Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [pron] be [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's a tragedy to see what 's happening to it but it 's nice to know the council is trying to do something , ’ she said . |
| 2 | Still to come , the Prison Officers Association warns there 's going to be more violence in our prisons , and thieves steal historic relics from Stanton Harcourt Manor in Oxfordshire . |
| 3 | Well we 'll see if there , if there well the jury can have a look at them if they want , certainly if er if neither side think they 're going to be of any assistance then there 's not much point in producing them . |
| 4 | ‘ But what really annoys me is when I 'm stuck in a traffic jam , and ca n't let my childminder know I 'm going to be late . ’ |
| 5 | The first is a moral one , that if chimpanzees are really like man they may have the same capacity to understand what is happening to them and imagine their futures , which would make laboratory studies , especially physiological interventions , unacceptable . |
| 6 | The Oxfordshire team know it 's going to be tough . |
| 7 | It took me a moment to realise he was talking to me . |
| 8 | Often meetings with ‘ advisers ’ can be counter productive and it will be desirable to bring you and , say , Mr [ Chief Executive ] into the picture so that the potential purchaser feels he is talking to a principal . |
| 9 | ‘ Yet you still get young people from here arriving in London on a Friday evening thinking it 's going to be easy to find a place to stay in right away . |
| 10 | At 3.05pm she appeared barefoot , dressed in jeans and a cotton blouse on the doorstep to say she was going to post some letters . |
| 11 | Goodness knows what was happening to her , but she seemed to be trapped in some thick mental fog . |
| 12 | And this sign says we are going to Cape Town . ’ |
| 13 | I can not imagine what sort of place this gentleman imagined he was coming to in bringing the latter , but I must say it struck something of an odd note to see in Darlington Hall these two large silent men staring suspiciously in all directions a few yards from wherever the Italian gentleman happened to be . |
| 14 | It is sometimes argued that an experienced programmer can detect the ‘ general shape ’ of a particular high-level language X from blocks of machine code , just by hunch and judgement , but this ignores the possibility that the code may have been written in language Y with the syntactic style of X precisely in order to create this confusion ; just as one can murmur English with a German intonation and cause a distant listener to believe he is listening to unintelligible German . |
| 15 | You 're putting over information on the basis that the only thing that a t an intelligent person think I 'm saying to you now , what 's going to be the effect of that on the listener ? |
| 16 | What the devil have you been doing to yourself ? |
| 17 | Your analogy would be more accurate if you 'd talked of a mechanic saying he was going to the boot of my car to check the battery , having of course meant to say the bonnet . |
| 18 | Yeah , my mate thought I was going to his , his old man 's a builder and er , he 's a good worker and he 's trouble getting the money out of him . |
| 19 | ( Another example could be my answering the telephone in a high voice so as to make the caller think he is speaking to my sister . ) |
| 20 | The vibrant ‘ Zoo Station ’ kicked everything off and right from the word go it was going to be something special . |
| 21 | " My daughter said she was talking to some man in the street . |
| 22 | Spoiling his grand posture as little as possible , he glanced quickly sideways into the crowd to see who was speaking to whom . |
| 23 | I assumed there would be a reason assume there was going to be a good reason . |
| 24 | ‘ The gaffer said I was going to be an economist , and that was that . ’ |
| 25 | Massive economic growth made the country think it was going to be the next Japan . |
| 26 | On the trains no problems , East Midlands Airport say everything 's running to time , in the city centre no huge delays anywhere , on the motorways they 're all okay as well , on the A One there 's major work just started on the roundabout , that 's the er five lanes end roundabout affecting southbound traffic , there are long delays there in peak times , that 's at er five lane ends , the work there on the A One just started , that 's the Roundabout , southbound traffic is being affected , there are long delays there . |
| 27 | The company says it is porting to other platforms in September , hinting at ICL and Hewlett Packard . |
| 28 | And will the public realise who is speaking to them ? |
| 29 | She knew all about Gesner — he 'd got a girl pregnant last year and everyone in the Company said he was appalling to the new leading lady , although she had n't noticed it herself . |
| 30 | I 've erm dad had a lot of old gardening to , tools up in er his shed when he was up but when we when dad retired he was going to erm take them , but he forgot about them |