Example sentences of "they [modal v] be [v-ing] [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | They must be coming up to er rush time |
| 2 | They 'll be reporting back to us later this week on how they coped without a car and with their views on how public transport filled the gap — or not , in ’ The Road Ahead ’ . |
| 3 | Erm so maybe they 'll be going on to university , college university . |
| 4 | I wonder if er , they 'll be going back to New York . |
| 5 | Pete went over to the wagon , and as he was taking out the inventory clipboard he explained that they 'd be going down to the boat house in Diane 's pickup truck . |
| 6 | Leslie had wanted to rejoin his old regiment , presumably in the belief that they would be going on to Sicily and Italy without too much delay . |
| 7 | He had tricked her , deliberately let her think that they would be going back to the hotel , but if he thought she was going to meekly go along with his conniving then he was going to be sadly disappointed . |
| 8 | They would be coming back to education , however , to build upon the qualifications they had already begun to acquire , and would feel at least equal , if not superior in some respects , to their peers who had remained in full-time education . |
| 9 | I think it is most likely that the Course will be completed by then but because they have to have their final papers in , the week or two before , it may be that they will be staying on to around that time . |
| 10 | I think we 're almost certainly guaranteed to get the S L O's back into the fold although bearing in mind the recent developments with the C P O's it 's unlikely that they will be coming back to the fold . |
| 11 | The happy landowner can then stand at the window smoking a pipe and wave cheerily at the unwelcome hill-walkers , secure in the knowledge that in a few minutes they will be heading back to the car , steam gently rising from them as they blink in distress from behind grisly face-masks of dung . |