Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] be [verb] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | What you say to me has been said only to me . |
| 2 | I 'd been muttering unhappily to a couple of friends about how hopelessly disorganized a particular campaign I 'd got involved with seemed to be when a strange man next to us started a similar but louder tirade about how useless Switchboard was , how everyone knew they were ripping off money from their fund raising and what a lousy job they did in his ( extremely small and third-hand ) experience . |
| 3 | I 'd been looking forward to telling Charlie how depressed and lonely I 'd been since we moved to London . |
| 4 | I 'd been looking forward to seeing you both , and I had wanted to discuss that Unesco thing with you . ’ |
| 5 | It was not until eleven years later that I returned to England and saw Biddy and Joe again , although I had been writing regularly to them . |
| 6 | To dwell on the Caledonian Canal for a moment , this was my first of many passages through which is for me the most beautiful of all the canals — the ultimate in inland waterways , so I had been looking forward to it immensely . |
| 7 | I had been looking forward to going to what I called ‘ big school ’ . |
| 8 | I am disappointed that none of those hon. Members is in his place , because I had been looking forward to their contributions and should have liked to address the odd remark to them , but I shall do that in any event . |
| 9 | As I had already been rock-climbing I decided it was time to take part in the activity which I had been looking forward to , canoeing ! |
| 10 | I had been brought close to another sort of despair by my inability to draw blood : a cat with no claws and ineffectual teeth . |
| 11 | I had n't planned that and what funds I had were coming here to the States . |
| 12 | Er it 's really is to follow on from this debate that we 're having about what should happen if a shortfall occurs , erm and we 've heard , I 've been listening carefully to your views about er the way in which you agree with the Good Committee that a shortfall is an employers debt , the employers responsibility to meet that shortfall and we 've been talking about that shortfall should be met , but the Good Committee also concluded that er pensioners should not be regarded as preferential creditors erm and you also agreed with that . |
| 13 | I feel as if I 've been whisked away to another world , ’ she breathed , her face radiant . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've been looking forward to meeting you too , ’ she answered , which was true . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've been looking forward to this , ’ Stephen announced with a kind of childish glee . |
| 16 | I 've been looking forward to seeing you so much . |
| 17 | I 've been looking forward to this visit for a long time for that reason . |
| 18 | ‘ Do you know all the way here I 've been looking forward to your particular brand of polite conversation ? |
| 19 | ‘ I 've been looking forward to seeing you , ’ he said , coming up close so I could smell him . |
| 20 | ‘ Dr Blake — Lindsey — I 've been looking forward to meeting you . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've been looking forward to meeting you , ’ she smiled . |
| 22 | I felt really devastated that we lost and for that reason I have been looking forward to playing in this event again . ’ |
| 23 | Looking immaculate in a bright red suit she said : ‘ I have been looking forward to this moment for a long time and I am glad to have been a part of it . ’ |
| 24 | Oh , I have been looking forward to this evening … ’ |
| 25 | It so happens Kelly and I have been looking forward to this weekend , and I guarantee that men will play no part in it at all . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I have been looking forward to her visit for weeks and was very excited when I met her . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I have been looking forward to her visit for weeks and was very excited when I met her . |
| 28 | It is a game I have been looking forward to for some time . |
| 29 | With regard to the Bill , after 30 years at the criminal Bar and 35 years in politics , I have been driven reluctantly to the conclusion that fear is a more effective motivator of human behaviour than anything else , especially when dealing with people of ill will . |
| 30 | In most cases , the characters for the keys that you press are passed directly to the application that is currently active . |