Example sentences of "[prep] be [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know that 's , she would of been wanting to ma , make her life president or whatever it was ! |
| 2 | Its a , during the course of the time of the crucifixion , Jesus is on the cross and its says there , there were two others also who were criminals , were being lead away to be put to death with Jesus and they came to the place called The Skull , there they crucified him and the criminals one on the right and the other on the left , but Jesus was saying father forgive them for they do not know what they are doing , and they cast locks divided up his garments among themselves and the people stood by and looking on and even the rulers was sneering at him excuse me , and even the rulers were sneering at him saying he saved others , let him save himself if this is the Christ of god , his chosen one , and the soldiers also mocked him , coming up to him offering sour wine and saying if your the king of the Jews save yourself now there was also an inscription above him , this is the kind of the Jews , and one of the criminals who was hanged there was hurling abut at him and saying you are not the Christ , save yourself and us , but the other answered and rebuking him said do you not even fear god , since you are under the same sentence of condemnation and we indeed justly for we are receiving what we deserve for our deeds , but this man has done nothing wrong and he was say , and he was saying Jesus remember me when you come in your kingdom , Jesus said to him truly I say to you today you shall be with me in paradise I wonder if you 've ever been in that awful position of facing of what you thought was certain death perhaps you were seriously ill and er , there seemed little hope of your recovery , perhaps you were facing some danger , some , some risk and it seemed almost certain that short of a miracle you were gon na die , I wonder what sort of thoughts would have been going through your mind , maybe w , may well be that you were with other people , I wonder what sort of things if you were in a condition of speaking , what sort of things you would of been saying to them . |
| 3 | I was very glad were not , we we could easily of been going to tonight . |
| 4 | However , as table 5.2 and figure 5.2 show , the other very important component of the trend is that more people than before are living to be very old , into the high eighties and nineties , and this is to some degree due to changing mortality trends at later ages . |
| 5 | From is opening to the outbreak of the war the " Ring " staged every German Grand Prix . |
| 6 | If you ask me , all he was interested in was getting to his pick-up point on time . ’ |
| 7 | That is why we did n't , we would of liked to have had it but the cost to put the mains gas in was going to be so enormous |
| 8 | He appeared genuinely not to know of Atkins and to be trying to be helpful . |
| 9 | Wilko must have fome faith in his ability … he seems to be trying to ‘ break ’ him in somehwat like Speed . |
| 10 | Suddenly , even the sound of his voice seemed to be getting to her . |
| 11 | This week the Action Team are going to be getting to grips with the Council Tax which came into effect from the 1st of April this year and affects us all . |
| 12 | The tension of being in his company had to be getting to her . |
| 13 | She seemed to be reading to them , while they listened with close attention . |
| 14 | Finch , however , denounced the 1300 perambulation as ‘ false and erroneous ’ , and coerced the Grand Jury and Forest officers into returning a verdict ‘ that the Meetes and Boundes of the Forrest of Deane ought to be according to the Perambulations made ’ in 1228 and 1282 . |
| 15 | Was this was ‘ a good example to be setting to the Chinese Government ’ ? |
| 16 | ‘ Sixteen coffees , ’ she announced in the cool voice that they seemed to be using to each other , ‘ followed by — er — ’ Consulting her list , she continued , ‘ Six rounds of toast , five boiled eggs with soldiers … ’ |
| 17 | The right hon. Member for Birmingham , Sparkbrook ( Mr. Hattersley ) , who has left the Chamber , seemed to be aspiring to be the next Home Secretary , but he appears to have forgotten that there is a land frontier between the United Kingdom and another nation . |
| 18 | She looked up at him , clearly terrified to be speaking to him , and yet determined to go on . |
| 19 | ‘ The army will concentrate on Quatre Bras , ’ the Duke of Wellington seemed to be speaking to himself as though he groped towards a solution of the problem Napoleon posed , ‘ but we sha n't stop him there , and if so , ’ Wellington 's gaze flicked across the map , then settled , ‘ I must fight him , ’ he paused again to lean over the map for a few final seconds , ‘ here . ’ |
| 20 | Topaz seemed to be speaking to herself . |
| 21 | The latter two did not appear to be speaking to each other , and Sid and Algernon were prowling round each other like lean and hungry panthers waiting for an opportunity to strike . |
| 22 | ‘ Something about you suggests you 've never been deeply involved in a relationship , ’ he mused , seeming almost to be speaking to himself rather than to her . |
| 23 | We 're gon na to be speaking to one or two er expert voices or er deeply interested parties in a moment or twos time . |
| 24 | She refused to give her name because in her job she was not supposed to be speaking to newspapers . |
| 25 | I 'm going to be speaking to people on the little red round table . |
| 26 | They seemed to be pandering to the silliest stereotypes . |
| 27 | This is likely to be damaging to the workers ( who lose pay ) and the firms involved ( who lose output , sales and profits ) . |
| 28 | Proponents of this view tend to see the idea of parental possession as one that is still protected and upheld by the law and by social agencies ; and they believe this state of affairs to be damaging to children , given that parents ' and children 's interests sometimes conflict . |
| 29 | ‘ Exclusive ’ fostering , where the foster-parents tend to treat the child rather as though he [ or she ] were their own or they had adopted him [ or her ] , is thought to be damaging to the child 's identity , as well as hindering restoration to the natural parents . |
| 30 | New owners may have fewer qualms than long-serving managers about taking action of this kind which is likely to be damaging to the company 's employees and the wider host community . |