Example sentences of "[v-ing] to be [vb pp] at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I managed to get clear at Metropole but then Mick came up beside me at the Juniper chicane but I was n't going to be beaten at this stage and I just managed to hold on . ’ |
| 2 | He 's talking about amniocentesis as well , which should be done next week if it 's going to be done at all . ’ |
| 3 | There is also the pressure of time , when he knows there is a long list of cases still waiting to be tried at that particular circuit . |
| 4 | Indeed , this version of English was now beginning to be justified at some provincial universities on grounds of the kind proposed by Reid . |
| 5 | Tensely they waited , expecting to be discovered at any moment . |
| 6 | They lay up all the following day , expecting to be attacked at any moment , but no enemy showed up . |
| 7 | Unlike many jobs , housework can often be done in a very short space of time without actually failing to be done at all . |