Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] it be [v-ing] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They have got the banks peeling off and they do n't know how it 's going to operate … |
| 2 | But we did n't know how it was going to go , so mentally we set a time limit on it . |
| 3 | But this if I may pick up on the point Mr made , how then do you assess the environmental impact of what you 're proposing if you do n't actually know where it 's going to go ? |
| 4 | You can sit back and enjoy the plot without worrying how it is going to turn out for your favourite character — because you wo n't have one . |
| 5 | He can last for hours during the day without needing to go to the toilet , so I ca n't understand why it 's continuing to happen at night . |
| 6 | Visualize how it is going to fit in with its neighbours : the stems may be rough-trimmed , but you will prune them later in early spring , not now , and then the new growth will follow much the same line of the present branches . |
| 7 | She often said in her letters , if only she 'd known how it was going to turn out , she 'd have taken the baby with her . |
| 8 | Coming to the 18th , he said he 'd never had five birdies in a row , and I thought perhaps it was going to stay that way because he put his second way through the green . |
| 9 | He reflected , ‘ It was a disaster , this movie , and I knew then it was going to set me back . ’ |
| 10 | Only Maestros and deities lived forever , and a man might sour the balance of his span knowing when it was going to end . |
| 11 | I suppose it was the predecessor of the modern telex , but it was an unreliable piece of equipment and we never knew when it was going to misbehave and we might have to send for the mechanic to come and unclog its innards . |
| 12 | I could never tell when it was going to happen . |
| 13 | There now has to be more meetings to see how it 's going to work in practice . ’ |
| 14 | If there is any upturn , people wonder when it is going to benefit them and whether it can be sustained . |
| 15 | And all the old crowd returned They 'd often come past the shop to see when it was going to open up again . |
| 16 | all the little branches will open out it 's going to look extremely nice when it 's er when it 's displayed . |
| 17 | Fifth , it ignores reality by failing to explain how it 's going to track Windows which he thinks Microsoft will doubtless make a moving target by adding value like bundling in Access , its new database . |
| 18 | But then you foil a new project to your expenditure and say look if you want to do these as indeed , you 've expressed then it 's going to cost you so much . |