Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This afternoon I am going to a memorial service for a woman who devoted her whole life to caring for others . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Thinking I was going to be pulled into some thicket and raped and murdered . |
| 10 | It completely slipped my mind I was going to be accused of theft ! |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | Erm the proposal I 'm referring to is in the view of the county council in the open countryside . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Just leave it at the moment I 'm trying to here if you ca n't |
| 17 | This is George Roxborough of expense account fame I 'm talking to ? |
| 18 | The point I 'm coming to is this : on that particular day , I had reason to open the lid of the dustbin . |
| 19 | So the point I 'm making to you is , is this . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | We are settled on the southern shore , called Belmont for the amenity of the situation , within a stout stockade I am causing to be built . |
| 22 | And by the end of about a month , the guy I was assigned to work with refused to work with me because I was always cracking jokes — he said ‘ I 'm not going to work with you , if you crack one more joke I 'm going to the supervisor . ’ |
| 23 | Yeah , it 's not the heaven I 'm objecting to , it 's , it 's saying the rain of heaven , we we do n't use that kind of structure now . |
| 24 | Yet the other day I was listening to an eminent conductor whose Bruckner is often much praised reaching a triple forte long before what is to me self-evidently the work 's pivotal climax . |
| 25 | The next day I was chatting to friends — Joy and Alan Byne . |
| 26 | Well if I know who they are and I do n't know where they come from I 'll just put who they are day I were talking to them and dash it . |
| 27 | ‘ One day I 'm going to be famous , too , ’ she vowed silently . |
| 28 | ‘ One day I 'm going to be a star . ’ |
| 29 | stuff I was listening to this morning I do n't whether that was one of the things but she 's certainly looking at areas like that . |
| 30 | My order will not succeed as an order unless the person I am talking to is obliged to clean their boots ( condition 3 ) , and I have the right and the power to make them do so ( condition 4 ) . |