Example sentences of "he [be] [v-ing] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I like the quiet of Beckenham , where no one bothers your balls , ’ said Dad , thinking that that was the end of the matter , as it would have been had he been talking to Mum . |
| 2 | So will he be returning to sea ? |
| 3 | I 've got one brother , but he was younger than me and at that time he were going to school anyway . |
| 4 | Yeah he 'd got some letters , apparently he were going to Post Office later for stamps and everything and er got this letter and seeings I 'd only got three he give me his , give me twenty four pence for a stamp so I walked to Post Office , I thought well I do n't want no penny or tuppeny stamps . |
| 5 | Stockton 's mayor , Coun Stephen Smailes , disclosed this week he is complaining to broadcasting chiefs that the pick of the programmes during a BBC promotion in Cleveland next week will come from Middlesbrough . |
| 6 | He is hoping to rope in Madonna to record her next album there . |
| 7 | If he had been simply playing the girl game , she reasoned , he would be getting steadily more intimate , and here he is reverting to deference . |
| 8 | He is going to work on them . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Merymose is a braver man than I thought , if he is going to Kenamun of all people for the help of a former scribe of the Great Criminal ! ’ |
| 10 | Oh he 's speaking to pussy . |
| 11 | ‘ He 's goin' to head-up world planning operations from Detroit . ’ |
| 12 | Yes , and he 's trying to sort of to put a erm a picture in your mind of , of these er er specific things and here is one , here is one , they 're not all like that , however I think th this may be a very good way of er of getting the whole lot overthrown , he may be erm I mean how do you , how do you define these things ? |
| 13 | Mind you , I do n't know what he 's taking to work today cos we have n't got any bread . |
| 14 | He 's running to fat , too . |
| 15 | He 's going to mass . |
| 16 | On the mat down there look , with the wool he 's going to sleep . |
| 17 | I thought he 's going to sleep again . |
| 18 | An environmental campaigner is demanding that Severn Trent Water should refund seven million pounds in charges because he claims it 's not doing its job properly.Julian Jones says the authority is failing to control pollution … and the local community could spend the money more wisely.And now he 's going to court to claim the water charges back . |
| 19 | ‘ He 's going to prison . ’ |
| 20 | He 's going to Hell or there 's no justice . |
| 21 | Roger 's brought us some milk and butter and cream , and he 's coming to supper this evening . ’ |
| 22 | Patrick knew that he was bleeding to death . |
| 23 | He was listening to electro-funk on the car stereo . |
| 24 | Why Mr never came , because , he came , he started going to school , I heard this at recorders , he did n't , he did n't get up till late cos he did n't hear it , he he was driving to school and he started a little , little but he went home . |
| 25 | He did not notice , as he was talking to Sister outside 15 . |
| 26 | He was responding to criticism by Cleveland County Council 's Labour group . |
| 27 | Cos one day we found him and he was choking to death practically and erm er Tam , Linda 's husband turned him upside down and smacked his back , he 'd eaten a one pound coin . |
| 28 | My brother used to take a comb to school in his sports bag and when he was walking to school he goes |
| 29 | In November 1989 , Coleman reluctantly agreed to resign his commission with the Boy Scouts of America , giving as his reason that he was returning to journalism with a job in Germany . |
| 30 | ‘ You said he was coming to tea . ’ |