Example sentences of "[noun] i be [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did actually get over to work for them in 1968–70 and 1971 , but this story I am referring to was in 1967 when I was just paying a visit and was given a bed for the night in the hostel . |
| 2 | By wishes I am referring to the internal directions and aspirations that people have for their own professional lives and development : their preferences , their ambitions , their chosen career path , their enthusiasms and above all their values . |
| 3 | To rapturous applause he told them : ‘ For the next two-and-a-half hours I am going to work your asses like you 've never been worked before . |
| 4 | That is Stoke I 'm going to Durham . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I was sitting there waiting for the grub to show when Martin Amis came through the open door — you know , the writer I was chatting to in the pub the other night . |
| 7 | It was there all the time but I had turned my back upon it in a sense , so when I got converted , and of course I was listening to the Big Man 's comments on events and I recognized the validity of what he was saying . |
| 8 | This afternoon I am going to a memorial service for a woman who devoted her whole life to caring for others . |
| 9 | my make up and the way I dress reflects the meetings I 'm going to . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ Perhaps falling in the water — ’ Ronni glared at him , bluffing , struggling to get back in control of her emotions ‘ — was n't the nasty experience I was referring to . ’ |
| 12 | I 'm going , for work experience I 'm going to Saxted Ministry up there hopefully to see what it 's like looking after children you know , like a nursery and everything . |
| 13 | I 've found that my perception of acting and movie-making has changed drastically since I hung up my addiction , and I 've finally realized what damage I was doing to my career . |
| 14 | Mr Chairman I am going to be brief within the er triscale and resources we have available to us we may , I think , a reason of what an attempt to get back in current idiom , back to basics . |
| 15 | Thinking I was going to be pulled into some thicket and raped and murdered . |
| 16 | It completely slipped my mind I was going to be accused of theft ! |
| 17 | well er , I 'm , excuse me David I 'm talking to Chris . |
| 18 | As the role of er , business in the community is well at the top of personal agenda , in my job as I B M Personnel Director and Director of Corporate Affairs , the Corporate Affairs bit , er , is the piece I 'm going to be talking about . |
| 19 | ‘ Next term I 'm going to be teaching part of a course on the influence of gender on style , ’ Loretta added , again to little response . |
| 20 | And last Saturday I was speaking to her and Gary and the hotel phoned up and said pipes had burst . |
| 21 | Erm the proposal I 'm referring to is in the view of the county council in the open countryside . |
| 22 | I 'm going to be lively until I get a cat , if I do n't get a cat I 'm going to be lively for ever . |
| 23 | Mountains I 'm going to the mountains . |
| 24 | That 's during the war yes and er , of course this is the first world war I were referring to and erm , the people appreciated this and we used to give it to them like you know . |
| 25 | Just leave it at the moment I 'm trying to here if you ca n't |
| 26 | This is George Roxborough of expense account fame I 'm talking to ? |
| 27 | I could n't cope with never knowing what days I was going to be there — you had to wait till the rota was up to see which days you 'd be working … |
| 28 | The point I 'm coming to is this : on that particular day , I had reason to open the lid of the dustbin . |
| 29 | So the point I 'm making to you is , is this . |
| 30 | Er the point I was making to her was erm in her paper which er was excellent by the way , I forgot to say and I think you put it all very clearly and very nicely , y you , you very nicely set out the basic idea that the consequence and that in principle a male need contribute nothing more than his penis . |