Example sentences of "was [v-ing] do [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I saw him he was dying to do that go back |
| 2 | Particularly in the music-hall connections of his plays ( which later became their West End connections ) we can see that he was attempting to do this in his own creative work at the time . |
| 3 | So when we went through it , Kevin was going to do all of the careers officers in York but did n't need to do Mary because she 's part of the adult team and therefore Jane and Julie will have to sort her . |
| 4 | It said , save document , and it had a Y there , meaning it was going to do that if you pressed enter . |
| 5 | I was going to do that , Thérèse said : I thought of that . |
| 6 | CATHERINE I did n't know he was going to do that . |
| 7 | I was going to do that . |
| 8 | Yeah well we got that lasagne I was going to do that for you today but |
| 9 | I was going to do more |
| 10 | There was probably no better way , if one was going to do this thing properly , than to study a celebrated practitioner . |
| 11 | He walked me to the door with the kids in tow and said that we could all have a look inside , the kids as well , but even though I was shaking from head to toe , I said eventually , after we walked past the place at least four times , if I was going to do this I might as well do it on my own . |
| 12 | Interestingly enough , after I 'd announced that I was going to do this , my very first clients were all the star names who had asked about the sound I got when I was playing ! |
| 13 | Someone else was going to do this one and then they suddenly switched me on to it . ’ |
| 14 | But erm d' you know what I was going to do this morning ? |
| 15 | Today , she was going to do some heavy-duty cleaning — stamp her seal on the place , and make it her own . |
| 16 | Then she went on colouring very slowly and carefully , wondering all the time what she was going to do next . |
| 17 | He did n't know what he was going to do next . |
| 18 | One never knew what she was going to do next . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It was over as soon as it had happened , and as he turned in panic he could see that in reality she was exactly as before … except that she was looking at him now in a way that was more detached , stepping back as if to observe whatever he was going to do next . |
| 21 | He liked to stand about to see what the weather was going to do next . |
| 22 | She had to raise her face in order to see what he was going to do next . |
| 23 | I was coming to do all again sort of thing , you know , I mean they suddenly announced who |
| 24 | No , I was doing doing German nightschool . |
| 25 | ‘ Well , I was hoping to do some digging , ’ said the Prince , ‘ but it 's so hard that I ca n't get the spade in . |
| 26 | ‘ I was hoping to do some digging , ’ he told Harold Haywood , secretary of the Prince 's Trust one Friday evening . |
| 27 | I was trying to do that was a jigsaw puzzle |
| 28 | I know it sounds stupid , but I was trying to do all my sessions at the same speed I was used to at home . |
| 29 | The futility of what he was trying to do swept over him . |
| 30 | While she was trying to do this , he went to the apartment and beat her , wounding her in the head for which she was treated at hospital . |