Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] be [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I just been talking to a coupla friends of yours . ’ |
| 2 | I found myself formalizing my speech , as if I too was pretending to be in a drawing-room of forty years before . |
| 3 | ‘ And if you 're worried about the taxpayer , should n't you perhaps be attending to the urgent little matter your sergeant told you about ? ’ |
| 4 | She was right , as it happens , but Scarlet , not being clairvoyant , could n't be expected to know that and resigned herself to yet another evening which would not be wholly enjoyable even had she not been going to the theatre . |
| 5 | Have you ever been speaking to someone , perhaps an attractive member of the opposite sex , when , without thinking , you 've looked down at their mouth ? |
| 6 | She saw her mother 's face draining as if she too were bleeding to death , heard his panting voice . |
| 7 | Why should they not be travelling to cities and places beyond ? |
| 8 | To lose her now was going to be ten times worse than when she had left her at the Foundling Hospital , and she was making herself ill with worry . |
| 9 | ‘ It may take time , but I 'm sure they really are going to be all right . ’ |
| 10 | They really were going to be in pictures . |
| 11 | Will he still be going to Japan . |
| 12 | It always was going to be a mad situation , though , as long as the Government carried on taking the coward 's way out by leaving it to the judges in Luxembourg or the Eurocrats in Brussels to sort things out for them . |
| 13 | I thought it probably was going to be . |
| 14 | It really was going to be quite a race . |
| 15 | And now he too was returning to an empty house . |