Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] he was [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a second beer , Dr Reid prepared to leave , explaining that he was going to the dispensary . |
| 2 | The golfer , Ian Woosnam , has been fined more than two thousand pounds and banned from driving after he was found to be twice over the legal alcohol limit when he crashed his car worth eighty thousand pounds . |
| 3 | It is perhaps fitting that he was carried to his pauper 's grave by the stonemasons then engaged in restoring Camborne Church . |
| 4 | " Now all this time , El-ahrairah was dancing and mating and boasting that he was going to Frith 's meeting to receive a great gift . |
| 5 | Gob open and arms flapping , Ashcroft has the rare ability to sing about how he 's ‘ born to fly ’ while looking like he was born to be institutionalised , and make it convincing . |
| 6 | Auguste stared at her , wondering whether he was lecturing to imbeciles , and his gaze fell on Heinrich . |
| 7 | The servility of the old-style caddie may have gone forever , but Sir Henry 's view on what made a good caddie in 1934 , and three years later when he won at Carnoustie , is interesting because it still holds true today in the day and age of the yardage chart : ‘ My caddie Butler was content to jog along all day without speaking unless he was spoken to . |
| 8 | Did you hear Christopher saying that he was going to be getting erm a new Cavalier ? |
| 9 | ‘ And what were you doing while he was listening to all that ? ’ she exclaimed . |
| 10 | What was he doing while he was talking to you ? " she said tightly . |
| 11 | From the hearing , which took ninety minutes , Willis emerged visibly shaken , having been told he must wait five days before hearing if he was to go to prison or not . |
| 12 | He did n't mind admitting that he was attracted to Phil Prior , but then he had been attracted to many girls in the past . |
| 13 | 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 . |