Example sentences of "be [adv] [v-ing] [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parnell was in jail , and the British authorities are desperately holding on to power as support for the Land League accelerates . |
| 2 | Those who are most likely to be affected by the Labour party 's proposals to surcharge savings are those who are just coming up to retirement . |
| 3 | " You 're both going in to school on Monday , are n't you , Martha ? " |
| 4 | We 're now looking forward to teacher appraisal and the opportunities that this will give s school staff to enhance their own future development . |
| 5 | The truth is , she would say , I 'm still looking forward to life beginning . |
| 6 | I 'm almost looking forward to prison ; plenty of dope in there , if I 'm allowed to mix with other inmates . |
| 7 | He was only gone a minute , and when he returned , it was with a couple in their fifties who were holding hands as if they were desperately hanging on to reality . |
| 8 | I made my way through all the guard checkpoints and got to the Hotel Intourist in the middle of town at about 11 o'clock when David and Geoffrey were just siting down to lunch . |
| 9 | They were still driving up to Blood Rock . |
| 10 | We were really looking forward to Christmas together as a family but now everything is ruined . |
| 11 | VINTAGE car enthusiast Gordon Smith , a commissionaire at Barlaston , is eagerly looking forward to running is 1920 Humber Tourer out on the roads again this spring . |
| 12 | No no no she 's just going out to daughter . |
| 13 | I think that 's all I need say by this time the next our next speaker is usually arriving so to sort of develop and not that there 's a real need for it nor am I capable of doing so . |
| 14 | ‘ The use of bed and breakfast is still hovering close to record levels , ’ says Pawson , ‘ It is only through the boom in short-term leasing that boroughs have been able to avoid further increases in hotel placements . ’ |
| 15 | Though turnover leapt from £122.2 million to £239.1 million , the UK market is still responding slowly to recovery , its profits almost halving to £4.1 million . |
| 16 | As well as soaking up the sun , Emma says she 's particularly looking forward to scuba diving and swimming in Stingray City . |
| 17 | Assuming the Daventry nuns have been subject only to the same controls being applied to all other British egg producers , the protest by the United Kingdom Egg Producers ' Association ( Ukepra ) , the only organisation within the UK egg industry not represented among BEIC members , is potentially damaging both to egg consumers and to egg producers . |
| 18 | This might be a way forward for coal power , which is currently losing out to gas both on the pollution and cost fronts . |
| 19 | And she was almost looking forward to death , because then she would be with William and our dear mother in a place of peace . |
| 20 | Wycombe were beaten by Bob Taylor 's 82nd-minute winner , and their disconsolate boss Martin O'Neill said : ‘ I was actually looking forward to extra-time because I was so sure we would win . |