Example sentences of "[v-ing] to be [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It enables both countries to augment their own dominant positions within the Community while pretending to be acting for the sake of ‘ Europe ’ . |
| 2 | I hovered over the sideboard pretending to be looking for cutlery and strained my ears to catch the conversation . |
| 3 | is it a contentious issue erm ho how is the criticized , very very short , because you are only going to be writing for about a page , a page and a half , right , so just make sure that every sentence or every other sentence carries a new bit of information and then people say , good , this person knows everything about this subject , full marks and you and er but it 's all too easy to , to focus on one or two aspects of say a question on trade or er er Harrison Todaro model of migration . |
| 4 | ‘ He was told in writing that he was only going to be narrating for five minutes of the video , which is not what happened . |
| 5 | Visiting drivers to , after a few hours on the motorway , are hardly going to be looking for a zebra crossing on such a busy dual carriageway . |
| 6 | Excuse me I 've got not exactly hay-fever but I think I 'm going to be sneezing for a few minutes . |
| 7 | And what I was going to be getting for myself at some stage cos I 'd like to do the rest of the curtains myself . |
| 8 | If you 're going to be asking for a |
| 9 | What about local businesses , are they going to be getting involved , are you going to be asking for involvement from local businesses ? |
| 10 | And I was very worried because the lady that was going to be paying for the job was just down there and if we were n't careful we were going to kill her with the wardrobe . |
| 11 | Who 's going to be playing for Chelsea ? — a northern Ireland international . |
| 12 | Okay , what about the Oxford pair Jim Magilton and Paul Kee , are they going to be playing for Northern Ireland ? |
| 13 | Now her presence at Moorlake was going to be complicating for both of them . |
| 14 | it is n't an indication that they 're going to be applying for any other jobs that come up . |