Example sentences of "was [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I thought you was goin' to be a famous pilot this mornin' , ’ retorted George . |
| 2 | As Chesterton was preaching to the converted there was no chance of this , so he avoided prosecution . |
| 3 | Mike was there every day , being nice to me and telling me not to worry about anything , he 'd found this flat and his mother was seeing to furnishing it and they were making arrangements for the wedding . |
| 4 | You said your partner was seeing to the tourist board and the airlines here in Palma — ’ |
| 5 | Originally titled ‘ The Southern Harmony And Musical Companion Featuring A Choice Collection Of Tomes , Songs , Odes And Anthems From The Most Eminent Authors In The United States ’ , this is the record that was struggling to be heard inside the more studio-constricted ‘ Money Maker ’ . |
| 6 | Cobalt was struggling to his feet , muttering . |
| 7 | She was knitting to cars as one single motif on her Silver Reed but had put the point cams on incorrectly and had one car in the middle and two half cars either side . |
| 8 | His colour sense was demanding to be heard and utilised . |
| 9 | Basil was quite uncompromising about high standards in Art and required a lot from his teachers , but was encouraging to beginners . |
| 10 | This reference was encouraging to many of the Shah 's Iranian opponents who interpreted it as the presidents support for their struggle against the Shah . |
| 11 | He felt no competitiveness with other writers and was encouraging to people younger than himself . |
| 12 | She dropped the bowl that she was using to the floor . |
| 13 | Once the dealer gave his number under these circumstances , he was submitting to the client 's own terms , letting him off the hook . |
| 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 | In one , for example , a casual labourer and his wife in their sixties lived with a woman of 79 , her son of 57 who was a street matchseller , and six younger tenants ; in another a woman of 68 was subletting to another woman of 65 , a crippled woman of sixty , and two others ; while in a third household a 71-year-old sandwich-man lived with an unrelated widow and widower of the same age and two younger tenants . |
| 16 | He could accept self-determination and advance the prospects of a political settlement without burning his boats with the army — to whom he presented association as the first step towards a real , consensual integration — and without seeming to capitulate or feeling that he was capitulating to the FLN . |
| 17 | It was reacting to Hongkong & Shanghai Bank 's £3.1 billion takeover bid for Midland . |
| 18 | However , when Dolly Howard thought she would peep through the curtains to see how her father was reacting to the nudes she found that she was the one who was shocked . |
| 19 | Jess glanced at Miss Phoebe to see how she was reacting to the bit about niggers . |
| 20 | Duva was reacting to Lewis 's astounding second round knockout of ‘ Razor ’ Ruddock amid wild scenes in the early hours of Sunday morning at London 's Earls Court . |
| 21 | Maybe she was reacting to the challenge . |
| 22 | The critic was reacting to Johnson 's capacity for inventive response . |
| 23 | At least when he was condemning her he was reacting to her , personally and subjectively ; now he was treating her as if she were a stranger . |
| 24 | She was reacting to the soft note in his voice , letting it wash over her and slow down the beat of her heart . |
| 25 | To her dismay , her body was reacting to the sensual word pictures Vitor had created and she could feel herself becoming aroused . |
| 26 | The supermarket 's suppliers Gulf Oil , based in Cheltenham , said it was reacting to a local situation and Tesco says the cut is part of it 's service to customers , denying it 's creating an artificially low price . |
| 27 | He was reacting to an open letter to the region which claimed that business had flourished under the Tories . |
| 28 | He was reacting to the Tory group 's comments that the ‘ prophets of doom and gloom ’ were incapable of recognising how much the region has progressed in the last 13 years . |
| 29 | The club was reacting to a proposal by Glasgow Brightsiders that the Scottish men 's first division should consist of just six teams next season . |
| 30 | Erm I I was suggesting to Clare and David that wherever we do know people who do n't live in this region we could get those people to , at my expense , send us a copy of their local Thompson Directory , which is an excellent resource for getting in touch with local businesses and other organizations . |