Example sentences of "[pron] [v-ing] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Am I goin' to be by meself ? ’ asked Dolly in disgust . |
| 2 | Perhaps it was just someone pretending to be Viola for security reasons . |
| 3 | Accordingly , it is not clear what rights are accepted by the transferee ; he may have accepted non-existing rights relying upon fraudulent information in a receipt message transmitted to him by someone pretending to be the carrier . |
| 4 | On the contrary , it was precisely the excessive femininity , laid on with a trowel as it were , that created the effect of someone pretending to be a woman , someone in fact rather desperately hoping to be taken for one . |
| 5 | ROS : Am I pretending to be you , then ? |
| 6 | Then ask — " Who was I pretending to be ? " |
| 7 | What colour 's yours going to be , ? |
| 8 | Am I going to be in it ? ’ |
| 9 | Or am I going to be driving ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Am I going to be expelled ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Am I going to be pleased with it ? ’ |
| 12 | First of all , am I going to be able to persuade you to … ’ |
| 13 | Am I going to be able to get out ? |
| 14 | Am I going to be able to pull free ? |
| 15 | ‘ So am I going to be rewarded with an explanation , ’ he growled , ‘ or are you just going to stand there sipping that damn punch all evening ? ’ |
| 16 | Nor am I going to be the world 's greatest skier . |
| 17 | Am I expecting to be able to know all there is to know about Claude Cohn-Casson ? |
| 18 | Yet , the transferee 's acceptance is based upon the information on the status of the shipment as transmitted by the carrier or by someone purporting to be the carrier in the ‘ receipt message . ’ |
| 19 | Do not even admit someone claiming to be a policeman or woman . |
| 20 | Someone claiming to be in the know told us the other day that the reason DEC president Robert Palmer never showed up at that mammoth Unix strategy briefing session the company put the press and analyst corp through back in February was that he saw the rehearsals and did n't want to be associated with it . |
| 21 | Such was the general level of knowledge , that it was easily possible for a treasure hunter to know more about the subject than someone claiming to be an archaeologist . |
| 22 | After the behaviour yesterday , someone claiming to be spokesman for the Tory group on the environment backed up vocally by these minions , I said to my group today , no more Mr nice guy . |
| 23 | But that never stopped me wanting to be . ’ |
| 24 | One in particular which appeals is touring Yorkshire nightclubs with me pretending to be Eric in a posh suit , mumbling inscrutable French-sounding noises and effortlessly impressing the girls . |
| 25 | Otherwise the ‘ thought ’ that the sea is uniformly blue , which is the logical complement of its appearing to be uniformly blue , could not consistently be entertained along with the thought that the sea is not really blue at all . |
| 26 | Is their going to be lots of escapes and that sort of thing by people who do n't want to go back to their own country |
| 27 | Oh — ’ He now thrust out his hand in a flapping movement , saying , ‘ Do n't look like that , there 's nobody going to be murdered . ’ |
| 28 | Its going to be trumpeting NeXTStep as the alternative to the Microsoft monopoly as though the NeXT hardware did n't exist . |
| 29 | Dolphin admits that its going to be tough marketing two standards to the same set of people . |
| 30 | With both Vines for SCO Unix and UnixWare due in September its going to be an interesting duel . |