Example sentences of "[pers pn] to [be] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dreadful for you to be without Mrs Howard — I was a day or two without Maria , so I can completely sympathize . |
| 2 | I do n't pay you to be late , I pay you to be on time . ’ |
| 3 | The preferable position , I 've got to say is the position two , unless the circumstances allow you to be in position one . |
| 4 | I do n't want you to be in trouble with your mistress . ’ |
| 5 | What time have you to be in Clackmannan ? |
| 6 | Streets or parks are too theatrical for me to be at ease , so I make bad moves , exaggerate or , more often , under-bid . |
| 7 | Would you like me to be within reach in case Dawn turns nasty ? ’ |
| 8 | It was a great bonus to me to be near Sarah , and I frequently went on the bus to Harpenden . |
| 9 | This principle seems to me to be in accordance with good sense . |
| 10 | That statement seems to me to be in accordance with the views of Lord Keith of Kinkel , at p. 256 , and Lord Griffiths , at p. 273 . |
| 11 | ‘ Already there seems to me to be in existence a new kind of human being who is living ahead of the meaning of our time , knowing only that meaning has to be lived before it can be known . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm surprised to learn that you still believe me to be in possession of my cherry , or however you 'd phrase it . |
| 13 | For example Bar-Yosef and Kolodny , and Litzenberger and Ramaswamy have found dividends to be significant while Black and Scholes have found them to be without significance . |
| 14 | How long do you want them to be on H R T for ? |
| 15 | He had thought that because the Government allowed them to be on sale ‘ they must be OK ’ . |
| 16 | For the trouble with the great and the good is that we expect them to be on duty the whole time . |
| 17 | Their great merit was that they " schooled " the children of the lower orders without interfering with the need for them to be at work on weekdays , hence their great appeal in manufacturing and mining areas . |
| 18 | And I think where where youngsters were away from school that was a greater reason for them to be at home , to look after home , whilst their parents were ill or if probably one of the other kids were off ill or something like that you see , because in most families there was what three and four children . |
| 19 | Ismail Ayob , Mr Mandela 's lawyer , had phoned Mrs Sisulu , Cyril Ramaphosa , Murphy Morobe and Cassim Salojee — all MDM leaders — on Monday night to instruct them to be at Mr Mandela 's prison house , also in the Cape Town area , at five on Tuesday afternoon . |
| 20 | Even before the sculptures were revealed to the world , artists of no less authority than Renoir and Mary Cassatt declared them to be among Degas ' greatest achievements . |
| 21 | The more usual situation is where payment is ‘ at sight ’ meaning when the paying bank has examined the documents and found them to be in order or at a determinable future date — for example ‘ 90 days sight ’ meaning that payment will be made to the exporter 90 days after the paying bank has examined the documents . |
| 22 | And it would allow them to be in tune with higher forces , and er the better principles of the world . |
| 23 | This is not to say that R&D should not think in terms of processes that do not currently exist , but it emphasizes the need for discussion and agreement on how they shall be provided , in time for them to be in place when they are needed . |
| 24 | The judge found them to be in contempt and committed each to prison for a term of four months . |
| 25 | In these ways , our relationship with others grows and deepens , freeing them to be in Christ as they might long to be . |
| 26 | It would enable them to really allow the greater selves in themselves to be the people representing their people , their country , er so it would allow them to become statesmen in a sense , you know , it would allow the wise part of them to come forth , and for them to be in harmony with each other . |
| 27 | Yeah , well you do n't expect him to be on top of the world do you ? |
| 28 | Again Heston held a good deal of creative control over the enterprise , and made his point to Caulfield by writing him a firm letter telling him to be on time or else . |
| 29 | She owed it to him to be on hand when he needed her . |
| 30 | It is the duty of the trustee to report to the committee all such matters as appear to him or as the committee have indicated to him to be of concern to them with respect to the administration of the estate ( r 6.152(1) ) . |