Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] be [adv] [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | My body 's simply reacting to that . ’ |
| 2 | Although he enjoyed ARP work my husband was really fretting to be back with the Navy . |
| 3 | and also the carpet companies in my constituency are now going to Germany to buy up their now redundant carpet making machinery precisely because German companies ca n't compete in the kind of regime that they are have imposed upon them . |
| 4 | ‘ My knee is never going to work the way it should , Seb , but the muscles of my leg are working much better , have you noticed ? |
| 5 | Individual greed dominates Thatcher 's ideology , but there are signs that her crusade is gradually grinding to a halt . |
| 6 | Cal and her mum were hardly speaking to each other . |
| 7 | But it had to be , because every inch of her body was wildly responding to Roman 's bold investigation , the unfamiliar but intoxicating movements of hands and mouth . |
| 8 | This might hamstring the government and its operation was sometimes confusing to foreign observers . |
| 9 | Terry appeared to be having a nervous breakdown ; her mother was foolishly trying to be everything to everybody and only succeeded in adding to the confusion . |
| 10 | City tried hard to get back into it but their task was always going to be maintenance , although Paul Hackett struck a good goal in a move involving several players , to reduce the area on seventy four minutes . |
| 11 | Surgeons could n't save Chloe 's left hand ; her right hand is badly disfigured and her face is literally having to be rebuilt . |
| 12 | ‘ The reports we received on him were excellent and his contract was also coming to an end . |
| 13 | Both Gerrard and his opposite number Bryan Gunn made outstanding saves in a thrilling climax to the game , and Norwich manager Mike Walker feels his side are now returning to their early season form . |
| 14 | Mellowed by two bottles of beer , he was convinced that Hank was telling the truth ; his mind was already going to work considering how to double that forty thousand . |
| 15 | His opponent was clumsily getting to his feet as Fleury snatched a violin from a rack of worm-eaten instruments ( the survivors of an attempt by the Collector to start a symphony orchestra in the cantonment ) , snapped it over his knee and leapt on to the sepoy 's back , at the same time whipping the violin strings tightly round the sepoy 's neck and dragging on them like reins . |
| 16 | By the time he got home his wife was already beginning to be unwell . ’ |
| 17 | In another year , at almost any other time , Adam would have touched his father or more probably his mother for a loan , but in June 1976 his father was barely speaking to him , and his mother would have been scared to go against her husband . |
| 18 | His colleague was already talking to Nigel Cramer , who had spent the night at Scotland Yard . |
| 19 | And Preston knew that William knew what the rest of them had known , or suspected , for some months : that he and his mother were never going to America and that the Master Sergeant was never coming back . |
| 20 | ‘ And unless you 're going to allow it to be your husband — to let him be boss , in fact — your relationship is never going to work . |