Example sentences of "he [is] [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | PECKINPAH 'S LAST masterpiece , with James Coburn gloomily remembering , as he is shot to death , how he betrayed his values by tracking down free spirit Kris Kristofferson . |
| 3 | He is sentenced to death but dies in prison . |
| 4 | When he is sentenced to gaol he pleads in mitigation that he ‘ might have been a better citizen if I 'd had the levels ’ , to a Judge who did n't understand what he was saying , and of course the last page sees him studying for ‘ the levels ’ in prison . |
| 5 | Next there is the instinct that it is contrary to fair play to put the accused in a position where he is exposed to punishment whatever he does . |
| 6 | ‘ the instinct that it is contrary to fair play to put the accused in a position where he is exposed to punishment whatever he does . |
| 7 | He is hoping to rope in Madonna to record her next album there . |
| 8 | Likewise , to give the fistula-suffering monarch ( Hugh Ross ) rather more than his fair share of Fisher King-like significance , he is made to stagger about in a stagy , enfeebled agony that could compete with Amfortas 's travails in Parsifal . |
| 9 | So now he is clubbed to death instead , much to the surprise of the audience . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In The Quarry Man ( 1908 ) a workman is blinded during blasting operations at a quarry ; later his wife becomes unfaithful and he is driven to suicide ; just in time his wife pulls him out of the river and she now abandons ‘ the downward path ’ . |
| 12 | He is going to work on them . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ 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 ! ’ |
| 14 | It is also vital that any incident or accident involving the emergency services ( police , fire or ambulance ) is notified to Peter Bateman at Felcourt as soon as possible so that he is briefed to dal with consequent media enquiries . |
| 15 | The smoked window doors slam shut and he is removed to gnome hospital . |
| 16 | If he is taken to court , detectives can apply for permission to question him for a further 24 hours . |
| 17 | Oh he 's speaking to pussy . |
| 18 | But he 's go to sleep that quick though do n't he ? |
| 19 | ‘ He 's goin' to head-up world planning operations from Detroit . ’ |
| 20 | 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 ? |
| 21 | Mind you , I do n't know what he 's taking to work today cos we have n't got any bread . |
| 22 | Unless he 's promoted to Superintendent , he 'll face demotion , the sack or early retirement . |
| 23 | He 's running to fat , too . |
| 24 | He 's going to mass . |
| 25 | On the mat down there look , with the wool he 's going to sleep . |
| 26 | I thought he 's going to sleep again . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ He 's going to prison . ’ |
| 29 | He 's going to Hell or there 's no justice . |
| 30 | Roger 's brought us some milk and butter and cream , and he 's coming to supper this evening . ’ |