Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [pron] [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had him by the hand by then , and was drawing him in to the hearth , for the early November mist was on his shoulders , and his face looked thin and cold . |
| 2 | Now I was in a position to move on ; but something had taken root deeper than the superficialities of travelling — a feeling that my story was not here , that something was drawing me back to Peru . |
| 3 | Councillor Rosie was appalled that the paper was American , outlining aspects of child abuse , what to look for , and how to confirm suspicions ; it was also nearly ten years old , written by an ‘ expert ’ who had been discredited in his own country , and certainly did n't signify that the council was keeping itself up to date on matters of such importance . |
| 4 | Nothing could dent the self belief that was driving her on to new heights . |
| 5 | and erm she li she 's in Egham and her boyfriend came down and was driving her back to Sheffield and then driving back again here on Monday so she got a free journey home . |
| 6 | A harry torrent flooded through the opening and in no time at all the herd was legging it back to the high land in a wild stampede . |
| 7 | As I left my GP — he was passing me over to a surgeon — and he shook my hand and wished me luck — that in itself was a bad sign — neither the truth nor the meaning had really sunk in . |
| 8 | I did n't have to pay any more and I did n't , and I was passing it over to Steve . |
| 9 | A moment later , with a curt ‘ Follow me ’ , he was leading her down to the end of the corridor , then along a short passageway off to the right . |
| 10 | I was pointing it out to my passengers when I heard ‘ Mayday ! |
| 11 | You can tell him I was pointing it out to you , should he have the bad manners to bring up the incident . ’ |
| 12 | The tricky bit was getting you back to where you belong — in the real world . ’ |
| 13 | He was sending himself up to a degree , but it does n't matter . |
| 14 | But by the time I had got it out of the packet and placed it between my lips , he had lighted a cerillo and was holding it out to me in cupped hands , smiling above the soft yellow flame whose elvish reflection danced in his blue eyes . |
| 15 | Now , his security escort was dishing him up to her on a plate . |
| 16 | WHILE Nick Faldo was stirring himself back to life again in the Freeport-McMoran Classic with a second round of 69 , Sandy Lyle was left contemplating what he felt was likely to be another missed cut in his final preparation for next week 's Masters . |
| 17 | She need n't have worried ; a brief note from Dana on the kitchen table said that Roman was taking her out to dinner and that she was not to wait up , neither was she to wake Dana in the morning ; she would come for her fitting in the afternoon . |
| 18 | I managed some breakfast , met up with Colin 's coach Malcolm Arnold who was taking me down to the track , and we walked in the sunshine to where the buses waited to run the shuttle to the Olympic Stadium . |
| 19 | The custodian was taking it back to the clubhouse area , where it would be needed for the final ceremony in about an hour 's time . |
| 20 | For a brief moment later , he had picked her bodily up in his arms , and , as if she weighed less than nothing , was carrying her over to the bed . |
| 21 | He was making her out to be a two-faced liar . |
| 22 | King Vidor , who directed him in Man Without a Star in 1955 , said , ‘ I felt throughout the filming that Kirk was working himself up to being a director . |
| 23 | It was almost as if he was working himself up to making a confession . |
| 24 | there was a communicating door in one corner of the room and from behind it came the third movement of the Mozart , which was working itself up to that frantic minor-key Turkish routine which I 've never thought a good enough ending for such a great beginning ; but then that complaint went for just about everything in my life . |