Example sentences of "[be] [adv prt] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 're down to go to the dentist Friday , ’ Paul says . |
| 2 | Erm that erm about erm me father coming down from the top of the ah ah well , this was January the thirty first , nineteen hundred and sixteen and er me father had been up to look after the horses , pigs etc you know , and about eight o'clock he came back and said to my mother that there was a big fire out at Wensbury Me mother and all of us went up there , and er we could see these blazing buildings over there , and er mother immediately said that 's no fire , that 's the Zeppelin 's , and er that 's what it turned out to be , of course . |
| 3 | So it will be back to work on the Algarve this week when Payne bids to win the Portuguese Open , a tournament that provided Montgomerie with his first success in 1989 . |
| 4 | Anything else ? because I 'm a , I 'm about to quit on the monthly calendar cards and monthly planning . |
| 5 | I 'm about to get on the phone as well |
| 6 | However , things could be about to change with the new indoor cricket school and multi-sports centre becoming fully operational and revenue generating . |
| 7 | She asked the question half fearfully , almost afraid at what she might be about to hear after the event of the previous day . |
| 8 | However , he would not have been around to negotiate with the RAF and would have had to rely on a tenuous radio link with the LRDG main base . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's all very exciting for me at the moment , here I am about to go around the world for the first time , seeing cities like New York , which I have always dreamed of seeing . |
| 10 | I am about to retire to the breakfast parlour with Mr Beckenham and Miss Merchiston . |
| 11 | The figures that I am about to present to the House will embarrass the Leader of the House , but I shall get them on the record none the less . |
| 12 | The soundtrack is industrial dance , the punters the kind of alternative/college crowd who presumably are about to go for The Shamen in a big way . |
| 13 | Where we should expect to match France and Germany for industrial growth , we are about to fall below the levels of Greece and Portugal ’ . |
| 14 | Having just metaphorically done in front of the vicar , small children and grandparents what they are about to do in the bridal suite , they offer everyone a small , naughty slice . |
| 15 | I remember that we got round to talking about historical hindsight , or the kind of attitude to which André Maurois ( to whom I was to introduce Eliot years later ) referred when he imagined a man saying ‘ Gentlemen , we are about to enter upon the Middle Ages ’ . |
| 16 | But this foursome , BETTIE SERVEERT , are about to sweep through the dusty old indie charts with the ease of Mary Poppins in full flow . |
| 17 | Digital cordless telephone services — telepoint — are about to start in the UK , and low cost personal communications networks are due to begin in 1992 or 1993 . |
| 18 | When they were about to leave for the restaurant , a man standing near the bar came up to Kevin and said , ‘ If ye 're wanting a place here , the Half House is on the market . ’ |
| 19 | It transpired that the previous day he had been in Liverpool and given an interview to the Daily Telegraph which had been interpreted to mean that we were about to call in the troops . |
| 20 | The boys were about to go into the building again after their first successful looting when suddenly somebody shouted : ‘ I Tedeschi , i Tedeschi arrivano ! ’ |
| 21 | Before this game we were told that this was the poorest Irish team in memory , that Irish rugby was in the doldrums and that the swashbuckling French were about to turn on the after-burners and skyrocket into the stratosphere . |
| 22 | The accident happened just as the duo were about to turn into the hairpin before the pits straight on the Adelaide street circuit . |
| 23 | He had been dreaming that he and his friend Aidan Lynch were on Death Row in some American prison and they were about to die in the electric chair . |
| 24 | She 'd never seen either of us in a suit before — we were running them in , checking for labels we 'd missed and so on — and we had stood on her doorstep as if we were about to launch into the ‘ Have you heard the Good News … ’ routine . |
| 25 | Reggane was on the route from Oran , and we were about to transfer to the route from Algiers , along a one hundred and eighty mile dog-leg . |
| 26 | Just as we were about to paddle along the once road we heard a shout from Matthew 's mum for us to go and collect her . |
| 27 | In the bottom of the pit there is a corresponding calm — it is the still centre of the spiral — and an odd sense of hollowness , as if you were about to drop into the deeps of the earth 's psyche ( and of your own ) like a stone down a mineshaft . |
| 28 | The were about to select from the sweet trolley when , at a nod from his mother , the proprietor dimmed the houselights and a young waitress brought in a surprise birthday cake , the reflection from the candles throwing her face into warm relief . |
| 29 | Benjamin gripped my wrist and nodded but , just as we were about to step into the boat , he clapped his hands together . |
| 30 | Gary is now leading the series with three rounds to go … this week he 's off to race for the European Championship in Holland … |