Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [conj] was [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd seen her shudder and was rising to his feet , his gaze resting momentarily on her breasts , making her self-consciously aware of the thrust of her nipples against the stretch fabric . |
| 2 | Parvin had measured her friend and was waiting to be measured . |
| 3 | The taxi ride from the airport to the little village where she was staying , only six kilometres from Nice , had been uncomfortable because the air-conditioning in the car had broken down three days before her arrival and was waiting to be repaired , and all in all her last vestiges of good humour had finally bitten the dust as she 'd stood in front of the house and realised that it had n't finished being built . |
| 4 | However , the waiter in the Piazza del Campo had taken Hugh 's camera off their table and was waving to them to sit closer . |
| 5 | He had recently suffered an injury to his knee and was preparing to be discharged . |
| 6 | And erm we spoke to the Chairman during the afternoon in his house and was talking to him and spoke to him about erm an accident he 'd had in the quarry . |