Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] and [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have been puzzling to establish and I have failed , whether on the fourteenth of January nineteen eighty seven when the Secretary of State wrote the notice of approval , which in confirms his view that forty three per hectare is right , whether the use classes order had then been amended . |
| 2 | The next day I was walking to work and I 'd just got as far as the hospital . |
| 3 | I presided over a the Criminal Law Revision Committee when we reviewed the law relating to rape and we discovered that there was this myth that women asked for rape . |
| 4 | So I 'm going to promise and you 've got to remind me about this promise that the next Tuesday , that 's when you 're or even Wednesday , but if I give it you Tuesday we can be organized for Wednesday ca n't we ? |
| 5 | I asked if they were going to win and they replied ‘ No ’ that was all ‘ No ’ … |
| 6 | I said it 's an application in triplicate I 'm go I 'd erm , I forgotten what it was I was going to buy and I said I wanted to discuss this with you and when we can go and get it |
| 7 | He told us what he was going to do and we knew some people were going to get killed , but that 's just life . |
| 8 | Then she asked me what I was going to do and I had to say I wanted to go with her . |
| 9 | I I explained to him exactly what I was going to do and he said , okay . |
| 10 | And then she starts demanding to know what they 're going to do and he keeps saying they 're gon na write , they 're gon na write , they 're gon na write . |
| 11 | His chest felt as if it was going to burst and he felt sick and dizzy as he settled down to a steady plod . |
| 12 | Not so much tears but you know how they get sometimes , you think they 're going to cry and they do n't , they just keep going on and on . |
| 13 | I mean I ca n't get my hands covered with flour and egg and stuff if he 's going to cry and I 've got to pick him up , can I ? |
| 14 | ‘ Sara told me my letter was going to arrive and we decided to storm up to Leeds really quickly . |
| 15 | ‘ I had planned where I was going to live and what projects I was going to be involved in . ’ |
| 16 | I became frightened ; I thought she was going to die and I felt sick . |
| 17 | Whatever arrives , but you just do n't know what your going to get , no , it 's flown in er trying to think it comes in four days a week by air , it 's selling at a good price but you do n't know what your going to get and I mean , you could n't , you could n't risk using it somewhere like this , so , it , the chances of selling it . |
| 18 | Eventually it dawned on me that he was n't going to change and I had the choice of either leaving or learning to live with it . |
| 19 | Mr Stewart said that there was an accident waiting to happen and he feared lives would be lost . |
| 20 | What we tend to do is to brief ourselves very thoroughly on vulnerable spots in the world , and in countries where we already have links and where we 've worked before and we know the background because we , we feel we need that and we monitor very carefully certain events which could lead to a disaster , so that when the disaster does happen , like for instance the Ugandan famine of nineteen seventy-nine to eighty-one , we knew exactly when it was going to happen and we knew exactly where the people were , we knew who was going to be affected , we knew why they were affected , we knew where the food stocks were , we knew how long it was going to take to get so many thousand tonnes of food from A to B erm and how many trucks you would need . |
| 21 | But a minute later I could see what was going to happen and I began thinking every which way of how to change the subject . |
| 22 | I have to confess that I had not anticipated the direction that your inquiries were going to take and I feel that my immediate responses were fragmented and unhelpful . |
| 23 | Change the observations you were going to make and you had a new situation , even if the system to be observed remained the same . |
| 24 | Such evidence is now beginning to appear and I believe that my hon. Friends and I will be proved to have been right all along in our predictions of the effect of the student loan scheme . |
| 25 | Already his eyes were beginning to open and he looked up at us . |
| 26 | The sanctions really are beginning to bite and I wonder if Saddam feels that er he may be able to ask a favour or two from the West , in return for the release of these three British men . |
| 27 | It 's rather like er I had a plant the other day , a marigold , and it had been there for about two weeks and it was a lovely plant , and er I noticed it beginning to droop and I thought , oh well it 's finished now , it 's in a pot . |
| 28 | Her voice was beginning to rise and she tried in vain to control it . |
| 29 | Actually there are quite a few infuriating people went out for a drink what are you having to drink and she said oh whatever you 're having |
| 30 | My nose was starting to run and she released one of my hands and put a Chanel-smelling handkerchief into it . |