Example sentences of "[pron] [is] [v-ing] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone 's talking to the other girls . |
| 2 | ‘ Yes , she 's going to the Baltic . |
| 3 | ‘ And she 's going to the big party on Saturday ’ |
| 4 | She is talking to the Prime Minister . |
| 5 | Mr David Heathcoat-Amory , a former junior Energy Minister , has been appointed deputy chief whip by Mr Major , succeeding Mr Alastair Goodlad who is going to the Foreign Office . |
| 6 | One ambiguity which runs through most definitions , as it does with the word ‘ course ’ , is whether one is referring to the total package of studies or only one element in it ; thus one can speak of the undergraduate curriculum or the history curriculum . |
| 7 | So Steve and myself are er have done a done a bid that we should know today whether or not it 's going to the main group , and if it goes to the main group , there 's a great chance it 'll be accepted . |
| 8 | Now it 's going to the main menu . |
| 9 | Thus when the chimpanzee , supplied in the laboratory with two boxes and a stick to reach a suspended bunch of bananas , stops leaping up and trying the reach them with its hands and instead puts one box on top of the other , climbs up and dislodges the bananas with the stick , it is using to the full its basic ability to suppress the automatic response — leaping up — in favour of the intelligent one — climbing up and reaching with the stick . |
| 10 | A large proportion of the advertising in these markets , is , inevitably , in some sense , ‘ reminder ’ advertising — which , again , should not need much in the way of information , since it is preaching to the converted . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , one reason why Mr Hammer 's message has been received so eagerly is that , to a large extent , he is preaching to the converted . |
| 12 | inserting common paragraphs , for example if half the students make the same mistake , it is useful for the marker to prepare a paragraph explaining the error , and to paste this into each of the documents he is returning to the errant students . |
| 13 | At the moment they 're leading by three goals to two as now plays it away to this right hand side to Stewart , makes a charge forward , he 's taking on Chris , he 's getting to the right edge of the penalty area , he crosses low with his right boot , chance for in the area , he turned quickly on it but he blasted the t the shot over the top of the bar . |
| 14 | Now th that , that if you like is , is the new strategy that he 's putting to the Communist Party and he 's saying look , you should recognize this is going on , there is a , there , there is a , a growing class basis to this and we must lead it because it is the way forward . |
| 15 | Well he 's talking to the good man , is n't he . |
| 16 | So Jesus when he sees their situation , he 's not concerned by the storm by the way , he 's not put out by that because he knows he 's going to the other side , but for the sake of them he gets up and he speaks the word , Jesus he said , peace . |
| 17 | Next year he 's going to the Royal College of Music . |
| 18 | Let's try following ‘ happy about ’ , and see if he 's going to the same address . |
| 19 | And it says that 's what 's happening to the poorest communities , the poorest countries in the Third World . |
| 20 | What 's happening to the local government this time of the democracy and they have been savagely attacked savagely attacked at the locally controlled Labour councils . |
| 21 | According to Lorraine Thorne of the Environmental Investigation Agency : " We just do n't know what 's happening to the marine ecosystem of the Antarctic . |
| 22 | and try and find out what they want and what 's happening to the social services and y you know what they think about er what they 'd , what skills they 'd like you to have and the sort of experience you need and so on . |
| 23 | If an old man thinks so , what is happening to the young ? |
| 24 | In order to understand what is happening in that country we have to see its internal developments as the effects of what is happening to the international economy as a whole . |
| 25 | Unless or until we codify this agenda and give it meaning through our cooperative efforts , those of us who care about what is happening to the other animals will remain individual , separate gears that do not mesh . |
| 26 | Rather , I conclude by inviting all of us whose activism is shaped by our concern for what is happening to the other animals to make a renewed , conscientious , patient and determined effort to come together and forge a common agenda , even as we work , both as individuals and organisations , on projects that are uniquely our own . |
| 27 | I am sorry that the hon. Gentleman can not see the broader picture of what is happening to the other units and that it is not an unfair arrangement . |
| 28 | I suspect that too few Scots are aware of what is happening to the latter . |
| 29 | Too many people know what is happening to the Polish and the Slavs and to the Jews and the dissenters . |
| 30 | However , she said : ‘ The caring 90s is a current media theme , and has more to do with caring about what is happening to the British society and what can be done about it , than about spending more to underpin the disadvantaged and the dependent . ’ |