Example sentences of "[adv] he was [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But before Ronni could wonder further , suddenly he was rising to his feet . |
| 2 | Harvey said ‘ Hello ’ four times , then suddenly he was talking to a bald-headed man who seemed to have four overcoats on at once . |
| 3 | Apparently he was talking to someone called Helen , and used the words , ‘ You 've got to say I was with you ’ . ' |
| 4 | I hope it will la apparently he was talking to Kathy , no , yeah , I always get , I always think Kathy and Jenny should be the other way round no |
| 5 | Perhaps he was trying to be hospitable — not an easy task for him when she was the guest ! |
| 6 | Perhaps he was going to Porteneil to get drunk in the Rock Hotel , or perhaps he was off to Inverness , where he often goes on business he prefers to keep mysterious , but I suspected that it was really something to do with Eric . |
| 7 | he 's either up the stairs well he came down one night right enough he was talking to his girl on the phone , she phones him through the week and er he was a bit depressed because he he had n't the money , he 's , he 's on the and he has n't really the money to give in for housekeeping plus try and get driving lessons and his daddy wo n't let him |
| 8 | It 's within the congregation , Paulo was writing , not to those outside but to those dedicated baptized brothers and sisters in the trees , said you know the season that it is already the hour for you to awake so he was speaking to spiritual people , spiritually minded people and yet here he is telling them to be awake , awake from sleep or slumbers , for now our salvation is nearer than at the time when we became the leavers , and that 's true with us all if you came into the truth yesterday , the time that much nearer now is n't it ? |
| 9 | Soon he was responding to her love-play , softly moaning , his arms tightening about her and his nakedness fusing harder with hers . |
| 10 | Because Lee went to Garth House his Mum took objection to him , and anyway he was moving to Thirkett , was n't he ? |
| 11 | Mr McFall said yesterday he was writing to the health board demanding a thorough inquiry . |
| 12 | The more de Gaulle insisted that his was not a party and that he was appealing to all patriotic men and women of every class , the more he was conforming to stereotypes of right-wing authoritarianism . |
| 13 | ‘ That bitch … ’ said Surkov softly , and I knew at once he was referring to Imogen . |
| 14 | Three days later he was confiding to his diary that the night bombardment made him ‘ think of that nightmare room of Edgar Allan Poe , in which the walls closed in one after the other . ’ |
| 15 | Moments later he was chatting to the C.P.R. Divisional Superintendent , Tom Warner , thanking him for his obviously favourable comments on the broadcast , and he went on , ‘ But seriously , Tom , I want a favour . |
| 16 | A minute or two later he was speaking to a suave gentleman anxious to steer a safe course between Scylla and Charybdis . |
| 17 | A few minutes later he was talking to Pooley . |
| 18 | In October 1869 he wrote to Rohde : a whole lot of aesthetic problems and answers have been bubbling inside me for the last few years … of course , Wagner is in a very pregnant sense beneficial , especially as , an example incomprehensible on the basis of traditional aesthetics … ; and a few months later he was proclaiming to another correspondent a " marvellously new and changed … |
| 19 | An hour later he was standing to attention in a depleted square of those who had survived the battle . |
| 20 | He found now he was speaking to all the eagles in the Cages and that they were listening to him . |
| 21 | And now he was going to that witch Domino . |
| 22 | It was all a roundabout way of saying that Sien was synonymous with sorrow , and perhaps as well he was referring to the sorrowing mother of their childhood . |
| 23 | Well he was seeming to six when he died . |
| 24 | Then he was clinging to them , even as he felt them tear loose from the rock . |
| 25 | Then he was rising to his feet , beckoning to the waitress and heading towards the main part of the restaurant . |
| 26 | And if he could not find the Dwarves , then he was going to Sgurr Dearg and home . |
| 27 | He had tricked her , deliberately let her think that they would be going back to the hotel , but if he thought she was going to meekly go along with his conniving then he was going to be sadly disappointed . |
| 28 | Well , if he was then he was going to be sadly disappointed ! |
| 29 | Maybe he was beginning to be sick , but mainly I think he was distressed . |
| 30 | They understand from Keith 's face that actually it was not that great , actually he was lying to Potter . |