Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [v-ing] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The President was responding to the defeat on Feb. 19 of the ruling National Party ( NP ) in a by-election in Potchefstroom , in the western Transvaal , where the Conservative Party ( CP ) , the official white opposition party , won a majority of 2,140 , overturning the NP 1989 general election majority of 1,583 . |
| 2 | The library study was looking to the future of the library — not the RIBA . |
| 3 | Anthony 's usual animosity was coming to the fore . |
| 4 | The Tobacco Advisory Council refused to be interviewed , but said they were happy that the industry was keeping to the code . |
| 5 | Conscious of a ripping sound , she heard her zip go , then her taffeta skirt was rustling to the floor and he was pulling her down among its glossy folds , his lips marauding over hers so that it was the way it was in the unrequited dreams of the empty nights when everything came down to the touch of him like the still centre of the entire world . |
| 6 | Gurder was talking to the Thing in a low voice . |
| 7 | He was not in the clubhouse , where the Lord Lieutenant was on the telephone to Downing Street , nor at the police emergency centre , where the Chief Constable was talking to the duty officer in the Cabinet Office Briefing Room . |
| 8 | Work was returning to the yards and down the river . |
| 9 | ‘ He can excuse himself by showing that the escape was owing to the plaintiff 's default ; or perhaps that the escape was the consequence of vis major , or the act of God ; but as nothing of this sort exists here , it is unnecessary to inquire what excuse would be sufficient . |
| 10 | If the last time you were out for a duck was eating a salade tiéde magret de canard in an austere brasserie , or your most recent celebrated run was rushing to the embrace of the Cricketer 's Arms as last orders was called , pausing briefly to adjust your googlie , all is not lost . |
| 11 | Well I , I think that that 's exactly what the Committee was saying to the Minister there . |
| 12 | Goreng 's superior was coming to the end of his tour of duty . |
| 13 | The boy was going to the boxroom and was clearly excited at possessing a room of his own for the first time . |
| 14 | The enemy picquet that had ambushed the French vanguard was hurrying to the shelter of the wood , but some of them had left their retreat too late and the Dragoons caught them . |
| 15 | Khotan subsided suddenly , but before he could fall over , the major-domo was signing to the slaves . |
| 16 | The Centre for Management Buy-out Research said that confidence was returning to the market , though final figures for 1992 indicated only one more MBO in 1992 than in 1991 at 446 , and 12 more MBIs , at 134 . |
| 17 | The teacher was talking to the class . |
| 18 | Scottish Members raised in the House the problems faced by Scotland and clearly indentified the terrible damage that the poll tax was doing to the people of Scotland , but the Government continued to blunder on in their merry way . |
| 19 | On the other hand , it was argued that the infliction of capital punishment was degrading to the public and that there was no real evidence of its deterrent effect . |
| 20 | The red plume was nodding to the rhythm of the horse 's steps . |
| 21 | It is not all that many months ago that the right hon. Gentleman was saying to the House and to people beyond it that the most important thing was to get inflation down from its then level of 10.9 per cent . |
| 22 | I sensed that the hon. Gentleman was coming to the conclusion of his speech . |
| 23 | However , the position may be different if the party seeking to enforce the terms knows that the other has never had actual knowledge of them , since he can not then claim to reasonably believe that the other was agreeing to the terms . |
| 24 | Many Anglicans had been brought up to revere ‘ the family ’ , and felt that this publicity was damaging to the ideas they cherished ; a number of men also had reason to fear that their own behaviour would be exposed . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | By now the whole ground was resounding to the lilt of Rovers ' battle hymn of ‘ Goodnight Irene ’ from the terraces . |
| 27 | At first I was too busy to see any change in myself , but one morning after a few weeks our flight was coming to the end of a five-mile run . |
| 28 | When I met them after the game and asked them what they thought , they said the highlight was listening to the girl behind them telling her mate that if Batty did n't start playing better then she 'd have to start denying him sex ! ! ! |
| 29 | The Captain was saying to the Sub-lieutenant , ‘ I want to know everything she can tell us about the Maxwell girl , family , friends , habits , etcetera — everything . |
| 30 | Somehow , even to my youthful reasoning , it was as though the past was speaking to the present , that something of the love between these two people still lingered . |