Example sentences of "be [v-ing] to the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Be punctual , pay attention to what you wear , be aware of how others are reacting to the signals you are sending out . |
| 2 | Charity workers are looking to the boys to set an example when they return to Beirut . |
| 3 | This is particularly bad in London and , as a result , dissatisfied clients are looking to the merits of regionally-based firms . |
| 4 | Now that help is urgently needed to stem the threatened spread of AIDS , some governments are looking to the churches to put forward a limiting view of sex . |
| 5 | I wonder if players are listening to the lessons because they are certainly not learning them . |
| 6 | I am listening to the whispers . |
| 7 | Yes er we 're going to the drugs squad Dave and I the launch of a new hotline which is where people can report dealers , a little bit sceptical about its success but we 've spent quite a lot on posters and business cards . |
| 8 | We 're going to the ruins , remember ? |
| 9 | ‘ You 're going to the police ? ’ |
| 10 | And finally tonight , if you 're going to the dogs at Armadale , Eubank runs in the fifth and Madonna goes in the tenth . |
| 11 | ‘ But this afternoon we 're going to the shops . |
| 12 | Erm I take it we 're we 're going to the shops and you all |
| 13 | Erm , Chair , on the general financial position , it 's , it 's what I referred to earlier , as moving from somewhere where there were a direct employer or where we were grant-aiding a voluntary body to get on to a more , ultimately a more commercial footing , where we relate the money that we 're paying to the services that are being provided . |
| 14 | That 's all it comes by is human learning , and you 're neglecting that , you say , that is you are n't developing a learning society and you 're going to pay for this and pay for this and pay for this , you see , and your children will pay for it , your grandchildren will pay for it , you see , just what you 're doing to the educational system , what you 're doing to the universities and you 're so far behind from what erm most other modern countries are . |
| 15 | what we 're saying to the liberals , you know , well sort of have a look at this , look at what we 're sort of proposed |
| 16 | Even though we say things , it[s just mouthing off like when you 're talking to the lads , showing off , I s'pose . |
| 17 | Oh no do n't do it with spit , saliva that you 're spitting to the boots you have to have water buckets of water and polish to do it I and they were up the stairs doing the boots on the grey carpet in the back bedroom and they had newspaper down |
| 18 | We 're trying to the horrors of central government diktat are all closing upon this city . |
| 19 | For 40 years the North Warren Fen , between Aldeburgh and Thorpeness , has been succumbing to the advances of dominant vegetation and specialised reedbed bird species such as bittern , bearded tit and marsh harrier have suffered as a result . |
| 20 | The increased number of sailings and competitive pricing means more people are turning to the ferries for their journeys to Britain . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've been going to the races and washing up the dishes with my wife , as I need a bit of a rest before I start . |
| 22 | In a few hours of concentrated assault he could destroy months of determined surreptitious growth ; but then he would discover some other , overlooked area where things had been going to the dogs unheeded and some valiantly struggling patch of wood anemone or bluebells had been choked to the last gasp . |
| 23 | I am going to do so and so , or I am going to the pictures or I , I 'm going to so and so 's for tea . |
| 24 | The report suggests there is a glut of exstudents from 1990 and 1991 who have yet to find work , and these are adding to the problems faced by the most recently qualified . |
| 25 | We are going to the islands . ’ |
| 26 | " Very well ; but , as we are going to the islands where there is such a darkness that a spoon might stand up in it , we must first go to the bright home of the sun and ask for one of his rays . " |
| 27 | Coun Tony Chilton told the Borough 's development and environment committee yesterday : ‘ The benefits which are going to the towns seem very unfair , very biased . |
| 28 | I am delighted to report that Paul and his colleagues are going to the barricades to fight the council 's decision . |
| 29 | But things really are going to the dogs . ’ |
| 30 | Half are going to the regions , especially the south-west . |