Example sentences of "i [be] [verb] to be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Mandy , I suppose if you and I are going to be related there 's no hope at all I 'm ever going to be able to tamp down that irrepressible side of yours , is there ? ’ |
| 2 | I am delighted that he has chosen to introduce a Bill on nurse prescribing and I am honoured to be associated with it as one of its sponsors . |
| 3 | ‘ I am determined to be involved for my country and my own career satisfaction . |
| 4 | We are settled on the southern shore , called Belmont for the amenity of the situation , within a stout stockade I am causing to be built . |
| 5 | Although my brief has been to examine animal communication , I am bound to be asked whether the Darwinian approach can add anything to understanding the connections between what animals do and what we do . |
| 6 | She was a mutilated machine , and besides she has already forgotten him : I am meant to be comforted by that ? |
| 7 | I am waiting to be bathed in film . |
| 8 | If I am an undergraduate , the two basic areas of quantum mechanics and X-ray crystallography are not covered and I wonder whether I am going to be examined on chemistry and human psychology ? |
| 9 | I should be feeling disloyal to Fergus , I should certainly be wondering if what I am doing is right , and if I am going to be hurt . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm hoping to be changed back before I get used to it , ’ she said ( with considerable spirit , bearing in mind how hopeless she felt ) . |
| 11 | I 'm trying to be relaxed like Frank Edwards [ also of Repton ] and get a lazy jab like his . ’ |
| 12 | I 'm looking to be pushing because I , I I might ask them to get speakers in etcetera . |
| 13 | is taking his seat , I 'm causing to be handed out this plan . |
| 14 | ‘ Now sor , I 'm goin' to be tellin' yer sometin' . |
| 15 | So I 'm bound to be recognised . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm bound to be taken for the chauffeur , ’ he laughed out , mispronouncing the word with relish but he was not corrected as he hoped . |
| 17 | ‘ I tell thee I ai n't got a bleedin' farthing and even if I had I 'm expected to be working . |
| 18 | Cos I 'm going to be getting it mixed in future now . |
| 19 | Anyway , Jules , it would be silly to form attachments here in Paris when I 'm going to be living in London . ’ |
| 20 | That 's because I 'm going to be defeated ! ’ |
| 21 | I 'm going to be engaged at Christmas and married next year . |
| 22 | And if I 'm going to be leafleting thousands of people in conferences , or at least hundreds , |
| 23 | And now it looks as though I 'm going to be tied up with television work pretty regularly . ’ |
| 24 | I 'm going to be tied up with the cops , I expect . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I can see I 'm going to be kept fairly busy ! ’ |
| 26 | Look , I 'm going to be snarled up in another meeting in a few minutes . |
| 27 | I 'm going to be deleting an application called Legato ; not because I hate it , but just as a demonstration . |
| 28 | I 'm going to be drinking cold coffee here are n't I ? |
| 29 | ‘ Next term I 'm going to be teaching part of a course on the influence of gender on style , ’ Loretta added , again to little response . |
| 30 | Excuse me I 've got not exactly hay-fever but I think I 'm going to be sneezing for a few minutes . |