Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [v-ing] [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , I 'd better be getting down to the bus … |
| 2 | Just to say that we do monitor the numbers going into , to residential care very very closely so we would we would be able to tell sort of reasonably early in the year if things were going erm way of our projections of our predictions and er we would obviously be coming back to you to see to er to change our budgets erm if , if that proved necessary . |
| 3 | This could only be leading up to one thing : when are you going to marry my daughter ? |
| 4 | Although he was nine years old and would soon be moving up to the big school , Frankie was still frightened of the dark . |
| 5 | Brownies who will soon be moving up to Guides have a brand new magazine to look forward to . |
| 6 | Twenty-three-year-old Jill Yate took the opportunity of telling her boss that , although she had had a wonderful year travelling around Europe , she was beginning to feel homesick and would soon be going back to the United States . |
| 7 | ‘ You 'd best be getting down to those hens of the old lady 's , ’ he said to Philip . |
| 8 | You 'd best be getting back to your own house now . ’ |
| 9 | I realised I 'd be doing the eating so it would n't exactly be going up to heaven in a cloud of smoke , but as CJ says , it 's the thought … |
| 10 | Though Mel Brooks 's Spaceballs is principally a take-off of Star Wars , its opening march-past shot of an apparently endless spaceship , ever so slowly passing the camera , all lumps , bumps and ‘ functional ’ excrescences , could just as easily be harking back to 2001 . |
| 11 | No cos they 'll still be popping out to the an will we not ? |
| 12 | ‘ You and I might as well be getting back to Zimmerman 's , Richter , ’ said Moreau as they shuffled out into the street . |
| 13 | Patting the chair beside him , he told Daisy , ‘ If Perdita gets the scholarship , Sukey and I may well be going out to New Zealand at the same time to buy some ponies , so we can keep an eye on her . ’ |
| 14 | The history specialists in the secondary school for the area may also be able to offer advice , especially as pupils from the catchment area will ultimately be going on to the secondary school . |
| 15 | Somehow she suspected she would never be going back to school . |
| 16 | I will definitely be hanging on to the sweat-stained handkerchief that Tom Jones tossed to my mother back in the Sixties . |