Example sentences of "be [prep] [v-ing] [to-vb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is frustrating as a producer , when you have so many ideas that are worth trying to make it better . ’ |
| 2 | Many people think it is hard to assess whether a building is worth preserving and ask what the criteria are for trying to save it . |
| 3 | And from now on , he will be as fervently fanatical in his promulgation of Nazarean thought as he has hitherto been in trying to suppress it . |
| 4 | She spent her rare afternoons off visiting the sights of Paris , or lying in the Luxembourg Gardens alone , reading Dostoevsky and Sartre and Camus , and sending out contradictory messages to idle young men who wondered if it would be worth trying to pick her up . |
| 5 | It has to be admitted that there are problems with trying to state what data are without appearing to stipulate their character in advance . |
| 6 | I can understand how upset you were after expecting to make your home with her . |
| 7 | ‘ I was hoping you would show me how friendly we were by coming to get me . ’ |
| 8 | if it 's worth trying to hit anything I was on top of him |
| 9 | So erm that 's , if you 're , if you 're getting behind on that it 's worth trying to do something about it soonish before you get too far behind to manage to catch up |
| 10 | It is about trying to outfox your opponent . |
| 11 | If the water is very low when you are constructing your map it is worth trying to imagine what the water will be like during a winter flood . |
| 12 | It 's about trying to understand what is going on , almost through the eyes of the participants themselves . |
| 13 | Abbott offers the disarming creative theory : ‘ It 's about trying to find something to persuade someone . ’ |
| 14 | We 're out to pass you really , but we we wo n't unless it 's worth it , but erm the emphasis is on trying to find something there to give a mark to sort of thing rather than the other way around . |
| 15 | Here the focus often , but not always , turns to the woman , since it is by attempting to discredit her that the majority of men accused of sex crimes try to save themselves . |
| 16 | He proved how difficult this feat is by failing to repeat it at the second time of asking . |
| 17 | For one way of denying someone the respect to which he is entitled is by failing to treat him as an autonomous agent , for example , by unreasonably restricting the range of alternative courses of action from which he can choose . |
| 18 | He gaily continued to offend and reoffend , to the point where the police wondered whether it was worth bothering to pick him up . |