Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] be [v-ing] to [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of your colleagues , anybody in the room , and if you , when you are the potential client , when you talk to Gerald or whoever 's talking to you , er , as if you 're a potential client , relate to everything he says . |
| 2 | This data can quickly be transferred from one information system to another and can be combined and transformed in ways which might not otherwise be practicable ; furthermore , data held on computers is invisible and not directly intelligible so that people have more difficulty in knowing what is in the records or what is happening to them . |
| 3 | A hand took him by the shoulder and shook him awake , and he started up with a cry , for a moment not knowing where he was or what was happening to him . |
| 4 | She remained conscious , but became increasingly disorientated , losing all awareness of where she was or what was happening to her . |
| 5 | and everyone 's saying to me , no you know , she 's kissing Pat Swayze it 's something that happened . |
| 6 | He mentioned then a touring display on the poet Hugh MacDiarmid , and I am writing to you now with some more information on the display . |
| 7 | Burglar — Well , that 's my storey and I 'm sticking to it ! |
| 8 | MARK ‘ HUBBA HUBBA ’ CASWELL denies ever playing one in his life ( that 's my story and I 'm sticking to it — Corky ) , but he volunteered for this job quickly enough … |
| 9 | And I 'm trying to I 've tried without success . |
| 10 | And you do n't realize that you are lost , and not only that , but you are griping when those who realize their condition call out to me and I 'm reaching to them and rescuing them , you are griping at that ! |
| 11 | ‘ That 's my story , and I 'm keeping to it . ’ |
| 12 | Well if you 're all the way over there and I 'm talking to you I can hear my voice more . |
| 13 | I went and got last night and I 'm saying to him , now give me your numbers . |
| 14 | Because it , it 's , it 's not particularly going to grab me because I 'm going to look at it and I 'm going to I 'm going to look down to see what it 's asking me do and certainly a busy news editor is looking down the line to see , and the first thing he 'll actually do is , is just have a , a very fast glance at it , find out what it 's about , and just make sure there 's someone who can be phoned , and what the news editor will do is actually throw it out into a pile of other handouts and there 's usually a journalist who 's , who 's who 's won first prize and their task for the day is to do all the handouts , and all you want to be sure of is that someone can make a phone call and the news editor wo n't , wo n't bother with any with any superfluous detail , all he 'd want to know is that somebody can be contacted , we 'll find out about it later . |
| 15 | Ah now you think about it , I mean there was this question in our maths test and I was chatting to him in the dinner queue about it and I was going yeah it was this and he goes oh you 're probably right and he was agreeing with me and I found out later that I was wrong but he still agreed with me . |
| 16 | And we were at MacDonalds and I was talking to her , anyway , he even got really jealous cos I was talking to her . |
| 17 | We have a special shipping section , and I was talking to them before I came here . |
| 18 | However all property belongs to God , ‘ The Land is mine and you are coming to it as strangers and pilgrims ’ ( Gen. 25:23 ) and so property rights are circumscribed by legal requirements : the responsibility to leave gleanings of corn and grapes for the poor , the right of a person to eat corn and grapes when passing through a field or vineyard , the requirement that the land be fallow during the Sabbatical year . |
| 19 | I , I do n't know how they get there but they know how our army works , we know how their army works , we can not hide manoeuvre 's and every army in the world knows the manoeuvre 's I 've been on one big NATO manoeuvre out in Germany right , and you 're saying to me they do n't know how I , how each army works |
| 20 | I remember I had to do one once , ear , nose and throat and everything and you 're explaining to them where the the erm adenoid and tonsil and tissue was and oh my god talk about |
| 21 | And I said , and you were saying to me , what is it that you want ? |
| 22 | I mean she does n't does n't see a lot of her erm you know and but she and she was talking to her the other day because she does n't like to get involved or say a lot but |
| 23 | you know , this woman that I , goes down the school that talks , who I talked to , she knew from Peterborough and I think she 's German , she 's got an accent , I 'm sure for certain she 's German , anyway she 's got twins in Robert 's class and she was talking to me today and she was telling me her husband moved out to move from Peterborough with his job so I said what does he do ? and she said he 's a scientist , so I said oh is he ? , |
| 24 | And she was saying to me , she says , I wish I were brainy like you ! |
| 25 | We 're particularly proud of him in South Cambridgeshire , as we 're also proud that so many of our environmental health officers like Alan Hobson do sterling work for us , and we are looking to them in the in the future with this semi-autonomy that they 've been given to really take on board the opportunities which have been given to them under the 1990 Act to really go to town on environmental health . |
| 26 | ‘ It has committed itself to this new dental hospital and we are looking to it to deliver . ’ |
| 27 | Save Stratford Street spokesman Mark Lockett said : ‘ The petition is still open and we are adding to it . |
| 28 | ‘ I see , ’ said Marian , ‘ and we are going to him ? ’ |
| 29 | We 've flagged up those problems to command and I 'm seeing Mr on Tue Tuesday afternoon I think it is , and Jed 's put a report into command and I 'll put on it as well , and we 're saying to them what is the answer ? |
| 30 | These guys are nudging each other , they go up to her , the music changes , and they 're talking to her , and she says no or whatever , and then the last guy walks up to her , the woman turns round , and she 's been replaced by someone wearing the same dress but she 's really fat . |