Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 31 | The bar chart , built up as you go , shows you how you are keeping up to programme and teaches you about the idiosyncrasies of bar charts ! |
| 32 | If you are keeping strictly to 1,000 calories a day and not shedding surplus fat … then the chances are you are NOT keeping strictly to 1,000 calories a day . |
| 33 | On Friday George Tinsley and John Warnock , of The North Yorkshire Brewing Company , are jetting off to a trade fair in Tokyo to promote the pride and joy of Teesside 's real ale enthusiasts . |
| 34 | NURSES from South Tees are jetting off to the U.S. this month to find out about baby care , American style . |
| 35 | This , I suggest , is what has been happening up to now . ’ |
| 36 | ‘ You are a right dickhead — ’ I broke it to him gently — ‘ if you think we are driving down to Brixton in that . ’ |
| 37 | Er it 's really is to follow on from this debate that we 're having about what should happen if a shortfall occurs , erm and we 've heard , I 've been listening carefully to your views about er the way in which you agree with the Good Committee that a shortfall is an employers debt , the employers responsibility to meet that shortfall and we 've been talking about that shortfall should be met , but the Good Committee also concluded that er pensioners should not be regarded as preferential creditors erm and you also agreed with that . |
| 38 | No , the White House has been listening hard to how people think things look , and devising plans to fit . |
| 39 | I have been listening in to the E-Mail for some weeks , and in fact even coming in on weekend to pick up the results and comments . |
| 40 | Since then , police have been listening in to the frequency used by the gang . |
| 41 | Nothing of what I am going to attempt to say should in any way be read as denying the value of psychoanalysis nor as implying that the Church has not been , and continues to be , deeply misogynistic in ways that are damaging both to women and to the Church itself . |
| 42 | I felt really devastated that we lost and for that reason I have been looking forward to playing in this event again . ’ |
| 43 | You 're sixty-one and have been looking forward to retirement . |
| 44 | He had been looking forward to showing it all to her . |
| 45 | Even after his first round of 69 , Woosnam was still maintaining that he had not been looking forward to playing , that it had not done much for his confidence and that he was still very nervous with the putter in his hand . |
| 46 | One moment he had been looking forward to a happy and wealthy retirement and now , minutes later , he was a condemned criminal with only a few hours left to live . |
| 47 | ‘ I 've been looking forward to meeting you too , ’ she answered , which was true . |
| 48 | If she had accepted him , she could have been looking forward to a child of her own now . |
| 49 | I am still puzzled , to this day , as to why we did n't simply demand a refund and leave ; probably because we had all been looking forward to getting away so much that we were prepared to tolerate anything . |
| 50 | The time and effort demanded of them may put a strain on their relationship with a partner , who may have been looking forward to the years when they could be alone again as a couple . |
| 51 | I 've really been looking forward to flying — it will be my first time on a plane . ’ |
| 52 | I 'd been looking forward to telling Charlie how depressed and lonely I 'd been since we moved to London . |
| 53 | And here is Edward , who has so been looking forward to a new playmate ! ’ |
| 54 | He had had a good day at the office and his head had not troubled him ; they seemed pleased with his work ; he had been looking forward to telling her about it over supper , and now this . |
| 55 | Ramsay knew her by repute only and had been looking forward to seeing her in person . |
| 56 | He had had only one more year to serve before he could have retired into civilian life , and both he and Isobel had been looking forward to this . |
| 57 | The result will be disappointing , not only for you but also for the bride who has been looking forward to keeping her flowers for ever . |
| 58 | Looking immaculate in a bright red suit she said : ‘ I have been looking forward to this moment for a long time and I am glad to have been a part of it . ’ |
| 59 | He had been looking forward to ‘ getting away ’ as he put it , perhaps because it sounded more therapeutic than ‘ going on holiday ’ . |
| 60 | It was a birthday treat he had been looking forward to all week . |