Example sentences of "you [be] [verb] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Have you been invited to tea ? ’ she asked me crossly . |
| 2 | ‘ How long have you been betrothed to Nahum ? ’ |
| 3 | Since when have you been going to discos , I ask you ? |
| 4 | Have you been talking to Glen or is it what Rupert , Rupert told you about Ted , he did n't know ! |
| 5 | Oh who have you been talking to Mr Major ? |
| 6 | What have you been saying to Jenna ? |
| 7 | But I just lay there , rigid , as if some wizard was standing over me with his arm raised holding a black wand and declaiming , Robina Marquis you are turned to marble . |
| 8 | ‘ And when you need to give her more chloroform , ’ he said , ‘ hand the leg you are holding to Rose — you may take them both on your shoulders if you will , Rose ; it 's important that she does n't regain consciousness during the actual birth . ’ |
| 9 | To whatever degree you have placed the responsibility for your feelings of love and wholeness on someone else , is the degree to which you are bound to disappointment . |
| 10 | JACKEY : By the devil , I think you should know you are speaking to Lady Davers . |
| 11 | Then the person you are speaking to slips in words like blood sports , slaughter , cruel , fluffy creatures . |
| 12 | If you are elected to college committees , do not disdain what appears to be a minor representation . |
| 13 | Yet if you establish criteria for nursing and residential care you are adjusting to resources , not need . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ If you are referring to Mrs. Channing , you 've given me no instructions to regard her as a client . ’ |
| 15 | If you are sent to prison for up to six months , you have to wait seven years ; a fine is wiped clean after five years and probation or conditional discharge takes one year . |
| 16 | You are recalled to Russia as a matter of urgency . |
| 17 | ‘ You are to go to Fincara . |
| 18 | Twisting her handkerchief in her lap she began straight away by saying , ‘ I believe you are to go to Rome soon , sir , ma'am ? ’ |
| 19 | Next the program or event that you are trying to time occurs and then a very similar line records the time when it comes to and end . |
| 20 | Do not be afraid of using your own jargon — the words and phrases dealing with your expertise — provided you are reporting to people in your own profession . |
| 21 | You are related to Michel ? ’ |
| 22 | ’ 'T IS bruited about that the king is unwell and that you are given to displays of temperament ! |
| 23 | And if it 's determined that you are to return to work then your pension would actually will cease . |
| 24 | I mean what you 're looking for is a reduction or what you would have liked to have seen a reduction in the land allocation for employment needs , and yet in the other breath you are saying to North Yorkshire , you should really cater for one hundred percent migration . |
| 25 | WOMEN open your eyes and see how you are chained to husbands and children . |
| 26 | Your dog can be trained to stay or sleep here while you are talking to visitors in the room or , indeed , sitting there on your own . |
| 27 | If you are talking to people you will talk in a quite different mode from that which you will adopt when you 're writing . |
| 28 | Tom Banks and some twelve year old in a thirty five year old body anyway you are not watching it because you are going to bed eight o'clock , is that not right daddy ? |
| 29 | Pack a small bag , he had been told , you are going to Paris . |
| 30 | It runs off a normal car battery and has ample power to drive the punt at a greater rate of knots than you are likely to need , unless you are going to troll for pike ; and then you would be better using a boat rather than a punt . |