Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] a big [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Analysts briefed by IBM said that the company is seeking to rally a big show of support for the Workplace OS when it is launched , and that enhancements for both PC-DOS and OS/2 are in the works . |
| 2 | I remember my father saying earlier that we 're going to see a big television . |
| 3 | ‘ Bernard gave me four new tyres for my own car as payment but kept saying , ‘ I 'm going to open a big factory one day and have you as works ' manager ’ . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ They 've said they 're going to do a big media blitz for us at the end of this week . ’ |
| 5 | I was n't going to rush around buying horribly expensive things like smoke salmon that I could n't afford , I was going to do a big family feast and I was going to get in a few games like the monopoly or lotto or you know , I just , I have n't worked it out but I thought oh what fun |
| 6 | ‘ But I 'm not going to get a big head about it or anything . |
| 7 | You 're going to have a big party tomorrow . ’ |
| 8 | Remember though , you can only do this in open water ; if there are snags around you can bet the bream will head for them , and there is no way you are going to stop a big bream on 2lb line . |
| 9 | The Stacker device driver is pretty big — 40Kb — and unless this can be loaded high , it 's going to take a big chunk of Conventional memory . |
| 10 | But I have to say for Shropshire , it means one I think , er , per year , and that 's not going to make a big dent . |
| 11 | ‘ Four clubs have asked me to play next season , and I 'm going to make a big effort to get fit again . |
| 12 | Just as a player is often said to be struggling to justify a big fee . |
| 13 | ‘ Several of my friends went up yesterday , and were expecting to spearhead a big breakthrough . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ We'se goin' to have a big Carol Service in the church on Christmas Eve . |
| 15 | Pam Large from Banbury in Oxfordshire wrote to Kevin to say that her husband was trying to secure a big business contract with a new company for his kitchen and bathroom furniture business . |
| 16 | Ya I was I 've been thinking of trying to have a big delivery of something . |
| 17 | David , 38 , with his brother Andy and fishing partners Kev Berry and Robin Clark have spent dozens of hours trying to take a big predator from the water . |
| 18 | I sometimes think , he wrote , that if in one sense I am back in the nursery trying to make a big toy with nothing but wood and string , in another I am back in the classroom fiddling with bunsen burners while Mr Alexander walks round sniffing with his long distinguished nose in the air . |
| 19 | This year Puma is trying to make a big impression on the running market . |
| 20 | Now , Miller 's adopted daughter Jonnie Dee and her husband Barry Soper , are planning to build a Big Band Museum in Clarinda , Iowa , where Miller was born in 1904 . |
| 21 | SWIMMERS in the North-East are planning to make a big splash for charity this weekend in a national fund raising event . |