Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [be] [v-ing] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am interested in journalism , ’ said Thomas , who is staying with the Kilcran family in Dale Road , Darlington , ‘ but I am training to be a teacher . |
| 2 | But I am going to be . |
| 3 | I do n't know what anybody else is having but I 'm going to be bad tonight and have a cigarette and hot whiskey . |
| 4 | So I 'm I 'm not only going to be asking the conference office about what 's there , but I 'm going to be going and asking individuals even if we ca n't record your keynote speech here , will you be able to record us interviews , will you be able to record us whatever else . |
| 5 | ‘ Perhaps you will , ’ he said , ‘ but I 'm going to be married in a few weeks ' time . |
| 6 | But I 'm going to be rich ! ’ ‘ |
| 7 | ’ No ’ I groaned , ’ but I 'm going to be ’ . |
| 8 | I may be entirely wrong but I 'm going to be reading those when I 'm allowed to put my hands on a copy finally . |
| 9 | ‘ Lord , Ellie , but I 'm going to be fearful late for school ! ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Thanks all the same , but I 'm going to be busy tomorrow night … ’ she began coldly , putting her spoon back into her dish with a clumsy clatter which splashed strawberry and sugar juice on to her lap . |
| 11 | If there are friends coming to dinner , but you 're going to be busy during the day , do n't panic ! |
| 12 | But you 're going to be finding out they 're all rushing off ahead and you have n't worked out how many twelfths there are in two thirds or things like that . |
| 13 | ‘ But you 're going to be sorry ! ’ |
| 14 | ‘ No , but you 're going to be . ’ |
| 15 | Ah , but you 're going to be getting some extra police officers by taking them off er , paperwork , er you 're gon na get two thousand three hundred I see in the press , well that as shown , that of course will be twenty three , but if anybody here thinks the Chief Constable 's gon na produce twenty three new police officers through reductions in paperwork and through the other initiatives the Home Secretary has announced , well I do n't believe them , and we shall have to wait and see . |
| 16 | But you are going to be sorry to see that one go because you 've looked after her for so long . |
| 17 | To be eligible to win either of these guitars you ( or a representative ) must be available to attend the show on Sunday 29th for the presentation , but you were going to be there anyway , were n't you ? |
| 18 | She 's an even weaker fool than her brother , but she 's going to be useful to me . |
| 19 | Fenella was thinking it , but she was trying to be sensible and practical . |
| 20 | And there 's no way that we are going to be in a position to change your world , but we 're going to be able to change it slightly , not change it totally , . |
| 21 | But we are trying to be sensible . |
| 22 | Barry and Diane do n't expect their jobs or their home back — but they 're hoping to be given a tribunal date for later this year . |
| 23 | But they 're going to be |
| 24 | ‘ But they 're going to be dead by dawn tomorrow , so I do n't think the General or I will lose any sleep over it . ’ |
| 25 | But they 're going to be cut out from the two litre bottle range er if they 've got a bad back or these sort of situations . |
| 26 | But they 're going to be the smaller version , they 're going to be Escorts and Fiestas , I think people need encouraging to use them , cos |
| 27 | Nordstrom has not publicly put a cost on its plans , but they are going to be very expensive . |
| 28 | but they are going to be running short courses there about |
| 29 | The party 's spin-doctors had remained sceptical about the polls , but they were expecting to be able to argue that the Conservatives had lost their mandate , even if they were clinging to power in a hung parliament . |
| 30 | Not only that , but he is preparing to be interviewed by a Teesside literary magazine . |