Example sentences of "[vb past] he [be] [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Laura 's just an old friend , ’ he said , knowing it was hopeless , that he had blown it or rather that Laura had blown it for him , and found he was speaking to the back of her neck . |
| 2 | But he found he was listening to the sonata through a hiss . |
| 3 | Susan Coltman , a long-standing friend of Paula , giving evidence on the third day of the trial , said Gilfoyle added he was training to be part of a specialist emergency team dealing specifically with suicides . |
| 4 | I can not imagine what sort of place this gentleman imagined he was coming to in bringing the latter , but I must say it struck something of an odd note to see in Darlington Hall these two large silent men staring suspiciously in all directions a few yards from wherever the Italian gentleman happened to be . |
| 5 | ‘ I assumed he was going to the apartment to pick up some papers , ’ she said vaguely . |
| 6 | As he warmed to his theme , George forgot he was talking to one individual , and through him to a huge lay audience . |
| 7 | When Blanche and Dexter arrived he was mumbling to himself on the side of the bed , hands clasped in the lap of his dressing gown . |
| 8 | She sensed he was pretending to be asleep when she got in to bed . |
| 9 | He took no special notice of her , but she felt welcome , and when he was explaining some method of or reason for the cultivation of certain trees , she sensed he was talking to her as much as to the boys and girls around them . |
| 10 | And when I discovered he was going to be a priest . |
| 11 | When she got a little closer she saw he was talking to the -man she 'd had the brush with when she first came in , and she hesitated in her progress . |
| 12 | He felt he was going to … |
| 13 | She knew he was speaking to her as if she were either an idiot or a child but the momentary fight had quite gone and she just nodded , looking up at him . |
| 14 | She knew he was referring to her last meeting with Jake and that explosive love scene in the drawing-room , only the sketchiest version of which he 'd been privy to . |
| 15 | ‘ Help me ! ’ said a voice in his head , and Jack knew he was listening to one of the Ram children . |
| 16 | That 's why sometimes they got mad at him because they knew he was talking to them and about them and they knew that it applied to them . |
| 17 | He got off with him and he knew he was going to the station to sign off and he asked him , ‘ Did you pay your fare on the car ? ’ |
| 18 | As fate had a habit of doing , it had played what he termed a rather dirty trick for although Martin and his father before him had both found the running of the estate anything but easy as far as money was concerned , this young man would be better off than either of them , for Martin had only within the last year taken out two very large policies on his life , the second when he knew he was going to be married . |
| 19 | Farrell knew he was going to be sick . |
| 20 | She knew he was going to the Mnarja festival at Buskett , and she saw no reason why the betrothal customs should stop her from going too . |
| 21 | ‘ Well , ’ she curled up on the deep sill and wrapped the duvet more tightly around herself , leaving him to find a seat of his own as she knew he was going to , ‘ that sounds like life — so what ? ’ |
| 22 | Actually there 's Paul , the guy who 'd given me a lift to the concert and , and he mentioned going to the , the film I saw , erm but I knew he was going to the pub , he always goes to the pub afterwards . |
| 23 | And erm , I knew he was going to prison . |
| 24 | At one point Ms d'Argy Smith feared he was going to be sick over her designer jacket . |
| 25 | I thought he 's going to sleep again . |
| 26 | Ignorantly , I thought he was referring to the great Catholic/Protestant divide . |
| 27 | I suppose he thought he was talking to Sally . |
| 28 | He grabbed my tie and I thought he was going to nut me in the face . |
| 29 | For one terrible moment he thought he was going to be dismissed . |
| 30 | She 'd cried because she thought he was going to be hit . |