Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] be [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | we have always got the bulk we are only going to be in Woking an hour . |
| 2 | If there is a lacuna in the law it is probably confined to combinations to do acts which amount to crimes but to no other wrong , but the exclusion of such cases from the tort of conspiracy may be a necessary consequence of Lonrho whatever the mental element required for the tort . |
| 3 | He actually resembles the working class hero he 's always striven to be , the ‘ Armchair Anarchist ’ with a bottle of light ale in one hand and an incendiary device in the other . |
| 4 | Right so so no mail in connection with the assignment is sent to your home it 's always sent to the er . |
| 5 | I refer to IJ 's review of the Tilson Thomas recording of Tchaikovsky 's Swan Lake , in which he confirms the conclusion I was rapidly coming to — namely that the definitive version has not yet hatched ! |
| 6 | In our first few hours of membership we are highly attuned to some of the assumptions . |
| 7 | Because the eye is allowed no escape at the top of the canvas we are also forced to ‘ read ’ the picture downwards again , through its component geometricized elements , with the result that they seem to advance towards us . |
| 8 | As they neared the small shop they were nearly knocked to the ground by a young man fleeing from the same direction . |
| 9 | By this period he was seriously addicted to the tranquillizer , nembutal , and there seem to have been a number of objects to which he attached his fears — lifts and large animals among them . |
| 10 | Her husband , Jack , used to sell fruit and vegetables from a horse and cart , going as far as the top of Baldersdale to find custom He was well known to all the elder members of the Hauxwell family , including Hannah 's mother and father . |
| 11 | The image depressed him ; if that was heaven it was best left to the cherubim and seraphim who might be turned on by that sort of thing . |
| 12 | Apart from peg 40 immediately below the Teme it was definitely going to be a feeder job . |
| 13 | That night I was again subjected to the ordeal by wedding dress . |
| 14 | ‘ Talk to her , C.W. You 're the only person she 's ever listened to in the past . ’ |
| 15 | Er I I think I take Mr 's point that er you would n't go to well a mile it 's really going to be horses for courses is n't it ? |
| 16 | With her hooded eyes loaded with mascara she was often likened to Myrna Loy and was eventually given a film test , a frequent occurrence for beauties in the 1920s . |
| 17 | For your information , I enclose a copy of the final draft of the questionnaire we are currently issuing to members in Scotland ( along with other papers for our ‘ regional ’ AGM in May ) . |
| 18 | Thus for example it is sometimes held to be of significance that the first appearance of the resurrected Christ is said to have been to a woman . |
| 19 | Oh it does , and he said to me , erm this afternoon , he said eh , oh he said eh , your weight loss is really , really noticing this week , and I thought well , even if I had lost weight this week it 's only going to be a couple of pounds , and a couple of pounds would not notice . |
| 20 | It is not important to be concerned with the historical veracity of these statements ( for in any case they were often added to , touched up and re-interpreted ) but with the impact that they had . |
| 21 | Well , we have seen electrical cars in the form of milk floats for many years , and of course they 're particularly suited to intermittent use , stopping and starting every few yards . |
| 22 | ‘ Well , we both know that the man you are gradually reducing to cat 's meat was killed by a fall from scaffolding . |
| 23 | In desperation , in many cases , young females deliberately become pregnant because they know that once they are in that state they are immediately restored to the benefit system . |
| 24 | I have a quiet feeling that this no reading and no a add up and all that stuff co co stems from the music they 're always listening to . |
| 25 | In an amplified state it is generally referred to as ‘ expanded consciousness ’ — a condition that allows us to process through our nervous system , information from the environment which during a normal state of consciousness is totally inaccessible . |
| 26 | In Anglo-Saxon society it is usually confined to greetings between men and women who , are socially , but not sexually , intimate . |
| 27 | By the standards of a Blum or a Reynaud he was hardly subjected to persecution . |
| 28 | Solubility : Benzene does not dissolve in water , as it is a liquid it is usually referred to as immiscible with water . |
| 29 | ‘ Of course it was always going to be difficult , ’ he said . |
| 30 | Of course it was never going to be easy . |