Example sentences of "what was [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shortly after Gould 's publication of this information , Darwin moved to London to be closer to what was proving to be a hotbed of scientific activity . |
| 2 | ‘ So we hurt his pride , ’ I said , hoping that clinched what was sounding to be a very scampy arguement . |
| 3 | Because the two subjects were approached separately what was going to be one piece became almost like two stories . |
| 4 | It was not enough to excel in the swimming and the running , which he knew he did ; what was going to be the good of getting good scores there and nullifying them with a duff riding round ? |
| 5 | He always liked to say what was going to be done , he was very domineering . |
| 6 | you know what was going to be where |
| 7 | it 's there it started and the rest of it was all a beaten track like what was going to . |
| 8 | " You 've no imagination , " Graham said the other day , as we stood at the window of what was going to be the baby 's room , and looked out at the muddy patch behind our house . |
| 9 | Well it seems to me that there was obviously enough information in that plan for you to be able to understand very very clearly what , what was wanted and what was going to be done . |
| 10 | of what was going to be favoured . |
| 11 | He sat in shamefaced silence while Paul Lexington explained to the company what was going to be done and was still silent , but attentive , while Wallas Ward , who had encountered the deaf-aid on a previous production , demonstrated the apparatus . |
| 12 | I also hoped that the speculation at work as to what was going to be done with George 's office would die down for a while . |
| 13 | How long did it take from the time you started what was going to be the quick , silent operation until you finished and got in ? |
| 14 | Before long , through unobtrusive questioning , he had discovered the root of the boy 's fear — simply that he did not know what was going to be done to him . |
| 15 | SHAMED Minister David Mellor got what was coming to him , his father-in-law declared last night . |
| 16 | Ever since Lavoisier , chemists had kept their science distinct from what was coming to be called ‘ physics ’ ; Thomas Thomson even declared about 1840 that it would not matter if chemists and natural philosophers had different theories of heat — each could use what worked better for them . |
| 17 | I had noticed it too , and I was all the more pleased with the prospect of doing something in what was coming to be my other sphere of interest , namely , literature and especially poetry . |
| 18 | She 'd decided at first that her brother deserved what was coming to him , but on reflection no one deserved to be thrown at Guido 's mercy . |
| 19 | Gabriel outlined what they knew , and what was coming to them . |
| 20 | I could n't afford anywhere to hide — what was happening to me ? |
| 21 | Without a knowledge of what was happening to Germanic diphthongs and vowels in the Dark Ages , however , even a clever pupil at Oxford in those days would have done badly . |
| 22 | No doubt there were many contributory external or psychological factors in what was happening to the way he perceived his own personality . |
| 23 | Shortly before he admitted what was happening to him , he re-read the Hippolytus of Euripides . |
| 24 | With this coherent team , in many ways bonded to the studio , Balcon set out to make films that mirrored what was happening to British society and fulfilled his aim of building up ‘ a native industry with its roots firmly planted in the soil of this country . ’ |
| 25 | The films give an increasingly wide berth to messy problems like sexuality and violence and , whereas Ealing 's films during and immediately after the war had interrogated what was happening to England , many or those made in the 1950s just do n't seem interested . |
| 26 | While the greening of the electorate was rapidly taken aboard and she was impressed by the fact that acid rain could damage international relations as surely as it did stonework and trees , what caught her imagination were the profound implications of what was happening to the chemistry of the deeper atmosphere . |
| 27 | Jane , the supreme example of self-control , did not know what was happening to her ! |
| 28 | This kind of teaching , it was argued , implicitly if not explicitly , was unacceptable because it would lead to an undermining of loyalty to the nation and government in minds too tender truly to comprehend the import of what was happening to them . |
| 29 | Now she would have to think , that was what was happening to her mind . |
| 30 | She remained conscious , but became increasingly disorientated , losing all awareness of where she was or what was happening to her . |