Example sentences of "was [v-ing] to a [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Blum , on the other hand , was looking to a more distant future when the French might have to withdraw entirely and in order to maintain the position of influence in the future he believed that the only firm foundation was a break with the past . |
| 2 | However , the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants warned that the immigration authorities ' ’ cold and brutal ’ treatment of asylum seekers was leading to a dangerously volatile situation . |
| 3 | He was pointing to a completely barren shore . |
| 4 | She said the word Chepén several times , as though she was speaking to a particularly stupid servant , Tolambo , too , the Hacienda Tolambo , and at the same time she made a circling motion with her hand , ending up with her finger pointed at the road ahead and the jagged peaks of the cordillera disembodied in a ragged mist hole . |
| 5 | The letter raises the suspicion that there was a threat to Aethelbald 's life in 746–7 and that Boniface was responding to a potentially dangerous situation in Mercia at that time when any personal idiosyncrasy of behaviour on the part of the king , which was unacceptable to Christian morality , would be magnified . |
| 6 | In trying to articulate what she felt so strongly , Clare had forgotten that she was talking to a very sick woman . |