Example sentences of "[subord] he [is] [v-ing] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said the championships were his last event ; he was quitting swimming to concentrate on bodybuilding and his studies at Houghall Agricultural College , Durham , where he is training to be a shepherd . |
| 2 | He ca n't behave or think or speak or do anything else better than I can — nearly as well as I can — so he 's going to be the Old Man of the Sea until I shake him off somehow . |
| 3 | If my husband 's going to be in about that time we all have it together , but if he 's going to be late they have theirs first . |
| 4 | If he 's going to be hungry , maybe I ‘ d better get a meal together . |
| 5 | ‘ He 's a good boy , he 's done nothing , they 've taken him away , I know he always comes home or sends me word if he 's going to be kept . ’ |
| 6 | If you pay money to an artist how can you tell if he 's going to be famous a couple of years from now ? |
| 7 | We could hardly expect Jennifer to want to go to that place if he 's going to be there . ’ |
| 8 | But if he 's going to be a leader , he 's got to be a bit of a bastard ’ . |
| 9 | Well she says Michael has n't rung so she said I assume that he 's coming cos if he 's going to be late , if he 's anywhere reasonable |
| 10 | If he 's going to be miserable I mean it 's only nursery it does n't really matter . |
| 11 | I mean it is a possibility , and if he 's going to be awkward perhaps we 'll have to just make sure that we do that , which is presumably fairly easy , if the post goes out from the same office . |
| 12 | He does n't realize it fully yet , because he 's trying to be nice to me at the moment . |
| 13 | well there are , no , no , because he 's going to be there to vote , but on , on |
| 14 | He 's still probably sweating a little because he 's waiting to be called off at the next motorway junction . |
| 15 | He has a month to decide whether he 's going to stay as a Member of Parliament and not be a member of the Government , or whether he 's going to be a member of the Government and resign his parliamentary seat . |
| 16 | Certainly this limpidity is not within Eliot 's reach even when he is trying to be limpid , as in ‘ Ash-Wednesday ’ ; , and of course the experience of a simple person enduring a commonplace and unavoidable sorrow — is such as Eliot could never manage , early or late . |