Example sentences of "[noun prp] [v-ing] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could feel Mrs Orton wanting to be noticed , desiring to be liked , preventing these things . |
| 2 | NOW NORSK DATA ASKS FOR ITS OSLO LISTING TO BE CANCELLED FOR TWO MONTHS |
| 3 | She would never have had the kind of success she 's had , with Broadway and so on , if she 'd stayed at home in England waiting to be asked . |
| 4 | They do n't want Amanda Jane suffering to be in vain . |
| 5 | I spent two years in Washington trying to be a surgeon , but I could n't settle in the States . ’ |
| 6 | Giambologna 's Fata Morgana setting to be restored ? |
| 7 | Was Denwood going to be overlooked ? |
| 8 | In Lodge 's characterology , they are Robyn Penroses aspiring to be Morris Zapps . |
| 9 | It 's either Maurice going to be there or . |
| 10 | Or consider rhetorical questions like ( 36 ) : ( 36 ) Was Mussolini going to be moderate ? which if the participants believe that whatever Mussolini was , he was not moderate , is likely to convey ( 37 ) : ( 37 ) Mussolini was definitely not going to be moderate Here , by overtly violating the sincerity of a question , once again an implicature is generated by a flouting of the maxim of Quality . |
| 11 | TWO Britons being held in Iraq have written to Saddam Hussein begging to be released . |
| 12 | One is hammering on the front door of Elland Road asking to be let in to the VIP suites . |
| 13 | It was Mr trying to be funny and |
| 14 | Robb , the brilliant 20-year-old from Liverpool bidding to be the youngest-ever to take the two-lap crown , was always off the pace in the 800 metres , won by Kenyan William Tanui . |
| 15 | I am here making recordings of the Masai singing about cows and meanwhile my father is sitting in Paris pretending to be a man of the world , a saviour of his people while they are being sent off to be killed . ’ |
| 16 | Terence hoping to be discovered or something , they say , they say er , |
| 17 | For three days they parleyed ; Rawn demanding their surrender and the Nez Perce asking to be allowed into Montana in peace . |
| 18 | Jesus was God pretending to be a man |
| 19 | Is Franks going to be in on this ? ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Lubor — you 're terrific ! ’ she told him , and , Azor wanting to be away , ‘ See you ! ’ she added smilingly , and , unleashing the dog , set off . |
| 21 | More secure accommodation for the most persistent young offenders , both on remand and after conviction , is certainly required , not least to overcome such nonsense as the case of a teenager from Tyne and Wear having to be sent to a unit in Essex . |
| 22 | She told them that a man had knocked on the door of her home in Hereford claiming to be from the council . |
| 23 | The fortnightly was ‘ Andrew pretending to be Kleenex . |
| 24 | Is Tim going to be any colour ? |
| 25 | Perhaps the most poignant echo in the tale comes towards the end where the townspeople , laughing at John , " " kiken and … cape " " , " peer and gape " , into his roof ( 3841 ) , repeating the verb used of Nicholas pretending to be transfixed by his astrological vision ( 3444 ) : the " " folk " " here align themselves with Nicholas — and with Nicholas the trickster , not Nicholas of the branded bum . |
| 26 | If you Liz , Elizabeth pretending to be Jessica or is Elizabeth really Elizabeth . |
| 27 | How far apart are Manchester and Carlisle going to be ? |
| 28 | TADPOLE PLACING TO BE FOLLOWED BY IBM SUBSCRIBING FOR AN INITIAL 2.7% |
| 29 | How long are Eileen and Tony going to be over there for then ? |
| 30 | If he did , was Henry going to be able to avoid serving him with any ? |