Example sentences of "you [verb] be [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Forcing her voice through frozen lips , she hid her inner turmoil and quipped , ‘ You make being engaged to Peter sound like just another job ! ’ |
| 2 | It seemed to Preston that if you avoided being stabbed to death by terror gangs , you stood an even chance of being burned to death by sudden conflagration , or pushed on to the live line by a psychopath lurking among the rush-hour crowds , or struck down by a heart attack brought on by the extreme rage and frustration of trying to understand a platform announcement . |
| 3 | ‘ You were afraid of the light because you 'd been taught to be afraid of it , ’ said Rachaela . |
| 4 | Would you mind being introduced to the Aged now ? |
| 5 | If you like being condemned to death and followed around by loonies with slippers on and becoming involved with weird prophecies from the dawn of time , it 's a lot of fun ! |
| 6 | MS 9 What alterations , if any , would you suggest be made to existing arrangements ( in association with existing other distribution officer ) ? |
| 7 | Choose the one you feel is attuned to you and your needs — — this can often be judged by the number of relevant questions asked ; the more that are asked , the better he is likely to be . |
| 8 | When your choice of newspaper and the drink you prefer are delivered to your room . |
| 9 | For white middleclass males , however , pride and dignity has little resonance , when all your life you 've been trained to be aspirational and competitive . |
| 10 | Cavell says you 've been invited to the awards ceremony , and she 's asked the organisers to seat us together . |
| 11 | She said , ‘ I 'm sure you 've been invited to the wedding next week . ’ |
| 12 | Therefore , if you 've been exposed to the possibility of infection and have puzzling symptoms , see your doctor at once . |
| 13 | The only county-wide survey , the one of importance to you ma'am is contained within the North Yorkshire Conservation Strategy of which I think you 've been referred to already . |
| 14 | If you 've been used to linear note-taking for many years , you 'll need to persevere with the Buzan method . |
| 15 | When you 've been used to that for sixty-two years , hot water and a flushing toilet do come as something of a culture shock . |
| 16 | ‘ You 've been seconded to my department . |
| 17 | I 've already mentioned the groups that you 've been allocated to . |
| 18 | So you 've been demoted to post-boy ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ After you had been presented to our gracious Queen , last summer , you followed custom by having your photograph taken in all your finery . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I imagined you had been ordered to bed for three full days . ’ |
| 21 | The choice of literature , as you realize was meant to be contrasting , and I put book down as an example of what I thought was the worst possible , er , use of use of psychoanalysis , kind of gutter journalism , erm and which you did n't look at , and it 's , it 's no criticism of you erm , because er , you had your work cut out with what you did do , but the reason I put down Gandhi 's Truth , if anybody 's ever read that , have they ? |
| 22 | A Will is a commonsense and legal way to ensure that any possessions you have are given to the people you wish to pass them on to . |
| 23 | And it should happen that it 's God 's will that you have been sent to us for protection and education . |
| 24 | He said ‘ In future you 'll wear pyamas and Kamiz to school , and I have heard that you do n't cover your head , though you have been asked to . |
| 25 | If you have been asked to , observe the contents of pan and report if there is anything unusual , such as blood or a change of colour . |
| 26 | The idea is to imagine you have been called to a ‘ convention ’ to set the rules of the constitution and the social and economic structure of society . |
| 27 | ‘ You have been recommended to me , ’ Corbett answered brusquely . |
| 28 | There are many who are surprised to discover that the words you see before you have been brought to you with little electronic influence beyond that which goes on within the brains of the writer and reader . |
| 29 | This should be used to adjust the model in a manner similar to that which you have been used to so far . |
| 30 | ‘ I believe you have been introduced to the Imperial Adjudicator . ’ |