using them to further my revenge against the Wolfkings . |
| 2 | Yet now he was praising her to the skies . |
| 3 | The Fat Controller was helping me to my feet . |
| 4 | It was a song Mr Malik sang , and she was singing it to what must , surely , be his words . |
| 5 | She told Cathy she would pass on the eggs but would like croissants and coffee , and presently I was bringing them to her as she sat with eyes demurely downwards , studiously ignoring my existence . |
| 6 | Eventually she noticed the changing note of the engine as they began to descend , and soon Marc was bringing them to a more sedate pace as he nursed the car over the drawbridge . |
| 7 | As he was bringing it to his ear , he remembered that he was in his own apartment , alone . |
| 8 | She frequently made use of Coptic craftsmen and one of them , a leather-worker , who had been repairing a handbag she was particularly fond of , was bringing it to her flat with his small son when he was attacked by a gang of youths . |
| 9 | I dimly understood that by holding out to me this realm of material essences , available by an act of will alone , The Fat Controller was condemning me to a cosmos of brand names , a metaphysic of motifs , a logic of logos , and an epistemology based on EPOS ( The Electronic Point of Sale method of inventory-keeping , which was just coming into use at this time among major retailers ) . |
| 10 | It was this nagging feeling that was driving me to Kano and had increased my daily average to 19.6 miles . |
| 11 | He said to me once , when he was driving me to school , that there was nothing left to believe in these days . |
| 12 | Helen was driving her to suicide , I could see that . |
| 13 | MUM-TO-BE Lynne Adams , 36 , gave birth to a girl on the M5 yesterday as husband Phil was driving her to hospital in Taunton , Somerset . |
| 14 | His constant invasion of her privacy was driving her to distraction . |
| 15 | The best man was driving them to the airport for their flight to Greece , and Ellie made sure she was right in the middle of the crowd as they all surged down the front path to wish them bon voyage . |
| 16 | It was a crisp Saturday morning in February , and the young man had picked her up from her flat and was driving them to a motor-racing track in the heart of Surrey . |
| 17 | No you we , you was relating it to power in this country to any country and saying |
| 18 | She finished eating , hoping she could elude Roman and get to Dana 's hotel without him , but as soon as she put her cup down he was urging her to her feet . |
| 19 | This would take some courage but something inside her was urging her to be honest . |
| 20 | As late as the summer of 1939 Sir Stafford Cripps , expelled from the Labour Party and hardly a natural Baldwin man , was urging him to be a brick in a wall of anti-appeasement national unity . |
| 21 | He was transporting her to another world , and she responded to him with uninhibited abandon . |
| 22 | He was selling Gary Druer from Travel Enterprise rooms at rock-bottom rates , and Gary was retailing them to the client for top whack , trading on our reputation . |
| 23 | Her eyes fell irresistibly to the firm , broad chest , the gleam of hard , taut muscle and then he was pulling her to him , kissing her mouth , her neck , the base of her throat , finding the clasp of her bra , discarding it , so that her breasts hung heavy and exposed , aching with longing and desire . |
| 24 | His ulcer had finally blown up and the doctor was rushing him to hospital . |
| 25 | At once he was contrite , and in seconds he was hurrying her to his car . |
| 26 | In his way — at times — he was directing us to his distance from the script , the movie , the work — ‘ Look ! |
| 27 | He was leading her to the edge of the dance-floor . |
| 28 | For several days , maybe up to a week before that , whatever I was doing it was leading him to that decision . |
| 29 | He said he was growing it to me . |
| 30 | He was forcing her to be careful of what she said ; setting up areas which were not to be talked about . |