Example sentences of "[verb] be preparing [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The company has been preparing to go public , a process the suit could have adversely affected , while at the same time it was believed to be object of some takeover desires by Unix System Laboratories ( UX No 396 ) . |
| 2 | By this time , if not before , he must have been preparing to overthrow Olaf of Norway . |
| 3 | Membership of what was described as an alternative cabinet , claimed to have been preparing to take power forcibly if the unrest of early July caused the government to fall , was revealed in Parliament on July 18 by an assistant minister . |
| 4 | Mrs Frizzell had been feeling that victory in this verbal exchange was hers and had been preparing to leave the garden . |
| 5 | Narasimhan Ram , associate editor of The Hindu , a Madras-based daily , said at a press conference that it had been preparing to publish documents about the £550m Bofors contract to supply the Indian army with 155mm howitzers . |
| 6 | On a distant Tory bench Cranley Onslow , the chairman of the backbench 1922 Committee , had been preparing to intervene . |
| 7 | Today staff have been preparing to welcome 2 young men whom they thought they might never see again . |