Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [pers pn] [to-vb] " in BNC.

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91 You did the er Oh no yes it 's you to draw .
92 It 's yours to spend in any way you wish .
93 Well , no , it 's yours to keep , you can read it a at your leisure erm if you 've got any problems with that you 've got my card and you can ring .
94 It is yours to manage and mould .
95 Life is a gift , and it is yours to learn how to receive , not to earn .
96 Well if it was me to keep it balanced I usually put the bigger ones near the bottom or on one side so that the small bit are at the top and the big bits are at the bottom and artistically it looks a bit better balanced but it does n't really matter for the maths where you put it .
97 She would put all her things on the floor because it was hers to do what she liked with .
98 The next morning he plonked all this money on the table , about eighteen hundred quid , and said it was mine to re-do the kitchen and the bathroom . ’
99 I said it was mine to hide .
100 A stark poem with the photograph reads : ‘ Once my heart was one and it was yours to keep .
101 The comb was made of shiny steel and it was his to keep .
102 What are they to finish painting and do a bit
103 What are they to do in the changed circumstances ?
104 What are they to do with anything ?
105 What are they to do ?
106 Wha , wha What are they to do , with the garage people ?
107 If so , what are they to make of the case last week of Maria Jones , a 22-year-old woman who was 31 weeks pregnant ?
108 What are we to drink ?
109 ‘ Sir , what are we to live on ?
110 What are we to deduce from these remarkable observations ?
111 It is this " odd prejudice against his subject " which causes Tindall to move beyond the bounds of " decency " : " What are we to say of a research student who [ sets ] in an ambiguous light the author of one of the greatest books in our language , and one of the greatest religious forces in the life of England ? "
112 If even these apparently straightforward discourse types can not be equated with single functions , what are we to say of novels , or chats , or arguments , or jokes ?
113 What are we to say to that ?
114 You see if that 's how we 're to judge blessing then what are we to say to people , to men like C T Stard who sacrificed an inheritance that in today 's value , just in the early part of this century , but in today 's value be worth millions of pounds to go to the Congo , and to China , and to India ?
115 What are we to say ?
116 So what are we to conclude ?
117 What are we to conclude about the implications for his later personality of the way in which a child is treated during his early years ?
118 What are we to do with stories like these ?
119 But still the question remains : what are we to do with stories like these ?
120 ‘ Then what are we to do for the best ? ’
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