Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] [verb] to be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'll have to be getting home , ’ I said . |
| 2 | Some time later , Joe , looking at his wrist watch , said on a note of deep regret , ‘ I 'll have to be getting back , the guests are coming at four . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , thanks for explaining it all to me , but I 'll have to be going too , I 'm afraid . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I 'll have to be going . |
| 5 | PAUSE Look , I 'll have to be going now anyway . |
| 6 | ‘ I think I 'll have to be going back now . |
| 7 | If you find me more time , or get an extra teacher in the department , I 'd love to be doing better . |
| 8 | I 'd hate to be wearing it ! . |
| 9 | ‘ If I 'd done it then , perhaps I would n't have been fit to go to the Olympics and worlds , and I 'd hate to be sitting here now thinking I could have won . |
| 10 | Simon says in a soap fans ' magazine : ‘ I 'd hate to be going out with some girl that all the boys were hassling or eyeing up . |
| 11 | So I think for next week I 'd like to be looking in some detail , there are two sources on this one is , is and the other is , tho those two are crucial in terms of understanding or , and and that those are crucial in terms of understanding erm why this policy document . |
| 12 | ‘ I wish you were n't dead , Father Tom , you fuck , I wish you were still alive , because I 'd like to kill you again , you fuck , I 'd like to be starting now , starting to kill you now , starting now , holy Father Tom , you fuck , I 'd like to be killing you now . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ But if it takes that long to sort things out I 'd like to be playing for Sunderland . |
| 14 | ‘ I wish you were n't dead , Father Tom , you fuck , I wish you were still alive , because I 'd like to kill you again , you fuck , I 'd like to be starting now , starting to kill you now , starting now , holy Father Tom , you fuck , I 'd like to be killing you now . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ What I 'd like to be doing is putting you over my knee and giving you the spanking you heartily deserve , ’ he said grimly . |
| 16 | It 's just that I 'd like to be doing more outside work . |
| 17 | ‘ I would prefer to be coaching British crews . |
| 18 | They occupy a major part of my time — time I would prefer to be spending on actually trying to improve the services we offer . |
| 19 | ‘ The injury has come at a time when I would love to be looking forward to making my home debut against Forest . |
| 20 | I would like to be marching with them . |
| 21 | Head of Department : ‘ In 1976 I had a clear idea where I would like to be going : |
| 22 | I shall have to be looking out for a second hand bike-y just for the occasional trip into town without getting Stuey out of bed so I be a bit more independent than just bothering you all time , if I just wan na pop anywhere . |
| 23 | The fact remains that we as a council if we wish to , can meet a proper prudent budget and the alternative proposals tonight , which is really the the er unfortunate ones which would appear to be going through , are really not recognisable , that this is not the time to impose additional council tax or anything else on the people of this city when generally speaking their personal finances are not at their best . |
| 24 | In so far as the general picture is intelligible , it appears that we are dealing with a group of warlords in the north , some of whom could claim to be upholding Roman jurisdiction . |
| 25 | The chances are that during the first eight or nine years you may appear to be treading water in the process of proving yourself . |
| 26 | Claudia , you may want to be checkin' yer motor every minute or so . |
| 27 | Note , too , that if you write ironically you may seem to be satirising the question , or the process of analytical writing about literature more generally . |
| 28 | You should aim to be using video in the classroom as easily as you use the audiocassette recorder or the Overhead Projector . |
| 29 | But you 'll have to be speaking up ! ’ |
| 30 | With far more reason than Harold Wilson in 1964 , she could claim to be running ( mutatis mutandis ) a Bolshevik revolution with a Tsarist Cabinet . |