Example sentences of "were [v-ing] [to-vb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | The House may be interested to know that , because we were seeking to look at the effect of NHS management reforms over the first six months , we did not draw attention to the fact that the number of people who have been waiting for more than one year on in-patient lists is 37 per cent . |
| 2 | I know it has been done , but when , For Ormskirk we wanted , we were looking to interview at the end of the M fifty eight |
| 3 | Was this one we were wanting to look at was n't it ? |
| 4 | Several times he swung round suddenly to see if people were turning to stare at him from behind . |
| 5 | All of the youths studied were in their last year of school , and all were going to leave at the minimum school leaving age ( Corrigan , 1979 ) . |
| 6 | They sort of could n't care less if you were going to leave at the end of the fourth year . |
| 7 | All their time was spent on the ones that were going to stay on , so ones that were going to leave at the end of the fourth year were never there and nobody sort of worried about them . ’ |
| 8 | We were told we were going to stop at Coventry on the way for lunch . |
| 9 | I told him our plan but he was none too eager until I told him we were going to play at funerals and that Frankie wanted him to imitate the preacher ; then he came along at once . |
| 10 | I think that it was during this visit that Peter Duval-Smith tacked on to us when we were going to dine at the Turkish harbour . |
| 11 | This is something we said we were going to discuss at a time in the future and I thought I 'd stick it on and see how much time we 'd got left . |
| 12 | Certainly whenever the researchers arrived to arrange their initial series of interviews , several potential interviewees met their request for an interview with queries as to whether we were going to look at ‘ how the incomers/Shetlanders are mixing with Shetlander/incomers ’ . |
| 13 | director : Well , you were going to look at only two hospitals . |
| 14 | You were going to look at ways of classifying the short stories you 've been looking at , when y , sort of , to look at similarities between short stories , like which ones deal with husband and wife relationships , which ones are about loneliness , I mean , use your paper , it 's it 's only there for scrap paper , you have n't got to produce something that 's gon na be pinned up on the wall . |
| 15 | Wh what I mean to say is I could n't in advance guess which field it was that you were going to want at any particular moment . |
| 16 | The Pontiac crouched for a whole foot lower than it did before , and General Motors shareholders were beginning to complain at annual meetings of bumping their heads or not being able to wear a hat in a Buick . |
| 17 | This one came just as eyelids were beginning to droop at Tynecastle on Saturday when Hearts and Hibs staged the latest in what has become a very long series of tedious confrontations . |
| 18 | Rumours were beginning to circulate at the time , concerning Robert Dudley and Her Sovereign Majesty , Elizabeth 1 . |
| 19 | Now all the larger ones were beginning to have at least some capacity of this kind . |
| 20 | Soldiers were beginning to look at the clock and fumble with equipment , apparently preparing for a guard change . |
| 21 | Throughout the 1970's , trains on the existing branch to Arkwright Colliery were having to reverse at Beighton to gain the GC , and the E.R. |
| 22 | Although BT said they were continuing to look at the results of the experiment , initial findings included the fact that not only was BT satisfied with productivity achieved but the staff themselves were only too sorry to see it end . |
| 23 | Five days later the platoons were preparing to strike at the nearest Japanese column when this swung clear of the counter-punch . |
| 24 | Erm I was n't , I did n't know what you were trying to get at when you were bringing up the miles per annum that he was doing , I can understand the flying side of it but driving in the car , yes you need to know that he 's doing a lot of miles and that there 's , you know , the there 's the potential danger and everything there but I did n't understand why you need his specific miles per annum . |
| 25 | His sight was coming back but he still seemed to have some uneven blindness , as if he were trying to look at the world through a ragged hole in a postage stamp . |
| 26 | No more was heard for a while about how the Masai were straining to get at the Kikuyu . |
| 27 | And I think it was , we were willing to go back to work and carry on discussions , albeit without earning any bonus because we were working to rule at the time , but it was what happened in er the quarry that really started the strike , when he laid the workforce off because they were helping us , or joining us in sympathetic action , you know there was a lockout up there , so I think that speeded up things considerably . |
| 28 | Security chiefs believe that terrorists on the outside were planning to fire at — and bomb — two rear lookout towers as part of the escape plan . |
| 29 | Of course , they only started by ‘ examining the implications ’ of growing at 4 per cent ; but presently they were planning to grow at 4 per cent , and soon they were promising to grow at 4 per cent . |