Example sentences of "be [adv prt] [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have noticed women at parties distracted and uneasy , seen them leave the group they 're in to join another , where their partner , they fear , is having too good a time , his attention too focused for comfort on another woman . |
| 2 | But Spittals is going to want to see results in a day or so otherwise we 're off to do some time on that robbery job . ’ |
| 3 | We 're off to spot some winners , and there are two tickets to be won for the big race |
| 4 | They 're out to get all they can out of them ! |
| 5 | ‘ At the moment there is no icon , there are no pop stars because most people who are involved in dance music are doing it in their back room , we 're out to change all that . ’ |
| 6 | I feel we 're about to make some kind of breakthrough , but it 's not there yet . |
| 7 | because the rules that we 've made for ourselves in maths , er we will , we 're about to break those . |
| 8 | According to consultant Samantha Vandertoorn from The South London Natural Health Centre , the knowledge that you 're about to forget all your troubles in flotation could be just the incentive your body needs to get you to Westminster Bridge . |
| 9 | Significantly , despite his huge investment in bloodstock , Sheikh Mohammed has never won the Epsom Derby and the pressure will be on to have this exceptional three-year-old line up for the world 's most famous Classic . |
| 10 | They 'll be out to beat that tomorrow . |
| 11 | And , I 'm about to test that . |
| 12 | I 'm not sure you could take a tabloid in this direction I 'm about to propose that would also appeal to some popular customers , but it 's like , last night everyone was reminiscing about Type ninety and the high points and one of the things that came out in conversation was that there was enormous amount of sex going on which I suppose there is at all conferences , you know , but this one seemed to be , you know , the randiest conference in recent memory . |
| 13 | The laboratory holding three of the Taiwan Ten is believed to be about to acquire another 30 orang-utans , the origin of which is unknown . |
| 14 | It is lagging at the moment but we may be about to see some real performance . |
| 15 | As we loaded up the trucks with everything we would need for our month away at Canjuers I felt that we might be about to learn some soldiering . |
| 16 | Now , I 'm not saying Wilko should drop these players ( actually I am about to say that but only for Hodge ! ) only that they did n't *sound* to play well ! ! |
| 17 | ISWALLOW hard , suspecting that I am about to become another statistic in the rising tide of Tube violence , 380 reported assaults a year and mounting , 16,000 other crimes . |
| 18 | Just as I am about to despatch this month 's musings , lots of late news has reached me . |
| 19 | SOME observers think diesel-engined cars are about to enjoy another upsurge in popularity among company vehicle fleet operators . |
| 20 | While the trio are about to add another voice to their repertoire , this cut acknowledges a similar knowing quality to that which has become the stock in trade of the Pet Shop Boys . |
| 21 | Our pattern will be displayed as we originally designed it in the Fair Isle option , but we are about to make some changes . |
| 22 | There 's nothing wrong with the taste , but it 's a culinary shock if you order one or two for dessert under the impression that you are about to eat some oriental sweetmeat . |
| 23 | She 'd been about to tackle that obstacle earlier in the evening on her way to get changed for dinner , when Michele had appeared and , despite her objections , carried her up . |
| 24 | Jess saw him coming , but was too bothered by the scrape she and Midnight were in to take any notice . |
| 25 | A better way of life need not depend on a higher standard of living and they were out to stop those whose pursuit of continued economic and industrial growth undermined the basis of life itself . |
| 26 | One group was told that the organisational norm was to ‘ avoid controversy ’ ; another was told that the norm was ‘ cooperative controversy ’ , ie. trying to agree ; a third was told that groups were out to win any arguments that arose , ie. ‘ competitive controversy ’ . |
| 27 | Realising she had no chance of winning an argument against the use of first names when they were about to spend several weeks alone at sea together , Polly made a brief gesture of acquiescence . |
| 28 | Not when we were about to put that lot away . ’ |
| 29 | Me and my dad were about to cut these dykes when it came on hard . |
| 30 | On the stock market , BAe shares responded to the news — and reports that a consortium of international banks were about to provide some kind of support package to help to finance the massive Saudi Arabian defence order — with a 27p jump to 553p on brisk turnover . |