Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] to one [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The acquirer may not have the time or be willing to make the inspections and will not want to accept the risk that some information may have been given to one of its employees or advisers who was unable at the time to appreciate its significance in relation to the transaction , or indeed may have been forgotten . |
| 2 | An undergraduate met by chance on the campus walkway might be treated to one of his brilliant , spontaneous tutorials , the kind normally only dreamt about , while a group of colleagues over whose meeting he was to preside gazed at an empty chair . |
| 3 | Panmure 's constituent left the member of parliament in no doubt about his expectation that the appointment would be transferred to one of his own friends , and in fact it was very difficult for a politician to evade such requests without disobliging a voter . |
| 4 | An imposter arrived claiming to be related to one of them , and whilst he was alone with the bodies he drove a wooden stake into the heart of each . |
| 5 | The government of the day will often let it be known to one of its aspiring party members that it would greatly welcome his ballot victory to promote a particular piece of legislation which it , the Government , does not wish to devote its own time to , either because of its controversial nature or simply because it has better things to do . |
| 6 | What he wanted was wide open spaces that could be converted to one of his new-style holiday camps , offering bargain , trouble-free holidays for the whole family . |
| 7 | The papers we have in our Archive are essentially the contents of Christabel 's desk when she died — she expressed a wish that they should be sent to one of her nieces , May Bailey , ‘ in the hope that she may come to care about poetry ’ . ’ |
| 8 | This resulted in a great deal of correspondence between myself and the Development Corporation and at the end of it I told my wife the best thing to do was to hand her notice in as there was no chance of us ever getting a house in Harlow , fortunately her services were much more seriously in demand then we imagined and the company nominated us for one , a house which is allocated to one of their executives , the house that we 're living in now and have lived in ever since nineteen sixty three . |
| 9 | The only clues to the identity of the telephone bidders was that German was spoken to one of them by the saleroom staff . |
| 10 | I 'd like to demonstrate this by reading a little bit from a letter that was sent to one of our members in this position . |