Example sentences of "[v-ing] [that] [pron] be [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gray said : ‘ There 's no denying that it 's going to be a tough fight now . |
| 2 | After a second beer , Dr Reid prepared to leave , explaining that he was going to the dispensary . |
| 3 | In 1945 Ottawa wrote to Ira Dilworth suggesting that I be transferred to the general production staff in Toronto and the strength of his opposition and mine resulted in the postponement of such a move . |
| 4 | ‘ I would imagine so , seeing that he 's going to be working here ! |
| 5 | In a separate development on Jan. 27 , nearly 1,000 students attempted to storm the villa where Ershad was being detained , demanding that he be transferred to prison within 24 hours . |
| 6 | You 're pretending that you 're speaking to somebody and just speak all the time . |
| 7 | To the question whether a man , who has intercourse with a woman believing that she is consenting to it , though she is not , commits rape , I think that he [ the ordinary man ] would reply , ‘ No . |
| 8 | The doctors were diverted into believing that it was related to my stomach . |
| 9 | Specific point of the South Wales police authority 's difficulties , would he not say that at least they 're partly due to the police authority believing that it was going to be er underspending in the current year and being out in its calculations by about two million pounds , would n't you think that that was at least a factor ? |
| 10 | It is perhaps fitting that he was carried to his pauper 's grave by the stonemasons then engaged in restoring Camborne Church . |
| 11 | Jimmy Jessop , the glaciation expert , who is a skilled pickpocket , undoes the back buttons of Neil 's braces as they lean over a diagram together , until Neil loses his temper , and chases Jimmy round the office , shouting that he is going to bloody kill him . |
| 12 | " Now all this time , El-ahrairah was dancing and mating and boasting that he was going to Frith 's meeting to receive a great gift . |
| 13 | The answer is not difficult , if we remember that each meeting of the Assembly was different in composition from all others ; personal oratory and ascendancy , not party organization , decided the issues , and that is why the absence of Kimon mattered so much : he would have given his usual speech on the ‘ special relationship ’ with Sparta , urging that nothing be done to the Athenian constitution to which oligarchic Sparta would take mortal offence . |
| 14 | You 'll remember that we had a pilot project in South Oxford Health Centre , Tony is one of the G P's there , I 'm expecting that he 's going to be very positive about this project since we all are , in terms of it 's practice service delivery . |
| 15 | Is that a nice way of saying that there 's going to be a lot of fighting , is that what they 've been planning ? |
| 16 | COUNTY councillor David Clark warned of significant changes to bus services affecting Liss residents at the parish council annual general meeting last week , saying that there was bound to be some confusion for a time . |
| 17 | Did you hear Christopher saying that he was going to be getting erm a new Cavalier ? |
| 18 | William of Jumiéges alleges that he treated the æthelings Edward and Alfred with honour , adopted them as brothers , and sent messengers to Cnut asking that they be restored to their own . |
| 19 | Buy the thickest jacket you can find — ideally 80 or 100mm thick — and check that it bears the British Standard Kite mark , indicating that it is made to BS5615:1985 . |
| 20 | so obviously she 's assuming that she 's talking to Elvis , but er , she ca n't prove it |
| 21 | Two of us decided in favour of The Sunday Times and against Mrs Thatcher , and those two did n't give a damn for Mrs Thatcher , we each of us decided it was a matter of principle , knowing that we were bound to be criticised , whatever we did , and we decided it , and there 's an end of it . |
| 22 | Christians have hindsight , you 're looking at it , you 're looking at it two thousand years later and you can see him riding into Jerusalem on a donkey , knowing that he 's going to a victory . |
| 23 | Following a precedent set by The Stone Roses , who broke free from the Silvertone label by claiming that they were tied to an unfair contract , Michael is to sue Sony on the grounds that his deal is restrictive and financially inadequate . |
| 24 | He did n't mind admitting that he was attracted to Phil Prior , but then he had been attracted to many girls in the past . |
| 25 | And when you come down , remember to do so with dignity , so that Dom João will not be thinking that he is betrothed to a tinker 's daughter . " |
| 26 | He looked at my pityingly , no doubt thinking that I was succumbing to the English diseases , amateurism and laziness . |
| 27 | The assumption is about what lies behind our saying of a man , when he comes out with the sounds , ‘ I 'm going to the bank ’ , that he is asserting that he is going to the bank , but our not saying this of the parrot . |
| 28 | We say that the man , who utters the same sounds as the parrot , is asserting that he is going to the bank because he is a man , and not a parrot . |
| 29 | Fearing her correspondence would otherwise be intercepted , the queen-dowager had entrusted it to the care of Cardinal Bourchier — sending it by a trusted servant to the cardinal 's residence , requesting that it be forwarded to her cousin forthwith . |
| 30 | He could accept self-determination and advance the prospects of a political settlement without burning his boats with the army — to whom he presented association as the first step towards a real , consensual integration — and without seeming to capitulate or feeling that he was capitulating to the FLN . |