Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] [pron] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | She lifted her chin , glaring back , refusing to allow herself to be bested completely . |
| 2 | We 're going to train you to be an executive , not some zombie-clerk in Stores . |
| 3 | What right do I have to take his picture if he feels he 's in a state of revolution against his government and I 'm going to cause him to be arrested . |
| 4 | ‘ And unless you 're going to allow it to be your husband — to let him be boss , in fact — your relationship is never going to work . |
| 5 | Are we going to allow ourselves to be intimidated by a tin-pot dictator like Jazali ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I thought any time she was going to ask me to be bridesmaid . ’ |
| 7 | That 's why we 're going to ask you to be our testers . |
| 8 | Going to ask you to be her bridesmaid , only do n't tell her I told you . |
| 9 | ‘ Now I 'm going to ask you to be indiscreet . |
| 10 | He looked as if he was going to tell her to be quiet , and Maggie 's temper rose . |
| 11 | It had all happened so long ago , and she had found a successful career for herself in radio anyway , despite Luke 's having caused her to be dismissed from that first job back in South Africa and the subsequent need to abandon her Communications course , and as he himself had pointed out — oh , as she herself had always known deep down , hence her long-ago guilt — she had chosen to leave Johannesburg when her father was dying . |
| 12 | Having willed himself to be a snake he is then made one by God , demonstrating his impotence in comparison to the Deity . |
| 13 | He may admit ( unwisely again ) that in using that proposition as a premise he is implicitly claiming to know it to be true . |
| 14 | I , on the other hand , am organised and punctual and trying to get her to be organised wears me out . |
| 15 | ‘ But the Thing is trying to get him to be sensible . |
| 16 | review with them where they 're at , record how they 're doing , you know tra , I mean I ca n't tell them to do that , but actually ask them to spend five or ten minutes each session talking to different pupils and what they 've been doing and you know even if it 's a personal timetable some people wo n't get into it but it 's you know , trying to get them to be what are tutors are , you know , I 'd like them to do . |