Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the threat of relegation looming again , the loss of the ground , and the millstone around my neck of a team of asthmatic pine martens with the collective brain power of a kiwi fruit , the pressures on me are building to a frightening pitch . |
| 2 | Most of them are sticking to a policy , adopted during the Falklands war , of not stocking war games until the war is over . |
| 3 | The majority of businesses have less than ten employees and an increasing number of them are turning to IT as a low cost way to improve productivity and recordkeeping . |
| 4 | In Ireland a party that puts up several candidates in a constituency will easily predict which of them are going to be elected , which may and which wo n't . |
| 5 | And g m quite a lot of them are going to be dependent on rented accommodation and in particular , well both council cou both , both council rented accommodation and private rented accommodation . |
| 6 | A discussion in our house on ( let's say ) the necessity of buying a new fridge will move swiftly to the education system ( via the rival claim of school fees to the purchase of the fridge ) and whether a move to another area might obviate the need for paying them , taking in a quick discourse on the immorality of contributing to the divisive education system in this country anyway ; this will lead to the if-we-sold-our-suburban-villa-we-could-buy-a-Georgian-manor-house-in-the-country conversation ; which will in its turn move on quite quickly to the horrors of British Rail and the greatly increased subjection to them that such a move would entail ; then we get to leaving all our friends behind , and to debating whether having them to stay at the weekends would not be perfectly satisfactory ; which will remind us that two or more of them are coming to dinner that very night and we 'd better get down to the off-licence ; then it 's shall-we-get-Muscadet-or-the-Chardonnay- again and for-heaven's-sake-get-enough which will get us back to the fridge , on account of last time we got the Chardonnay , I did n't put it in it soon enough . |
| 7 | This is where I been going to . |
| 8 | Lord Chatwin and I are going to be married . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Because that 's what Annie and I are going to be . |
| 10 | ‘ If you know where Craig is you must tell me , do n't you understand , he and I are going to be married , I must see him . ’ |
| 11 | Ann Tracy and I are going to Mull this summer . |
| 12 | Mary saw the scribbled-over envelope , smiled and said , " Reggie and I are going to the Greenpeace demo tomorrow afternoon . " |
| 13 | For the next few months Mr and I are going to home in on a theme for these services . |
| 14 | ‘ You and I are going to Los Alamos for medical tests . |
| 15 | André and I are going to Monaco for the evening . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ You and I are going to be strong against temptation . |
| 17 | ‘ Maria Luisa and I are going to be married ! ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Mandy , I suppose if you and I are going to be related there 's no hope at all I 'm ever going to be able to tamp down that irrepressible side of yours , is there ? ’ |
| 19 | Well I 'm going to find David and I are going to but the two boys pyjamas and the two girls night shirts so we thought if you buys them all a pair of slippers . |
| 20 | Firstly , I am reporting to you that there has been in the current year additional efficiency savings over and above those that previously anticipated er at the level of two hundred thousand pounds and so we are assuming in the budget erm that those can continue into ninety four , five and thereafter , and then we 'll see the resolutions have been amended to take that into account and the text of the erratum sheet explains how that 's been done . |
| 21 | As I am drawing to a close , as I can find no further connections or criticisms of these two books however obvious or unobvious they may be , I would like to leave you with an appropriate quote from one of my books . |
| 22 | Hi , this is the first time I am posting to the list . |
| 23 | I think I am beginning to be very much afraid of what Raynor is taking me to . |
| 24 | As I watch , I am quickening to the single thought that this man , for these few moments , is probably running faster than any other man one earth . |
| 25 | It would be interesting to know whether Petrey really does hold the views I am attributing to him , and whether he thinks that speech act theories of semantics are therefore based on a fundamental error . |
| 26 | Those who pursue comparisons of the kind I am referring to are likely to be impressed by the staying-power of a literary preoccupation to which a variety of temperaments and compulsions has been attracted , and could well be inclined to believe that Pechorin 's duel and indifference may have been among the precedents that weighed , a century later , with a woman bent on contriving her appointment with destiny . |
| 27 | But the disobedience I am referring to here is of a very particular kind . |
| 28 | I am referring to Dr. Bach Flower Remedies , a mixed distillation of which I had been prescribed and acquired at Bristol . |
| 29 | I am referring to a level of promiscuity which even the most liberal heterosexual would regard as immoral . |
| 30 | When I refer to the ‘ Popular Purgatory ’ I am referring to the Purgatory which is most widely known — the place referred to in Roman Catholic teaching and which is said to be arrived at after death . |