Example sentences of "who were [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he started thumping the sand and wailing at the seagulls — real Play for Today stuff — and an elderly couple who were listening to a radio behind a wind-break looked quite alarmed . |
| 2 | ‘ What colour was the wolf ? ’ asked the children , who were listening to the story with great interest . |
| 3 | Matthew waved his arm at his audience , who were listening to this exchange with come interest . |
| 4 | If the pressure was on McSharry from the accountants concerned about ever increasing costs , it was also coming from the environmentalists who were objecting to taxpayers funding intensive farming which they believed was damaging the environment . |
| 5 | The aisles were full of people who were coming to the front . |
| 6 | Of the three ladies who were attending to her , two were in middle age and the third in her early thirties . |
| 7 | ‘ In this way boys and girls would get ample opportunity of guidance as to their choice of careers , and those who were going to be apprenticed or learn skilled trades might have all their arrangements made while still at school . ’ |
| 8 | There was a report in the paper about the coronation and the unveiling of the memorial to Queen Victoria two days before the coronation , and about the many crowned heads of Europe who were going to be present , including the German Emperor , the late Queen 's grandson . |
| 9 | After counting the remaining rupees carefully , I spent the last free day in the company of a couple of young Seychellois who were going to an offshore reef to lift their fish-traps . |
| 10 | Lord Suffolk served his purpose as a liaison between the French scientists and government officials who were going to Britain to carry on the war , and he was good at smoothing difficulties with pantechnicons of furniture and the occasional arrival of a weeping mistress , or in one case two . |
| 11 | Well unfortunately we were scheduled to have a meeting erm something like ten days ago and then two or three of the key people had to drop out so I cancelled the meeting because obviously we want the people there who were going to actually get the thing up and running so that we can formulate a first public meeting and I would like erm , you know , now , to establish a working party but again a number of the people who one would expect to be on it are not here and it 's slightly awkward . |
| 12 | To that end , again we will probably be stronger in that area but t to that end we formed a group of partners who were going to specifically target er that that market place er we drew from the triple A practice and tax practice and M C S. Looking at the products and the reviews to get into that first those those clients . |
| 13 | These careful excavations were followed up by archaeologists , who were ceasing to be treasure-hunters , just as geologists had ceased to be fossil-hunters ; both were now concerned with dating and provenance , and the reconstruction of past epochs . |
| 14 | After having woken the girl , Duncan led her into the palace as they followed the policeman , past the small queue of tourists and other visitors who were waiting to sightsee . |
| 15 | There had always been a radical element in the local Labour parties and this was now augmented by former members of the ILP who were returning to the Labour Party in large numbers . |
| 16 | The Scouts had rushed skiddingly from one pod to the next , annihilating languid swanky drugsters , warbling liquorites , squirming orgiasts who were responding to the war in their own indulgent style , if they even heeded it at all . |
| 17 | But when we talked directly with them , they refused to confirm this , they refused to put us in touch with the ship , they refused to confirm whether or not er the four activists who were walking to the test site had been apprehended , whether they 're safe , whether they 're being held separately , and so on . |
| 18 | Earthtrust removed the dead bodies and organised regular supplies of fish for the surviving dolphins in Shakang Harbour who were starving to death . |