Example sentences of "[vb infin] [be] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | You ca n't imagine how much of a help you 've been to me . |
| 2 | I see you 've been to the hospital , or something like that . |
| 3 | Er right I need somebody out there who has n't done this before erm let's see we 've been to Ripon , been to Thirsk , erm been over to Scarborough with Dr Rock , North Allerton no I do n't like North Allerton well I mean I love North Allerton no no I want to go south I want to go Tadcaster way have we anybody down there ? |
| 4 | I thought it might 've been to a Royal Garden Party |
| 5 | What I do not need is to be awoken at 4 a.m. in the depths of winter , forced from my bed and summoned to gawp at an empty space where once a football stand stood . |
| 6 | it 's like writing an essay , you 've got to try and get as mi many things in as you would do when you if you were writing a full essay but instead of writing a paragraph on each thing you write a sentence on each thing try and cover as many bases , then , that 's how you how you get very good marks , it 's not , they are not trying to test your erm your deep knowledge about any one thing in these short answers they are testing the broad , broad venture of your , of your knowledge , alright , so what you want to try and do is to is a blunderbuss approach when you ans you answer these , these questions . |
| 7 | All you can do is to |
| 8 | But what I wan na do is to , I 'll get you all eventually . |
| 9 | The only thing you can do is to quiet him down , to frighten him off . |
| 10 | So what we 'll do is to gi y Thing about this is you need the practice in in actually crunching |
| 11 | therefore , the rate we can grow is to a large extent governed by the rate we can either attract or develop the specialised management staff we need . |
| 12 | What you can expect is to be asked to justify your approach to nursing problems . |
| 13 | So all I could do was to prance about waving flashcards and realia like a second-rate conjuror at a children 's party , and try not to glance at my watch more than once a minute . |
| 14 | There was an immediate loss of power and all I could do was to crash-land the aircraft . |
| 15 | ‘ What I 'd really like is to be a ploughshare . |
| 16 | I 've had my health put right so now all I 'd like is to be rich and famous . |
| 17 | One hundred and sixty Old Boys a very substantial proportion had volunteered before conscription was introduced , and many more thereafter , and the names of the fifty-two who did not return were to be recorded on the School 's War Memorial . |
| 18 | Few of the youngsters will have been to a big match ; what they are emulating is what they have seen on television in shop windows and heard on their transistors . |
| 19 | Angela Brickell would not have been to his taste . |
| 20 | ‘ The prime advantage of an exit charge would have been to the investor because he would have got into our funds at a nil cost and out again at a very low cost if he held his investment for , say , three years . ’ |
| 21 | The effect would have been to distance even more those living in the territories from the decision-making machinery of the PLO outside . |
| 22 | As three cheers rang out from a few dozen loyal supporters gathered in the street below , Mr Kinnock took off his glasses , put them in his pocket , and gave a wistful smile for what might have been to the colleagues clustered around him . |
| 23 | He had been Town Sergeant from 1846 , and a formidable character he must have been to any offender . |
| 24 | What a relief it would have been to be able to dismiss it all as a Homes and Gardens photo-call , carefully stage-managed to make visitors drop dead . |
| 25 | Most travel journalists will not have been to the Giants ' Grotto , of course , but they will certainly have seen the handy paragraph in the travel company press pack . |
| 26 | The colonial courts , despite their formal structure which was modelled on British lines , were far less alien to the average Sri Lankan than they would have been to the ordinary Englishman . |
| 27 | He started to give her expert directions and it was plain that he must have been to this particular establishment before . |
| 28 | It may be that demands were made beyond the capability of a particular individual , or the person concerned may simply have been to some degree in ill health . |
| 29 | If this was the case all he would have done would have been to Hegelianize Ricardo . |
| 30 | I detest the noisy unanimity of Picasso 's heirs , in particular that of Bernard and Paloma Picasso : the former thinks that ‘ the Reina Sofia is a wonderful place for ‘ Guernica' 's last journey , while the latter believes that Guernica' 's last journey should have been to the Prado ’ . |