Example sentences of "the [noun] [pron] [be] [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was sitting there waiting for the grub to show when Martin Amis came through the open door — you know , the writer I was chatting to in the pub the other night . |
| 2 | I wonder which part of the sentence he is referring to . |
| 3 | The summer conversations in Kissingen , the presence in St Petersburg of the Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaevich , the greater enthusiasm for reform of Lanskoi at the Ministry of Internal Affairs — all these undoubtedly altered the balance of opinion to which he was exposed and made him more susceptible to reformist sentiments ; but he may also have been naive enough to believe that the gentry at large would follow the example of the north-westerners and welcome the measure he was putting to them . |
| 4 | Coun David Messham said the money which was going to be used on the consultation process would be better spent advertising and promoting the outstations . |
| 5 | It would be interesting to know whether Petrey really does hold the views I am attributing to him , and whether he thinks that speech act theories of semantics are therefore based on a fundamental error . |
| 6 | Most recently , the controversy surrounding the use of Chlorofluorocarbons ( CFC 's ) and the damage they are doing to the Ozone layer has received a great deal of publicity . |
| 7 | I challenged him with all the dishonesty he had shown and all the damage he was doing to the paper . |
| 8 | Th the decision you were putting to us though Trevor , was whether we put somebody on extra duty payment ? |
| 9 | Then , decide on the times you are going to work in your room . |
| 10 | It 's often easier for children if you make the choice on their behalf , and it saves time if they know the groups they 're going to work in before they get to the hall or drama space . |
| 11 | ‘ I thought you might be a poacher rather than the gamekeeper you were pretending to be . |
| 12 | Donna remembered with sorrow the number of humiliations she had endured from her in school , and the thought of exposing the contents of the parcel she was carrying to such a merciless judge unnerved her . |
| 13 | The driver everyone is tipping to be a future world champion … |
| 14 | my make up and the way I dress reflects the meetings I 'm going to . |
| 15 | Those who pursue comparisons of the kind I am referring to are likely to be impressed by the staying-power of a literary preoccupation to which a variety of temperaments and compulsions has been attracted , and could well be inclined to believe that Pechorin 's duel and indifference may have been among the precedents that weighed , a century later , with a woman bent on contriving her appointment with destiny . |
| 16 | And the other thing is that it 's er a wide syllabus is fine as long as you 're not expected to go in any depth , but you 're expected to go sort of both , a broad syllabus and into a little bit of depth more than perhaps erm I mean in effect I mean you 're not far off of covering A level psychology at this at tha the level we 're going to . |
| 17 | On the mat down there look , with the wool he 's going to sleep . |
| 18 | If only those people realised the harm they are doing to their health by not allowing themselves to show what they really feel — sometimes not even admitting those feelings to themselves — perhaps they would unbend a little . |
| 19 | Even in the compartment he was explaining to the other half dozen men who had no option but to listen , how the New York Giants would have taken both of them on , one after another , and still have had time to take on the Chicago White Soxs as well . |
| 20 | It is the future you are walking to . |
| 21 | We live in a technological age , and there are going to be major changes without a doubt , we 've all seen them over the past few decades , and into the future there are going to be many major changes . |
| 22 | Even the pods he was giving to the pigs , he would have liked to have eaten himself . |
| 23 | Hand shakes and hugs for the fans who are going to Wembley . |
| 24 | They must have been filled in at the bank either by Mr Hatton himself or else by the cashier who was attending to him . ’ |
| 25 | As the role of er , business in the community is well at the top of personal agenda , in my job as I B M Personnel Director and Director of Corporate Affairs , the Corporate Affairs bit , er , is the piece I 'm going to be talking about . |
| 26 | There are some being found , but not stable ones erm we know all the elements which are going to be stable on the planet earth as we know it . |
| 27 | All this will build up muscle , but not the right muscle for the work he is going to be asked to do . |
| 28 | I forgot to say that the guerrilla who was pretending to be a madman had let Sis . |
| 29 | The part a the part of the girl who 's going to school . |
| 30 | During the journey we were informed that tomorrow , we were going to go and see the Queen who was coming to the small town to visit the hospital . |