Example sentences of "[pers pn] 's [verb] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your wife 's very tired — she 's bound to be weak , after losing so much blood — but you can see her for a few minutes . ’ |
| 2 | You say you do n't want Mo to be hurt , but she 's bound to be if this goes on . ’ |
| 3 | But she 's bound to be rather boring , so they wo n't want to stay all that long . ’ |
| 4 | She 's bound to be fussing with something or other when we arrive , and we 'll be twiddling our thumbs for twenty minutes before she condescends to appear . ’ |
| 5 | We do n't want Americans to think we are n't hospitable , and besides , she 's bound to be lying there thinking of sex , poor little thing , and it 'll be all wet and hairy , and so deliciously — ’ |
| 6 | She 's bound to be interested . |
| 7 | She 's bound to be very worried about you . ’ |
| 8 | Oh she 's bound to be |
| 9 | Turns out , Deardrie , she 's applied to be an astronaut — I remember seeing the advert , asking for people to go to the moon — it 's not that I 'm jealous , but why did n't she ask me first ? |
| 10 | Now she 's training to be a teacher . |
| 11 | ‘ She 's begun to be difficult about going to bed , so I let her sleep there . ’ |
| 12 | TV funnygirl Pamela Stephenson demonstrates that she 's determined to be the star of this show . |
| 13 | And she 's , that was tonight she said she 's hoping to be home Thursday . |
| 14 | She 's beginning to be quite a young woman . |
| 15 | ‘ You realize she 's trying to be unbearable so that your husband sees they get a move on with her house ? ’ |
| 16 | She 's trying to be very nice and she 's really fuming Have you er finished with your tea ? |
| 17 | Yes , she 's trying to be nosy . |
| 18 | This points to Eleanor of Provence , Edward 's mother and consort of Henry III , whose reputation is as bad as that of Eleanor of Castile is good — though not for David Gordon , who seems to think that because she 's said to be ‘ of Provence ’ , this puts her above suspicion . |
| 19 | She 's said to be the daughter of a English general and apparently very beautiful … a good bit younger than him , of course . ’ |
| 20 | But she 's said to be brave , tough , and very bright . ’ |
| 21 | She 's said to be in a great state of shock . |
| 22 | Her owner claims she probably wants to exercise to shed a few ounces.Pets should be safe as Thumper s not been trained to hunt and she 's refused to be tempted down with titbits . |
| 23 | ‘ I think she 's meant to be Echo . ’ |
| 24 | I mean it 's the last fortnight she 's meant to be studying and she 's been out with her boyfriends and |
| 25 | And she 's meant to be here . |
| 26 | Well she 's meant to be a real bitch anyway . |
| 27 | But Jill is very talented , she 's going to be really big once she gets her music together . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Oh , when our daughter grows up , she 's going to be a barrister ’ , ’ she added . |
| 29 | A second male said , ‘ Women who start families and continue with families do n't appear to go through the system … a woman has to decide that she 's going to be a career-based woman and not a family-based woman . |
| 30 | ‘ Why do n't you give our young friend a hand with her backpack ? — After all , she 's going to be lugging it all round Madrid this afternoon . ’ |