Example sentences of "be [v-ing] to [noun sg] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We are going to back each of them because we are going to make their fight to keep their jobs our fight to keep Scotland 's industry . ’ |
| 2 | A discussion in our house on ( let's say ) the necessity of buying a new fridge will move swiftly to the education system ( via the rival claim of school fees to the purchase of the fridge ) and whether a move to another area might obviate the need for paying them , taking in a quick discourse on the immorality of contributing to the divisive education system in this country anyway ; this will lead to the if-we-sold-our-suburban-villa-we-could-buy-a-Georgian-manor-house-in-the-country conversation ; which will in its turn move on quite quickly to the horrors of British Rail and the greatly increased subjection to them that such a move would entail ; then we get to leaving all our friends behind , and to debating whether having them to stay at the weekends would not be perfectly satisfactory ; which will remind us that two or more of them are coming to dinner that very night and we 'd better get down to the off-licence ; then it 's shall-we-get-Muscadet-or-the-Chardonnay- again and for-heaven's-sake-get-enough which will get us back to the fridge , on account of last time we got the Chardonnay , I did n't put it in it soon enough . |
| 3 | I 'm going to second that . |
| 4 | Last night as I 'm going to sleep all I could smell was like ashtray , you know ! |
| 5 | I 'm going to recess these a little bit . |
| 6 | By the way , they wo n't be coming to school any more , when from next term . |
| 7 | Constance asked Ludovico , as they were going to bed that night . |
| 8 | And then who is going to captain this side ? |
| 9 | Roger 's brought us some milk and butter and cream , and he 's coming to supper this evening . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I was going to work this afternoon . ’ |
| 11 | Nothing , it seemed , was going to part those book keepers from their copies of Excel ! |
| 12 | At 3.05pm she appeared barefoot , dressed in jeans and a cotton blouse on the doorstep to say she was going to post some letters . |