Example sentences of "[noun] be [v-ing] to [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | of our member authorities are saying to us that they have recorded instances of eviction . ’ |
| 2 | Hello , well what 's your mum been doing to you this morning ? |
| 3 | This seems to be the deplorable advice which the image builders are giving to their political clients . |
| 4 | In September these birds are changing to their ‘ eclipse ’ plumage , where the black of the head becomes just a dark spot behind the eye . |
| 5 | I understand that Wyre Borough are forwarding to you a copy of a recent letter to their Environmental Health Officer from Nether Wyresdale Parish Council and I write to reiterate the concern felt by the Parish Council about this site especially the environmental and health hazards involved . |
| 6 | Julia and the kids are going to her parents in Cumbria . |
| 7 | ‘ These kids are coming to my house every night . |
| 8 | The Russians are coming Faced with social turbulence and resurgent anti-Semitism , many thousands of Soviet Jews are emigrating to their spiritual home . |
| 9 | Many of them received just over Christmas and parents and schools are looking to us to give them help er in providing for what is a very rapidly moving situation . |
| 10 | Mungo 's clammy pyjamas were clinging to his chest . |
| 11 | And Charles 's tactics were damaging to his own subjects : the peasant who declared that he dare not get out of bed in the morning for fear of the English spoke for many of his compatriots , and the unchallenged presence of English armies on French soil not only caused substantial physical hardship to the population but also lowered Charles 's prestige . |
| 12 | But in recent years we noticed that some candidates were writing to us — or their employers were writing — to say that certificates had n't been received for modules completed one or more years previously . |
| 13 | Mum 's eyes were signalling to me — something far-away and desperate . |
| 14 | It was not only that animals were suffering to their detriment , but their abusers were themselves brutalised in the process . |
| 15 | ‘ Because of the British side 's sticking to its erroneous stand , the two sides were divided on some major issues of principle , ’ said Ambassador Ke . |
| 16 | Human possums avoid conflict by agreeing with whichever side is talking to them at the time . |
| 17 | Granddad 's talking to you |
| 18 | Just a minute mummy 's talking to me . |
| 19 | ‘ Most people tend to gather at the track and do the group session , without even stopping to think what the training effect is doing to their body , or how they are going to progress next week , or the week after . ’ |
| 20 | When low down it seems to flash various colours , because its light is coming to us through a thick layer of the Earth 's atmosphere . |
| 21 | They says , that fella 's coming to me , he 's supposed to be coming out . |
| 22 | The voice of your brother 's blood is crying to me from the ground . |
| 23 | It was an enraging affectation , worthy of an Oxford undergraduate , especially as Charlie might do it in the middle of a conversation , as he had done recently at a college gig : the Union President was talking to him when Charlie 's hands reached into his side pocket , the book was extracted and opened , and the man 's eyes popped in disbelief as Charlie imbibed a beakerful of the warm South . |
| 24 | Rose was silent , only too aware that the whole workroom was listening to them . |
| 25 | Irony was returning to his voice . |
| 26 | But like , Scott was going to me he was going to me , oh stop complaining or I 'll give you one your tit , like and I goes well I would n't mind so much if it was on my , I wear a bra all the time |
| 27 | David was driving to his country mansion in Halsall when his car somersaulted into a water-filled ditch . |
| 28 | This was not what God was saying to him , it was what Demian was saying to himself . |
| 29 | Cobalt was struggling to his feet , muttering . |
| 30 | Baker also told the committee that he was satisfied that the PLO was adhering to its 1988 commitment to renounce terrorism , a statement which infuriated Shamir and his supporters . |