Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [be] [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jerry refuses with zest ; he has obviously been springing to his own defence for many a long year . |
| 2 | The right hon. Gentleman has not been listening to his hon. Friends . |
| 3 | So far we have only considered diversification within a national market where the stock market and the shares listed therein are going to be affected by the same macro- and microeconomic forces and developments . |
| 4 | You see I 've got with me in the studio here Stan Bowes , who 's the head of marketing for the Thames and Chilterns Tourist Board , and Stan has just been explaining to us that there is this campaign to encourage people to take holidays in this country . |
| 5 | Astra has already been talking to officials of the Commons about its planned service , based on the American C-Span cable network , which performs a similar function . |
| 6 | McDunn nods slowly , slightly , a distant look in his eyes like he 's not really nodding at what I 've just told him ; has n't been listening to a word I 've said , in fact . |
| 7 | She has n't been coming to school , Mrs Day . |
| 8 | I mean how can you justify talking to her about that when the efficiency is improved since she has n't been talking to people ? |
| 9 | He has n't been talking to anybody has he ? |
| 10 | This has indeed been happening to the USA , and much of the capital funds moving to the USA have come from Japan . |
| 11 | Section 2.2 explores different definitions of deindustrialization , looking at each of them in the context of data on what has actually been happening to manufacturing in this country over recent decades . |
| 12 | Erm , and has recently been going to dress-making classes , but she nothing to anybody at work . |
| 13 | The vogue for dressing down is getting to the upmarket emporia . |
| 14 | We 'd all been listening to things like reggae and Spanish music , and when we got together to rehearse , we 'd be playing all kinds of crazy stuff before we settled down to get serious . ’ |
| 15 | I 'd just been talking to the guard , twelve hour shifts , sixty hours a week and he ca n't even have any time off for tea breaks or meal breaks . |
| 16 | ‘ The situation has been eased slightly for my parents since a community nurse has been visiting Jennifer , but I must admit I 'd rapidly been coming to the conclusion that something else would be needed very soon . |
| 17 | Some of the barriers I 've built up are going to be chipped away and it 's only going to take one incident and I 'm going to be stuffed . |
| 18 | And let's face it , Focus Now is going to be different . ’ |
| 19 | In those few minutes she 'd simply been reacting to the mood he 'd created so skilfully . |
| 20 | But it says tomorrow 's going to be fine . |
| 21 | Whichever strategy is adopted there are going to be problems and it is important to be tuned into them when trying to interpret research in psychobiology . |
| 22 | ‘ What worries me most , ’ she said , ‘ is what all this rushing around is doing to Zachary . |
| 23 | With adults I tend to assume there are going to be layers or stages in the case which a repeated LM will uncover . |
| 24 | " Unless it rains , I do n't believe there are going to be any animals left in the low veld by September " , he said . |
| 25 | There 'd been neither sight nor sound of James since that fateful day and no doubt he had forgotten her as quickly as he had taken her , but he must be told there was going to be a child . |
| 26 | Getting back was going to be a problem . |
| 27 | The Judge held the air of someone very world-weary , and this was accurate to some extent , as he had just re-read the case notes , and sensed today was going to be another long day . |
| 28 | The majority of our assignment I would think now are getting to the resale position . |
| 29 | What Bukharin was doing here was pointing to the unity , as well as the contradiction , within the commodity-socialist economy — as Preobrazhensky called it . |
| 30 | You know like for example if I said come on chaps thank you , erm what you 're actually doing then is confessing to me that you have n't finish off Chapter ten questions . |