Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] [conj] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sidled into the room , scarcely daring to breathe lest I harm the recording . |
| 2 | I have been puzzling to establish and I have failed , whether on the fourteenth of January nineteen eighty seven when the Secretary of State wrote the notice of approval , which in confirms his view that forty three per hectare is right , whether the use classes order had then been amended . |
| 3 | We all ended up staying at this inn about five miles down the road , and in the morning I was woken up really early by a phone call from Andrew Love , one of the Memphis Horns , who told me there 'd been an accident , and he was just checking to see if I was in my room . |
| 4 | The next day I was walking to work and I 'd just got as far as the hospital . |
| 5 | And here 's me dying to act and I ca n't be in it because I 'm Jewish . ’ |
| 6 | It was like people were looking at me and guessing my age and looking to see if I had a ring on my finger . |
| 7 | I was just looking to see if I could see those two boys , see what there names , because |
| 8 | I was in a fever of vicarious excitement , looking at street plans of Florence and trying to remember the name of a boy I 'd met in the Boboli Gardens in 1961 , but friends and relations were wanting to know whether I had really vetted the family , whether I 'd like to hear a selection of au pair horror stories , and whether I 'd made good any gaps in my daughter 's domestic skills . |
| 9 | She keeps wanting to know if I play golf . |
| 10 | A little ward-maid appeared at the bedside with an enormous vacuum flask of Georgian tea , refusing to leave until I had downed every drop . |
| 11 | ‘ Good morning , Rickie , ’ I said loudly , wanting to demonstrate that I held no grudge for his behaviour in the night . |
| 12 | I am writing to advise that I have taken over the role of Computer Liaison Officer for the Trading Standards Department . |
| 13 | I am writing to say that I agree , Martina has to be the best player in the world next to Billie Jean King . |
| 14 | As you do n't seem to be responding to telegrams for reasons best known to yourself , I am writing to say that I am not coming home immediately . |
| 15 | But that does n't apa , but what they look like is not going to affect whether I support the Ministerial Committee or not . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm not sure which way it 's going to go when I hit that stage . |
| 17 | colour this is not going to go where I want it to go . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm going to see if I can adapt to that position , ’ said Reid . |
| 19 | Ahm so I 'm going to see if I could set up a baby sitting circle or something like that . |
| 20 | Someone , I thought dimly , was waiting to see if I moved : and if I moved there would be a third thud and my heart would stop . |
| 21 | I 'm going to wait before I change my car until you 've got your own car and then I |
| 22 | A little awkwardly she explained , ‘ I was going to wait until I got home to tell Paul that our engagement was a mistake . |
| 23 | He added : ‘ I did not know he was not going to play until I got here . |
| 24 | I said it 's an application in triplicate I 'm go I 'd erm , I forgotten what it was I was going to buy and I said I wanted to discuss this with you and when we can go and get it |
| 25 | A trumpet arrives offering a million ducats and freedom : I 'm not going to surrender when I know I 'm going to win anyway — or at least get supplies to hang on until something happens to Zacco . |
| 26 | Maybe you only get one chance at a fish like that — a particular fish anyway — and I blew my chance through not planning what I was going to do after I had hooked him . |
| 27 | They whether they 're going to do that I I I do n't really know yet , not really certain . |
| 28 | But erm what I am going to do but I ca n't do it until the spring erm at least until erm has cut the grass for the first time |
| 29 | Then she asked me what I was going to do and I had to say I wanted to go with her . |
| 30 | War 's been declared and all you can think about , all you can talk about is what you 're going to do if I do n't stop seeing Carrie . ’ |