Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [adv] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He cut into her thoughts with a question about the ball and she repeated her earlier assurance that she 'd had a successful evening , adding that in all conscience she ought to have been driving back to London to work on some of the stories . |
| 2 | She and Jake had been driving back to Lomond View after accompanying Kirsty back to school when Jake had swivelled round in his seat to inform her , |
| 3 | The bar chart , built up as you go , shows you how you are keeping up to programme and teaches you about the idiosyncrasies of bar charts ! |
| 4 | ‘ You are a right dickhead — ’ I broke it to him gently — ‘ if you think we are driving down to Brixton in that . ’ |
| 5 | Nothing of what I am going to attempt to say should in any way be read as denying the value of psychoanalysis nor as implying that the Church has not been , and continues to be , deeply misogynistic in ways that are damaging both to women and to the Church itself . |
| 6 | Apart from her anxiety over Jennifer 's meeting David again , Rachel had been looking forward to Family Day , but when she arrived for work the next morning the preparations were the furthest thing from her mind . |
| 7 | I 've really been looking forward to flying — it will be my first time on a plane . ’ |
| 8 | You 're sixty-one and have been looking forward to retirement . |
| 9 | Successful and loving couple Jessie and Mark are looking forward to life in their new love-nest . |
| 10 | How do you withstand the the commercial pressures and the emotional pressures , the seventy three of you who are looking forward to Christmas ? |
| 11 | In Britain children are looking forward to Christmas and especially to the presents that Father Christmas brings . |
| 12 | The last time he had seen him the Trollslayer had been wandering off to booze with his fellow outcast Dwarfs . |
| 13 | Or else if you 're driving up to Stranraer it 's a , it 's a good three and half hours ' drive plus your petrol . |
| 14 | I think it spoils it for children it makes them it seems too long for them they 're looking forward to Christmas . |
| 15 | ‘ If you 're going on to Matson , you might find a bit of it useful . |
| 16 | I know they 're going on to security entrance is n't it , where the er they 're going to have their own key or own method of getting in on an intercom . |
| 17 | Erm , so , erm , so I 'll see you soon , and you 're going up to bed now I hear are n't you ? |
| 18 | No yeah , yeah oh yeah , very good , oh yeah I 'm sure you are , jolly good , mm , yeah , fine and there 's some , Paul off half term of course , yeah , yeah oh is he oh very good oh of course you 're going up to Cardiff are n't you ? |
| 19 | yeah you can phone your mum , just say you 're going up to Kilburn |
| 20 | ‘ We 're going up to hospitality for a while . |
| 21 | If you 're going up to London after dinner let us know . |
| 22 | Well we 're going up to unit again . |
| 23 | She phoned this morning and I said I ca n't come and collect it cos I 'm here by myself she said oh I 'll bring it in , that 's alright , no problem but er we 're going away to Gloucester at two o'clock |
| 24 | We 're going over to Michael three months of the year and there was air fare to find and there was holiday money , cos we used to go away with Michael and er so we did n't have a car of our own . |
| 25 | You 're going straight to bed . |
| 26 | you 're going back to nursery go back to nursery ? |
| 27 | ‘ You 're going back to London ? ’ |
| 28 | But it does seem to be again if we 're going back to Government guidance who are justifying extra policies to be brought forward to this alteration , it is a serious omission this alteration that there is no policy which deals with rural affordable housing . |
| 29 | It makes it a rush if you 're going back to school . |
| 30 | ‘ We 're going back to New York City . ’ |