Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [is] [v-ing] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm going to Paris 17 th –24 th June to spend the week with a friend whose husband has ‘ done so well ’ that he 's now on the board of the French Co. for which he works , and she 's trying to adjust to la vie Parisienne ! |
| 2 | Jim and he 's proposing to listen to the group today with the views to joining . |
| 3 | Magnus Magnusson has a reputation for being a tenacious man ( ‘ I 've started so I 'll finish ’ ) and he 's going to need to be as chair of the new Scottish Natural Heritage Agency . |
| 4 | You need to think about the person 's circumstances , and that 's where it 's great , that you can come back and sit down with your manager , and he 's going to say to you well what do you think . |
| 5 | ‘ The manager has made up his mind and he 's going to stick to it . ’ |
| 6 | And Wright , whose misery over the weekend was compounded when he wasted a glorious chance to rescue a point for Arsenal , added : ‘ Some people are just having a go at me for the sake of it and it 's beginning to get to me . ’ |
| 7 | You 've got a hundred — a hundred degrees in the day time and you 've got freezing conditions at night and literally just , people are lying , lying on the floor shaking at night time , erm they 're beginning to lose children , they have n't had an er epidemic of disease yet , you know they 're definitely going to get one , er and then the other big problem is er to coordinate a massive air lift , and it 's going to have to be an air lift , you know as , as big as say the Berlin air lift . |
| 8 | Government activity can be usefully divided into a number of different areas , and it is illuminating to see to what extent each of these areas is likely to be subjected to scrutiny in the courts . |