Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | now the avoidance of doubt , when you 've got to another aspect of the case quite different , namely the claim for special damages , you were suggesting to Mr that there , there was a deliberate attempt to and after all whereas you might not like my er use of the to swing on to the Daily Telegraph |
| 2 | ‘ The captain fed us bits of information about decompression and what to do , and after 10 minutes we were told we were returning to Birmingham because of a shattered windscreen on the aircraft . |
| 3 | Even so , by the end of April 20,000 Kurdish refugees a day were returning to havens set up in northern Iraq by Western troops — not without some hesitation , as when Kurdish peshmerga declared the haven at Zakho unsafe because there were still Iraqi police in the town . |
| 4 | Catherine and James Tomlins were returning to Ireland after a surprise visit to their grandparents in Britain . |
| 5 | Escaping to Somerville during the war , she remembered her wonderful last year , when battle-scarred heroes were returning to university . |
| 6 | Some months later a colleague and I were returning to London from a meeting in Brussels . |
| 7 | Haddington Sheriff Court heard that the left-hand drive Land Rover driven by Timothy Taylor collided with a ten-ton lorry on the Edinburgh-Newcastle road near Spott , East Lothian , while their 18-man team were returning to Germany from training in the Highlands with the Royal Marines . |
| 8 | I also must add that as far as the war moved to its close , crews became increasingly better ; the output of the Empire Air Training Scheme gave us crews with more experience ; second and even third tours crews were returning to Operations ; and in the final phase , in daylight , the casualty rate dropped dramatically . |
| 9 | While the SAS were returning to Jalo a battle was raging and the Eighth Army was in retreat back to the Egyptian frontier . |
| 10 | My wireless operator reported that several of our Italy-bound contemporaries had abandoned the sortie and were returning to Jersey . |
| 11 | Mark , 26 , Cindy Kibble 27 , and Debbie Hunter , 26 , were returning to homes in Devon and Cornwall from Germany when their Toyota Corolla went out of control in sleet on the M4 motorway in Berkshire . |
| 12 | By ten-fifteen the next morning , 5 January , we had loaded the wheelbarrow on to the trailer and were driving to Adrar , along the section I had walked the day before . |
| 13 | Earthtrust removed the dead bodies and organised regular supplies of fish for the surviving dolphins in Shakang Harbour who were starving to death . |
| 14 | He began by saying that people were starving to death , and it got more pessimistic from then on : the resettlement camps , the ensuing dislocation which meant people could no longer grow their food , the dying children . |
| 15 | The scouts were walking to Chester cathedral for an afternoon service as part of the scouts Service of Praise . |
| 16 | But a lot of strange things were happening to Alice today . |
| 17 | About two weeks later , while still at Biot , Mrs Rose began receiving strange messages by telephone purporting to come from Crabb which were according to Mrs Rose supposed to have contained personal phrases and nicknames which only the two of them knew . |
| 18 | Given no avenues to think for ourselves , we could at least say ‘ No ’ to what others were seeking to foist upon us . |
| 19 | The most noteworthy consequences of such an attitude was that at the same time as growing numbers of Latin Americans , particularly young people , were looking to Marxism for some kind of solution , the orthodox Communist parties were widely perceived to be inert and impotent . |
| 20 | The article did conclude with the ( then ) good news that the BBC were looking to phase out these interruptions , possible the third Test ( of last summer ) . |
| 21 | By lunch , Lancashire , finalists twice in the last three years , were looking to captain Neil Fairbrother ( 25 not out ) for inspiration . |
| 22 | Er , the I I also make the point , that er , my understanding is having now talked to a number of the other C A B's , that in fact they were looking to Thamesdown money advice centre because this money was actually to replace funds that previously had been er , available through the Allied Dunbar sponsorship scheme , and which has , which I gather was withdrawn er , at very short notice , and they were looking to Thamesdown to er provide that support and resource as a county resource , and I I therefore felt that it was right to bring it forward . |
| 23 | Er , the I I also make the point , that er , my understanding is having now talked to a number of the other C A B's , that in fact they were looking to Thamesdown money advice centre because this money was actually to replace funds that previously had been er , available through the Allied Dunbar sponsorship scheme , and which has , which I gather was withdrawn er , at very short notice , and they were looking to Thamesdown to er provide that support and resource as a county resource , and I I therefore felt that it was right to bring it forward . |
| 24 | In 1985 , 150,000 vehicles a day entered the city centre and , of these , 53,000 were passing to destinations beyond . |
| 25 | On Friday evening , while they were listening to Gerhardt sing In Wunderschönen Monat Mai , Fru Gertlinger burst in uncharacteristically . |
| 26 | He adds : ‘ It 's a drag that a place where teenagers were listening to music was n't considered appropriate to talk about AIDS . |
| 27 | In the lounge , Willis and Hemmings were listening to George 's account of where he had been on the nights of the murders and the disappearance . |
| 28 | Many children heard the news before their parents because they were listening to schools programmes on the wireless . |
| 29 | But now motor racing , and earlier this afternoon , if you were listening to Saturday Special with John Briggs , you may have heard Eddy Jordan talking about his career in motor racing , leading up to his entry into Formula One this season with the Eddy Jordan Racing Team . |
| 30 | Another thing I said to Caliban the other day — we were listening to jazz — I said , do n't you dig this ? and he said , in the garden . |