Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] [be] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I went to change me poll tax and er I says to her , I says , I should be court to Monday oh she says you 've got a fifteen pound court thing , I says aye , she says oh well that 's fifteen pound , I says it 's not cos I 'm not paying it I says I 'm not paying the fifteen pound to the court , I says , I says how come last year I did n't pay right round to February last year I said and yet I , your last payment 's next month , you know , she said oh well they 're stricter this year she says , she , if you 'd pay the half year you 'd of been alright |
| 2 | When he was duly elected , Machin merely remarked to his wife ‘ You 'll be mayoress to the youngest mayor … |
| 3 | She 'll be home to the volunteers who 've spent up to three thousand pounds for the chance to sail some of the seven seas . |
| 4 | And Lachlan , She 'd be mother to the heir ! |
| 5 | Anywhere I was with you would be home to me . |
| 6 | ‘ Nonsense , you are little more than a slip of a girl , you would be prey to all sorts of men , fortune hunters and the like . |
| 7 | It 's very easy to use your mothering sort of skills — you can be mother to them instead of friend and adult helper . |
| 8 | In which case we may be doser to him than we think . ’ |
| 9 | Others who spoke to Mr Ayob hoped they might be party to something big . |
| 10 | They can be prey to several diseases at once , a possibility that led one to describe himself as ‘ a walking time bomb ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ It may be time to be a little flexible , ’ said her brother languidly . |
| 12 | It must be hell to be her , with her crazy parents who were always on the scrounge , though she did n't seem even to be aware of her situation . |
| 13 | ‘ It must be torture to be betrayed by your sister , ’ he said quietly . |
| 14 | That means he 'll be quarter to five ! |
| 15 | It might be convention to lunch in the executive suite . |
| 16 | THE gentlemanly art of boxing has clouted so many expressions into common usage that it might be time to ‘ throw in the towel ’ . |
| 17 | In a few seconds time he might be face to face with the man who had killed Daniel . |
| 18 | So , it could be goodbye to body odour — but only in the right room . |
| 19 | Marilyn Thompson was Charlie 's wife 's best friend ; Charlie was to be Jack 's best man and one day he thought he would be godfather to Jack 's first child . |
| 20 | Another minute and he would be broadside to the swell . |
| 21 | But in order to make up an army we must not destroy the nation ; it would be destruction to a nation if it were deprived of its best elements . |
| 22 | And it would be shame to him to hold back and let a fighter like Douglas be shot to death from a distance , with never an enemy at hand to exchange blows with him . |
| 23 | It would be grist to the mill of the tabloids if anything so bizarre happened next week , especially after the kind of meticulous preparation all tournaments of this magnitude can expect . |
| 24 | Dallas , Texas-based Saber Software Corp has licensed a subset of the Saber Menu System for MS-DOS , to Novell Inc , which will include the Saber Menu Language in NetWare v4.0 , so it will be goodbye to the old Novell Menu utility MENU.EXE . |