Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] [pers pn] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MAY 1993 During the Khmelnitski exchange visit to Hunterston great interest was shown in TOP and the Director and Deputy Director of Khmelnitski NPP sat in on a team meeting to see it in action . |
| 2 | DOWNING Street insists that President-elect Bill Clinton is not angry with the British Government and so is not snubbing John Major by refusing to meet him in Washington later this month . |
| 3 | BILL CLINTON has snubbed Premier John Major by refusing to meet him in Washington later this month . |
| 4 | EOS is currently designing a new chassis to provide full mechanical functionality , looking to ship it in June . |
| 5 | We 've been flying here since September , but our wives have regularly sent out Country Living to keep us in touch . |
| 6 | The Birmingham School approach examines spoken discourse , seeking to interpret it in terms of a rank structure and showing that when it is analysed after the event , there is more order and form in it than might at first be apparent . |
| 7 | Syncretistic vision represents the salient visible details , the hero 's Brylcreemed hair and pocketful of peanuts , rather than seeking to explain him in terms of his social and intellectual background . |
| 8 | You get that flatfoot looking to tie you in knots and it 's like being squeezed by coils and coils of a sodding boa constrictor . |
| 9 | Well , how are you going to like us in Canada ? " |
| 10 | Are you going to wear it in P E ? |
| 11 | Pop having to return to Burma for another year with the Governor , and finally my going to meet him in Liverpool when he was sent home at the end of that year very sick , never to return to Burma . |
| 12 | ‘ Are you going to receive him in bed like an empress or downstairs in the drawing-room like an innocent ? ’ |
| 13 | He accused the US of attempting to destabilise him in order to revoke the Panama Canal treaty — signed by the former US president , Jimmy Carter , and the then strongman of Panama , General Omar Torrijos — under which control of the canal passes to Panama in the year 2000 . |
| 14 | Phoebe was not going to devour her in love and thus keep her safe from the great fangs and wraths of Fenna . |
| 15 | I took a picture last night and put a plastic bag on and told the farmer we were n't going to put him in jail here and now . |
| 16 | They 're going to put you in prison . |
| 17 | ‘ Since you claim that your objectives are the same as mine , and that you 're not here to work against me , as I 'd supposed , I 'm going to put you in charge , as it were … make you responsible … ’ |
| 18 | ‘ That 's why Duvall is going to soak it in paraffin and set fire to it if they 're able to in this storm . ’ |
| 19 | The constant references to … to what you believe of me — ’ Maria halted fleetingly , abandoning the pointless once more , and then said the only thing he really needed to hear , simply and directly , without attempting to clothe it in sophistication . |
| 20 | With a slight shake of his head Travis walked inside , turning to keep her in view as she closed the door again . |
| 21 | I 'm going to envelope you in flesh , I 'm going to cover you like an Austrian feather quilt , like an enormous dumpling , you 'll like that , wo n't you ? |
| 22 | One depicts Mary 's first husband , Francis II , three times rushing to welcome her in heaven , and three times finding that he can only embrace a headless body , so that he curses his people ; whereupon the poet exhorts them to forget their own troubles , and unite to destroy England and send its queen to a dreadful death . |
| 23 | ‘ Not if you 're going to dress me in sailor suits , ’ said Perdita , giving a bit of pastry to Drew 's slavering yellow labrador . |
| 24 | Jim Bowen I am I am I 've got a number I 'm going to ring him in minute . |
| 25 | My Adam 's apple swells in my throat , and for a second I think I 'm going to join her in tears . |
| 26 | Pooped on pep pills , has a mother worried sick , and she is going to take me in hand ! |
| 27 | His pals from the Cheltenham club are going to take it in turn to swim alongside as pacemakers and companions . |
| 28 | ‘ So the problem then is that only a little sliver of the tip of my cock was going to make it in range of the footprint of a normal eight and a half by eleven copy . |
| 29 | Either we attack the enemy positions , or they are going to attack us in strength . |
| 30 | I think Lane was attempting to intimidate me in relation to his further questions , answers to which might otherwise be critical of the police , and in this he partly succeeded . |