Example sentences of "was [adv prt] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the school children was Solowka boarding the van with the group , they naturally assumed he was off to join the convoy and teased him with shouts of ‘ Hippy . ’ |
| 2 | He drew it each Friday when he drew the men 's wages but he never handed the money over to Sarah until Saturday morning when she was off to do the shopping . ’ |
| 3 | After spending 10 days in hospital she was back to watch the next home game , but from a safe distance . |
| 4 | With his credibility already on a knife-edge in tomorrow 's vote on Maastricht , Whitehall suggested the Prime Minister was about to ease the brakes off public spending to speed Britain 's recovery from recession . |
| 5 | With his credibility already on a knife-edge in tomorrow 's vote on Maastricht , Whitehall suggested he was about to ease the brakes off public spending to speed Britain 's recovery from recession . |
| 6 | Dr. Gillespie was about to examine the dead man when P.C. Clifford got back . |
| 7 | I was about to remind the hon. Gentleman that the present Government have been in office for the past 13 years and therefore must accept a great deal of responsibility . |
| 8 | She ran to the end of the alley and was about to scale the ten-foot wire fence when the bleeper attached to her belt suddenly shrilled into life . |
| 9 | He checked himself as he was about to kick the chair out of the way then walked slowly to the bedroom and slumped onto the bed . |
| 10 | Merv was about to kick the ball out , Vinnie was there waving his hands like a lunatic … calling for the ball on his head ( for his first touch ) , merv obliged with an accurate kick … |
| 11 | Receiving no answer , and wondering if the woman had understood , she was about to repeat the question in Italian when Rosa opened one of several handsomely carved doors and ushered her into a large sitting-room . |
| 12 | Bridhe stood still , afraid to move , half-certain that the girl was about to harm the baby ; but when she saw Luch lay the little boy back in his cradle and tuck the coverlet round him , rock him for a moment , and then turn lovingly to pick up her own child again , the old lady felt tears come to her eyes . |
| 13 | But then , as they sat opposite each other in a crowded Darlington bar , Sue suddenly realised that she was about to lose the man she loved . |
| 14 | As she was about to leave the building she exchanged greetings with the portiera who handed her a letter which had arrived earlier the same day . |
| 15 | He was about to leave the foundry and continue his journey when an apprentice came rushing in with the loveliest girl he had seen in a long while , and his heart seemed to stop . |
| 16 | ‘ I had ordered sandwiches by phone two minutes earlier and was about to leave the building to pick them up . |
| 17 | Morton said the Princess 's astrologer , Penny Thornton of TODAY , revealed to him recently that she believed Diana was about to leave the Royal Family then . |
| 18 | She was thinking about a telephone call which she had answered just as she was about to leave the house . |
| 19 | Thornburgh , who was about to leave the government in order to contest a Senate vacancy , insisted that he was concerned only with the jurisdiction of federal judges , and not with the rights or wrongs of the abortion issue . |
| 20 | She was about to leave the house when the telephone rang . |
| 21 | Loretta finished dressing and was about to leave the room when she caught sight of the unmade bed . |
| 22 | As he was about to leave the little office he turned back . |
| 23 | Indeed , had you seen Ken white paper statement on television that night , you would see me sitting in the audience , smiling gently at the thought that I was about to leave the N H S. |
| 24 | Thinking Senor Gomorro was about to leave the country without returning to Suffolk they got in touch with colleagues in Oxfordshire . |
| 25 | But as the Portadown man was about to leave the jail he was told that his mother had died and ordered back to his cell . |
| 26 | He said Alan Steadman , 27 , came up behind Mr Foster as he was about to leave the town hall in Farnworth , Greater Manchester , and shot him in the back of the head with a stolen Colt .45 . |
| 27 | In the interest of minimizing opposition to his initiative , he allowed rumours to circulate in army circles to the effect that the speech had been aimed primarily at the UN which was about to debate the war . |
| 28 | In the distance , above the offices and blocks of flats , soared Windsor Castle , silver-grey in the sunshine which was about to dispel the morning mist . |
| 29 | She found first gear and was about to let the clutch out when suddenly he was at the door beside her . |
| 30 | She was about to instruct the device to run one of her extensive library of icebreakers when she noticed that the control panel had an alphabetic keyboard . |