Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [v-ing] to [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it can get awkward when people take things too Literally — you say , ‘ Hello , how are you ? ’ and twenty minutes later you 're still listening to their philosophy of life . |
| 2 | ‘ You 're late returning to your course , ’ Edouard said pleasantly . |
| 3 | Since you will be constantly referring to your picture for colour reference I would recommend keeping it under glass and just taping the sides very firmly to stop the flowers being damaged . |
| 4 | I suppose he does n't want to be seen to be just reacting to your letter he 's obviously started doing these things off his own bat anyway has n't he ? |
| 5 | She did n't like it , but she could n't back away without making it very obvious that her nerve-ends were definitely reacting to his closeness . |
| 6 | The wait until September before she starts another novel is mostly owing to her publicity commitments . |
| 7 | Taking pills or powders for headaches and stomach upsets is only adding to your system 's toxicity . |
| 8 | Now I suppose this is just appealing to my sense of power or something , being able to walk in and take charge and in a minute or two they 've settled down and they 're not panicking because you 've arrived and all their burdens are on your shoulders and they do n't have to worry any more because the doctor 's there … this I find profoundly satisfying as long as I can , in fact , cope with what 's happening . |
| 9 | The government is still sticking to its account , which names 10 dead and a further 37 detained . |
| 10 | That 's what she 's always saying to your mum , ai n't she ? |
| 11 | She 's really listening to you boy . |
| 12 | It is not making a profit , but is now contributing to its operating costs . |
| 13 | It is not making a profit , but is now contributing to its operating costs . |
| 14 | The epoch when the writer photographed the life about him with the mechanics of words redolent of the daguerrotype , is happily drawing to its close . |
| 15 | And it was presumably owing to their encouragement that in the 1540s Crecquillon began to compose chansons and Clemens and Gombert increased their production from a trickle to a flood . |
| 16 | , he was only referring to his fear of Jack . |
| 17 | ‘ No , I … was just going to my room . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I was just talking to my bookie , ’ he said crisply , which was the way he treated money troubles . |
| 19 | ‘ I was just saying to my friend , there she is scribbling again . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I was just saying to my friend Chatterton that it 's really very dangerous to travel on tubes these days . |
| 21 | He was just warming to his task when Reed sold him out . |
| 22 | Mike Laister was still clinging to his point of view . |
| 23 | Then , realising she was still clinging to his arm , she snatched her hand away and moved to the other side of the path . |
| 24 | Her mother announced that she was now going to her lady friend and put grandfather 's money in her bag . |
| 25 | Fernie was now talking to his wife , rapidly , with just a hint of pleading . |
| 26 | The Begum family had rung a pizza delivery service three times on Saturday night when it was late delivering to their home in Heelands in Milton Keynes . |