Example sentences of "[subord] she be [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where she came from , where she was going to , or what her name was , nobody knows . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ It 's not the lion I fear , ’ she cried , ‘ but the jackal ’ , and although she was referring to Rufio , not Caesar , it was St Ives she confronted . |
| 3 | He kissed her deeply , until she was clinging to his shoulders , and then he drew back . |
| 4 | I do n't know , cos she 's going to a friend 's for . |
| 5 | Cos she was going to the panto thingy . |
| 6 | Erm well if she 's going to be er having an income of about twenty thousand a year after the mortgage is paid I think that would be sufficient . |
| 7 | Erm , I wondered if I should ask her if she 's going to the chinese tomorrow if she wants to drop in on the way home . |
| 8 | They also negotiate with her a ‘ coming home time ’ if she is going to be out later than usual . |
| 9 | ‘ She has never missed a class and she will even telephone if she is going to be two minutes late . |
| 10 | ‘ You looked wonderful , ’ she said , as if she were speaking to a ten-year-old after a school play . |
| 11 | I mean the if she were going to be next week or something , she 'll maybe want to organize most of it herself . |
| 12 | She held out her hand , palm upwards now , and moved her head slowly as she looked at Aggie as if she were talking to a friend who would understand that a cousin of hers had not married beneath her . |
| 13 | She spoke as if she were admitting to a considerable lapse of manners on her part . |
| 14 | Alina stayed where she was , her eyes closed , almost as if she was listening to the silence . |
| 15 | Oh , Jay , I 'd have thought she 'd have done it by now , if she was going to . |
| 16 | If she was going to be in the hospital for one night she would need lots of things to read . |
| 17 | But if she was going to be killed , she had tearfully decided , it would be at her home in Mayfair . |
| 18 | Always rang if she was going to be late , always let them know exactly where she was . |
| 19 | If she was going to be devoured , well then She was going to be devoured . |
| 20 | After two hours she no longer believed that ordinary delays were keeping her daughter , who , according to her mother , was usually very punctilious about telling her if she was going to be late and where she was going as she knew her mother worried . |
| 21 | Her head was swimming so that the gleaming brasses suspended from black overhead beams seemed double-edged , but she was damned , she told herself , if she was going to cave in under Fen 's critical gaze . |
| 22 | She did n't really know if she was going to be able to take any more , and still give a worthwhile performance . |
| 23 | I ca n't smell petrol , and I 'm pretty certain she 'd have blown already if she was going to , but I 'm not prepared to take the chance . |
| 24 | Feeling in no way threatened by Ven , or anybody else , she then began to realise that if she was going to be assertive about anything , then it was about Ven Gajdusek answering one or two questions . |
| 25 | She stared into the camera as if she was talking to it . |
| 26 | I wondered if she was talking to me for a minute . |
| 27 | well she said she , she wants to come and she 'd like to come , but it 'll be end of June , because she 's going to some er Methodist day out somewhere , I do n't |
| 28 | ‘ Was that because she was speaking to someone else ? ’ 'I do not know . ’ |
| 29 | This kind of emphasis on the opposition between , rather than the complementary nature of , the active and contemplative lives was reflected in the patristic interpretation of the story of Martha and Mary ( Luke 10:38 — 42 ) in which Christ excuses Mary 's lack of active help in Martha 's household chores because she was listening to him , on the grounds that she was concentrating on that which was most essential . |
| 30 | She wanted to look good for Dane because she was responding to the age-old instinct of women everywhere who felt the need to dress up and be beautiful for their men . |