Example sentences of "be [v-ing] to this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ More and more people are looking to this kind of holiday — a bit of walking through spectacular landscapes , punctuated by train rides , ’ says Mark Livock , product manager |
| 2 | Will he bear in mind the fact that many eastern European countries are looking to this country as a possible dumping ground and they produce their goods with wages of about 20p an hour ? |
| 3 | The value they 're attaching to this holiday , is it an important element for them ? |
| 4 | Let's just consider the political problem though you have still got a problem selling it to a lot of MP s , if they 're listening to this interview and they are concluding , maybe rightly , maybe wrongly , that actually things are n't changing very much , and they may think they 've been sold a pup with these amendments , indeed I hear that some of them have had to be bought off , well , is it true that one of them was sent off to Peru on an on an election er supervision mission in order that he might not be around when the bill came up . |
| 5 | Well it is three hundred and twenty thousand pound that they 're paying to this person that should not have been there in the first place , he walked on there , he built places there without planning permission and I think if the council had played their cards right , they could have got him off without paying out this three hundred twenty thousand pound . |
| 6 | Giles Estwick has got an airline to sponsor one of those international exchange schemes , and Flo is the jock we 're sending to this station in Hawaii for three weeks . |
| 7 | With what-all they 're doing to this planet down at the equator , there 's some weird stuff happening up here . |
| 8 | More and more people are turning to this type of therapy and are discovering in it many of the consolations and insights that were once the preserve of religion . |
| 9 | I know he 's been doing to this man as he 's gone past so Harry sitting there the not saying you know . |
| 10 | What I do n't do is pretend to be a socialist , organise five hundred pound a head er ticket dinners as Neil Kinnock does , champagne and then have the gall next day to go to on the nineteenth of July , on the very day when saw what the Labour Group are doing to this city . |
| 11 | ‘ This place we 're going to , it 's in Mariánské Láznë ? ’ she thought she should enquire , since it seemed they would not be walking to this lunchtime venue . |
| 12 | ‘ Listen , Arty , I 'm writing to this Dagg fellow . |
| 13 | I would say that if you 're sixty years old and looking for meaning in life you should not be listening to this kind of music . |
| 14 | She glanced at David and wryly saw that he seemed to be listening to this conversation with great interest . |
| 15 | gon na be listening to this tape yeah |
| 16 | I 'm going to this year . . |
| 17 | Well if I 'm going to this meeting . |
| 18 | I said oh if I 'm in Beck and I 've got a free couple of hours I 'll come round but I do n't think I 'm going to this week . |
| 19 | I 'm ready when you want I 'm going to this time daddy . |
| 20 | Well , I will be going to this game , sat with the Everton fans , so if anybody is interested in a ticket for this game , can you please get in touch with me , by mailing the list , or mailing me direct at |
| 21 | I always see him riding about up the Steven there he 's always up there I know when I used to work for it was always Steve who used to be riding to this farm , riding to that farm , checking on this , checking on that and taking the wages round that sort of thing . |
| 22 | Er , do n't feel a bit disappointed that during my presentation I 'll be expecting to this hospital , I 'll take you to the operating room , er |
| 23 | But what they do ask for , and what we should be calling to this government to honour the existing contracts at Swan Hunters , to allow the workers at Swan to complete the work on the three vessels already in the river . |
| 24 | Is there anything I should be doing to this flat ? |
| 25 | Fr John is a lucky man to be coming to this parish . |
| 26 | Some years later I was at dinner with Brian Huggett and he got up and said , ‘ I should n't be talking to this man because he robbed me of the British Open . |
| 27 | I did n't like the feeling ; it brought it home to me how much you are judged by how you look , all the time , and how weird it feels when you are talking to this compere , and all the time you know he is n't listening to a word you are saying , just looking down your cleavage . |
| 28 | I was asking you about the guy Adam 's been talking to this evening . ’ |
| 29 | PETER MARSHALL 's double-handed style has carried him to the top of the British rankings , and many observers were looking to this week 's British Open Championship at Wembley Conference Centre to provide proof of his potential at world level . |
| 30 | Matthew waved his arm at his audience , who were listening to this exchange with come interest . |