Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] [vb past] be [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought I 'd better do all my jobs which I thought was going to be spread across the d the day . |
| 2 | It dealt with something about which I had been writing to Social Security Ministers for about six months — abuse of the benefit-in-kind regulations , whereby highly paid people were paying themselves in gilt unit trusts . |
| 3 | Ken , meanwhile , believed he had found a play that suited his temperament and talents better than most of the things on which he had been working to date . |
| 4 | An environmental activist prior to his appointment in 1990 [ see p. 37312 ] , Lutzemberger had been outspoken in his criticism of Brazilian institutions which he believed were contributing to environmental destruction , particularly that of the Amazon rainforest . |
| 5 | at all , no sense of dedication , because the job which he knew was going to be his , before he met the this Simpson . |
| 6 | And yet in the same lecture he had expressed his belief that the tradition of which he spoke was drawing to a close ; and , in the poem , the encounter with the familiar but only half-glimpsed figure is charged with a sense of transitoriness and loss : |
| 7 | A lot of them related to the data I 'd been passing but also he 'd want to know who I 'd been talking to . |
| 8 | She could n't remember who she had been talking to . |
| 9 | She 'd replaced the receiver instantly and refused to tell him who she 'd been speaking to , but then , as now , there was something challenging in her expression . |
| 10 | They wanted to give the notebook to Chris Bonington who they thought was coming to Kazakhstan in July . |
| 11 | I told him I 'd been talking to Richie . |
| 12 | ‘ No , you came here wanting to know what I 'd been saying to Mr Kronweiser today . ’ |
| 13 | He did n't know what they had been doing to him , but whatever it was he did n't like it , and he was going to let them know it in the only way he knew — by making as loud a noise as he could ! |
| 14 | and Peter came in the morning , I never thought anything I 'd been listening to the radio , I heard there was a big accident on the road , a car accident |