Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] be [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over one thousand of the three and half thousand Old Somervillians have given or are giving to the Appeal . |
| 2 | ‘ You 'll sort it out , ’ he assured her callously as they entered the building , and she suppressed an urge to hit out at him and tell him exactly what he had done and was doing to her . |
| 3 | This shows you that the colour you have now selected and are going to work on , is the first colour in this palette . |
| 4 | Such that any new example one down here can be seen as being belonging to that set okay ? |
| 5 | Mr Rusk replied that the inference that the United States had decided to abandon the Republic of Korea to its enemies was scarcely warranted in the light of the substantial material aid and political support which we had furnished and were furnishing to that Republic . |
| 6 | He 'd already got it developed and was going to post it to America . |
| 7 | I mean , I know he 's the star and all that , but I 'm damned if-I 'm going to be upstaged , even by him … ’ |
| 8 | Rachel 's opportunity to speak to her parents came on Saturday morning after the community nurse had arrived and was tending to Jennifer in her room and she and her parents were sitting at the kitchen table . |
| 9 | Testing of pupils has been introduced and is continuing to be improved in the light of experiences of its first year of work in spite of the criticisms , which are of method rather than of reason . |
| 10 | Madeleine replied with the news that she had been promoted and was moving to a town not twenty miles away . |