Example sentences of "and [verb] [prep] be [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr. Thorpe then approached me , his General Practitioner here in Barnstaple and asked to be referred to Professor Hitchcock . |
| 2 | The day was still dank and moist when I emerged , but I called a taxi from the rank outside , and asked to be taken to the ruins of Holford House , once the home of Mr Harvey-Beaumont . |
| 3 | Outside the church , I found a taxi rank , jumped in a taxi and asked to be taken to the village that gave County Louth its name . |
| 4 | The court heard she went to a taxi rank in Worksop and asked to be taken to an address where her mother lived . |
| 5 | The court heard she went to a taxi rank in Worksop and asked to be taken to an address where her mother lived . |
| 6 | Fourth September — news at Brigade H.Q that the Brigade would be returning to England on the 6th September to reorganise and prepare to be sent to the Far East and continue the war against the Japanese . |
| 7 | Joshi and a small group of supporters had decided to abandon the march at Jammu , ostensibly because of a landslide blocking the route , and agreed to be flown to Srinigar aboard an Indian Air Force carrier . |
| 8 | Hitler 's deputy , no less , baling out over Scotland then surrendering amiably to a farmer and demanding to be taken to the Duke of Hamilton . |
| 9 | In this text , which is aimed at senior undergraduate students of engineering , the subject of matrices is described and developed before being applied to some of the problems of engineering dynamics . |
| 10 | ‘ Chance ’ trade is the term used also to describe the business which comes from guests who take meals or drinks in the hotel which are not included in the terms of their reservation and has to be charged to them . |
| 11 | In calculating the time when a review is due , the starting point is : ( a ) where a person is arrested outside the police station ( i ) the time he arrives at the relevant station ; or ( ii ) the time 24 hours after the time of his arrest , whichever is the earlier ; ( b ) where a person attends the police station voluntarily and is subsequently arrested there the time of arrest ; ( c ) where a person is arrested outside England and Wales : ( i ) the time he arrives at the first station to which he is taken in the police area in which the offence for which he has been arrested is being investigated ; or ( ii ) 24 hours after the time of his entry into the country whichever is the earlier ; ( d ) where a person is arrested in another part of the country and has to be taken to the police area where the offence is being investigated for questioning — the time at which he arrived at the first police station in the police area in question . |
| 12 | It may then float , and needs to be attached to a rock with silicone sealant . |
| 13 | Then he flew up beside Cassowary and pretended to be listening to the song . |
| 14 | They are and expect to be exposed to criticism and comment from many quarters within their sphere of activity . |
| 15 | The Local Government ( Access to Information ) Act 1985 requires the public and press to be admitted to all council committees and sub-committees unless specified business exempts items of the agenda from the provisions of the Act . |
| 16 | The direction of a subject 's first eye movement following a question was recorded and found to be related to the type of question being asked . |
| 17 | This has reinforced the problems of regional imbalance inherited from the years of deep recession and the more distant past and looks to be heading to a showdown on the green fields of southern England . |
| 18 | Catfish of several species do so and appear to be calling to one another as they move in murky water . |
| 19 | Fistulas after operation are a special problem of this operation and seem to be related to a failure to recognise Crohn 's disease , technical problems related to pouch construction and ileoanal anastomosis , or from secondary sepsis . |
| 20 | Four more divisions took place then , before it was finally agreed and ordered to be sent to the House of Commons . |
| 21 | Lord George did not long remain in command of such a small vessel , however , and no sooner did he attain a more substantial command than the Duke of Montrose sent orders for the sons of the lairds of Auchenbowie and Balfunning to be sent to London with a view to joining Lord George . |
| 22 | K-ras codon 12 mutation , however , is much more common and seems to be related to size and degree of dysplasia . |
| 23 | She spelt out jokes by using the bell , and loved to be read to . |
| 24 | For all the strength of its grip on American affections , the industry has not yet done a Hollywood : sporting stars , unlike some film stars , do not pretend that they know everything there is to know about matters from a nuclear winter to farm policies and demand to be listened to on them all . |
| 25 | study bearing directly on memory for events at the tactical level , ‘ waking up ’ with no recollection of the previous road , however , is a rather more striking possibility and appears to be related to phenomena which have recently attracted interest in the literature on the psychology of driving . |
| 26 | It has emphasised its continued support for Green Belts , although much of the most controversial development is taking place in areas outside them , and appears to be responding to the fears of its backbenchers about the electoral disadvantages of apparently condoning the wholesale ‘ concreting over ’ of southern England . |
| 27 | You can receive information about all of the show in the Riverside Theatre by simply giving your full name and address to the Box Office staff and asking to be added to our mailing list . |
| 28 | But this ruse gives a chance for Nestor and the gallery of small time crooks and pimps to be transported to Devil 's Island , an escape on a raft in a storm and end up at the North Pole for a sequence with a dancing penguin and a polar bear , to give the show a Christmas gloss . |
| 29 | So when he had seen the sign ahead of him in the street , he 'd walked right in and sat down and demanded to be attended to . |
| 30 | On landing there he angrily refused to negotiate and demanded to be taken to Sweden and then the United States , warning in a note : ‘ We shall land in New York together , or die together . ’ |