Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [be] [adv] [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This game was a little disheartening , not so much because of the disciplinary problem , but because it showed all too clearly that few if any of them were actually listening to what I was saying . |
| 2 | ‘ Some of them were still standing to attention as they fell . |
| 3 | ‘ Meaning that any friend of mine is automatically going to be pretentious ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't know if that shifty old man of mine is ever goin' to be a credit to 'is fam'ly ; I do n't know there 's any man that can spend more time doin' nothing than Archie can . |
| 5 | Some of these residents have lived in this road particularly all their lives and they 've suffered the traumas of living next to a pit and are absolutely horrified er at the prospects of what is basically going to be a scrap yard . |
| 6 | Stalingrad was being interpreted as the consequence of what was now becoming to be widely viewed as Hitler 's catastrophic policy and leadership . |
| 7 | We see this in the increasing influence of the new Ecology Movement , in the power of the Gaia theory , in the efforts of established religions to come to terms with their part in dealing with these issues ; and much more humbly , but much more universally , we see it in the increased attention that so many of us are now paying to the ways we celebrate the beauty and diversity of life on Earth . |
| 8 | I 've a nasty feeling a profiteering wheeler-dealer like me is never going to be innocent enough for your high-minded ideology … ’ |
| 9 | ‘ An affair with you is never going to be enough for me . ’ |
| 10 | Since sharing a room with her was clearly going to be more bearable if Miss Beard could suppose Ruth to be a cut above the other servants , Ruth humoured her . |
| 11 | That his time with us is fast coming to an end . |
| 12 | ‘ But , if you feel the need to walk for miles in what is soon going to be very hot sun without any idea of your destination — ’ he threw her a dismissive look ‘ — well , then , that 's up to you . ’ |
| 13 | Finally , the strategies for change can be found in an analysis of what has gone before and a cultural intervention in what is socially happening to disabled people . |
| 14 | ‘ If you are on £3,000 a week with a mercedes and a lovely wife to put the tea on you are naturally going to be softer than the sportsmen who has nothing . |
| 15 | Furthermore , what was happening to us was also happening to others , notably the Germans , and could of course happen to anyone . |
| 16 | ‘ Carol Barratt is going to be looked after for the rest of her life , and looked after well , whereas life for us is never going to be the same again . ’ |