Example sentences of "[be] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , it was real , it was happening : sitting with her back straight and her head up in the carriage on the way back , she thought how proud her father would have been to see her at the centre of all this pomp and splendour , and found herself mentally comparing his craggy looks and red beard with Joãs clean-shaven face and small , manicured hands . |
| 2 | She always was a bit ‘ igh and mighty for the likes of us , but I did ‘ ear mention that Kitty had been to see her at London University . ’ |
| 3 | Boz is the only one she 'd tell such a thing to , but she 's already told me Boz has n't been to see her since the attack . ’ |
| 4 | I think the police should have been to see her within hours and not waited four years to see her . ’ |
| 5 | Their friendship had straggled on in a passive sort of way ; he 'd been to see her in Brighton and played the romantic flirt , talking of Brief Encounter in the pub and putting his hand on her knee . |
| 6 | But Forest manager Clough , already upset with his team 's disappointing start , yesterday declared : ‘ Both players have been to see me about new contracts but they 're not getting them . |
| 7 | My hon. Friend has been to see me about this matter with a group of colleagues . |
| 8 | Er the N F U representative for Nottinghamshire , based in Stanford has been to see me about it |
| 9 | Er has been to see me about it , but I 've said that the initiative for farm watch has got to come from them , I said , we 're not gon na stand up and draw up a load of support and expect us to service the damn thing , I said it 's up to you and your members to do it , and I still think he 's trying to get us to do it via the back door , He 's been to talk to me now about it , and I 've told him exactly what I want to do and that we we 'll be involved , but it ai n't gon na be a police run scheme , it 's gon na be a farmer 's run scheme with police support locally . |
| 10 | The only plausible way historically to guarantee the authority of such rights has been to see them as the issue of a divine law-giver . |
| 11 | Coleman knew them already — they had been to see him at the University of Alabama while planning the trip — and so it was natural enough that he should now take on the chore of shepherding them around the island during their stay . |
| 12 | During his time as Party chairman , many constituency officers had been to see him on a similar errand . |
| 13 | She had n't been to see him for nearly a week , but that had happened before when the red-headed lout was staying at the farm . |
| 14 | When they met , Burn said that Donaldson had been to see him in the interim . |
| 15 | Robert said he 'd been to see you in Brno recently ; hope it was a good weekend . |
| 16 | Sometimes we are to treat it as a drawing of a box , sometimes as one of wire frames . |
| 17 | It would seem to me that if you 've got to prove a case that there that it is the place of last resort , and that place of last resort has got to be at least five thousand dwellings , you are in a place where there is absolute massive growth of demand , and improbably no one has been able to meet a five year supply of housing land , if you are to meet it in the term , if y if those are the criteria to meeting the terms of th of this sort of plan , and in fact what I would submit is that a new settlement solution is very much a part and parcel of a long term solution , and that 's where essentially the County strategy is quite right in proposing a new settlement in the context of the greenbelt , because also greenbelt is a long term solution . |
| 18 | And if you are to provide them with decent motives for a murder , and decently different ones as well , you will need room to do it in . |
| 19 | A key objective since Tencel was launched has been to position it at the top end of the market , working with the best mills , converters and manufacturers and attracting a premium price for the fibre . |
| 20 | An alternative explanation for price rises , for example , has been to relate them to the amount of money in circulation or the bullion value of the coinage . |
| 21 | Suppose , however , the children have to secretly plan an escape which the crew of the ship are to know nothing about … |
| 22 | The Mid-Kent Water Company has imposed a hosepipe ban , while the Kent Division of Southern Water Services and the Folkestone and District Water Company are to impose one from tomorrow . |
| 23 | The research aims to monitor the law on illegitimacy in the light of the provisions which are to supercede it under the Family Law Reform Act 1987 . |
| 24 | It seems , however , always to have been associated by those who employed it with the idea that Britain 's historic policy towards its dependencies had been to lead them along the path towards self-government — a belief which had for its principal inspiration the history of Canada since the Durham report . |
| 25 | And , Father , he asked — the lord sheriff asked — that I should beg you to have Brother Cadfael informed also , and when the morning comes , if you permit , I am to lead him to the place , to meet the sheriff there . |
| 26 | His original plan had been to sell her at the Sonepur Mela in Bihar , the world 's largest animal fair and their final destination . |
| 27 | Right you 're to match it with a bear . |
| 28 | Well er by the time I arrived at the doorway to the room erm a male person was lying on the floor , spreadeagled er and my job would have been to cover him with the shot gun er to enable P C to go forward and handcuff the chap . |
| 29 | The expectation is that if Durham , the first new first-class county since Glamorgan in 1921 , are to win something in their inaugural season , it will be a one-day competition . |
| 30 | But had it not been to rid herself of her aura of wealth and privilege which had created her feeling that she was the darling of the gods — although the same gods knew how brutally they had treated her — that she had come to the East End to work , and to live as though she really needed to , and to survive on the pittance which she had earned , without bolting back again to luxury and comfort ? |