Example sentences of "he was [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , at seventeen , he was bowing to Mrs Cohen 's wish and had entered University College to study medicine . |
| 2 | Rosenberg worked hard to raise the money to have them give the American lecture tour , and he was beginning to be suspicious of Aveling , but Eleanor was devoted to him and deaf to all his antics . |
| 3 | ‘ I know , I know , just when he was beginning to be a success like Perry . |
| 4 | Maybe he was beginning to be sick , but mainly I think he was distressed . |
| 5 | When she and Dustin were reunited in the laundromat , he was beginning to be noticed off-Broadway and she was an established dancer . |
| 6 | He was beginning to be spoken of as a promising student who would be offered a lectureship at the end of the course . |
| 7 | He was humming to himself as he drove — occasionally contributing to the conversation — a placid , contented family man . |
| 8 | Sex with Greg was improving a little , he was learning to be less selfish , to think of her pleasure . |
| 9 | Ho , master greybeard loon , ’ he was shouting to Kelly , ‘ come fill the cup , or stap me for a whey-faced knave . ’ |
| 10 | A year after his arrival he was complaining to his wife of ‘ a disloyalty and a swollen-headedness which had spoiled N.N. Every Resident , including the best , writes at large on the policy we must pursue … |
| 11 | ‘ … 'Cos he was tryin' to f ’ force me . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ He was tryin' to f ’ force me . ’ |
| 13 | Patrick knew that he was bleeding to death . |
| 14 | She told him he was jumping to conclusions . |
| 15 | He was referring to Lou Duva , his former manager , and George Benton , then trainer . |
| 16 | He was referring to the opposition leader , Aung San Suu Kyi , whose home on Inya lake , northern Rangoon , is surrounded by troops to enforce her house-arrest and General Ne Win , whose residence on the other side of the lake is also surrounded by troops and who rarely ventures out . |
| 17 | He was referring to the times at Achnacarry when I would on occasion meet the trainees returning from a speed march and pipe them the last two miles back to the camp . |
| 18 | ‘ That bitch … ’ said Surkov softly , and I knew at once he was referring to Imogen . |
| 19 | The Bryce he was referring to was the general handyman . |
| 20 | There was a time , early in their days at Cambridge , when a brilliant and handsome research student from Yale made a determined pitch for Robyn , and she had been rather dazzled and excited by the experience ( he wooed her with a heady mixture of the latest post Freudian theoretical jargon and devastatingly frank sexual propositions , so she was never quite sure whether it was Lacan 's symbolic phallus he was referring to or his own real one ) . |
| 21 | He was referring to the remainder of Layforce which had been formed into the Middle East Commando , the Foldboat Section ( SBS ) and the ‘ parachute personnel ’ . |
| 22 | He was referring to ‘ prime ’ and ‘ premium ’ sausages in which you might expect leaner meat , less filler material , or less fat . |
| 23 | Ignorantly , I thought he was referring to the great Catholic/Protestant divide . |
| 24 | He was referring to the British Government 's ‘ bloody Tories ’ trade block against Russia whose revolution threatened European equilibrium . |
| 25 | He was referring to the well known local character whose unenviable job as council dustman , included emptying the local toilet buckets , as there was no running water in the area The local joke was that Terry had no problem getting a drink . |
| 26 | It was all a roundabout way of saying that Sien was synonymous with sorrow , and perhaps as well he was referring to the sorrowing mother of their childhood . |
| 27 | So when our Lord spoke about the Kingdom of Heaven being at hand , he was referring to its being qualitatively present . |
| 28 | He was referring to Argentine players with clubs abroad who , according to local laws , can not play for the Pumas . |
| 29 | He was referring to three extraordinary prices . |
| 30 | He was referring to the brigade of Dutch-Belgian infantry that was spread in four ranks either side of the road to block a direct attack from Frasnes . |