Example sentences of "i [be] [adv] to do " in BNC.
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| 1 | The opening words of God 's speech to Samuel are these : ‘ Behold , I am about to do a thing in Israel , at which the two ears of every one that hears it will tingle ’ ( v. |
| 2 | And I always spend the greater part of the first session explaining just what is going to happen and how he is going to feel ; as a result I hope that , by the time we begin the hypnosis itself , the patient will have had all his questions answered and his fears allayed , and will have begun to feel confidence in me and what I am about to do . |
| 3 | I am about to do so . |
| 4 | I 'm here to do a job of work and if dressing conservatively and ignoring his attempts at seductive banter are what it takes to remind him of the fact , so be it . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm here to do a job . ’ |
| 6 | I 'm here to do an inventory on your cruiser . ’ |
| 7 | I 'm here to do things . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm here to do a job . ’ |
| 9 | I 'm about to do it and I 'm hungry for victory . ’ |
| 10 | Right , this process that I 'm about to do should take place on that table there , normally . |
| 11 | ‘ Then you can lay a fire , which is what I was about to do , ’ he said with a flash of annoyance . |
| 12 | ‘ Matey will think that we are doing what I was about to do . ’ |
| 13 | Christ , I was about to do the Technicolor Yawn all over this girl 's jacket , through the tears and rusting her zips and filling her pockets , and probably send Jamie flying across the room into the beer-crates under the speaker stacks with the first awful heave , and here were these two trading absurd biker fantasies . |
| 14 | Right well yes that 's what I was about to do . |
| 15 | I was certainly to do with feeling that I would have to be a little bit slimmer , that I would have to be acceptable to other people , that I would have to change my shape and at the same time , I could not resist consuming large amounts of food . |
| 16 | I did n't have any mixed feelings about Tony being British , because I was there to do a job for Lee Trevino . |
| 17 | He was there to greet the head-teacher of the incoming school , and I was there to do whatever was required of a runner ! |