Example sentences of "[Wh pn] be [verb] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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1 | When process of care measures were reanalysed after excluding the 21 patients who were referred back to the hospital clinic other than through the prompting system , all process of care measures in table IV remained more frequent in the prompted subgroup ( n=65 prompted subjects ) . |
2 | Or maybe a process of natural selection had winnowed out the overworked and discontented , the theoretical and jaded and left the few who were propelled back to the school by the same affection , curiosity and remembered enthusiasm that had drawn us . |
3 | No stranger honeymooners could have gathered there than the gangs of parliament members — 67 of them — who were ferried down to the Bekaa in Syrian helicopters and armoured limousines , guarded by squads of bodyguards armed with anti-tank rockets . |
4 | Here is a special Times supplement , no less , devoted to the future recovery of Lebanon in which I write of the ships returning to Beirut port , of the re-opening of central banking facilities , the renovations at the temples of Baalbek , the arrival of the first postwar tourists — Swedes , of course — who were bussed off to the ruins of the Palestinian camp of Tel al-Za'atar and then to the Bekaa . |
5 | At twenty past ten Sandison put his book away and sat back to watch the people who were walking down to the square . |
6 | The plot , such as it is , involves Billy The Kid ( Emilio Estevez — cardboard characters a speciality ) being given a pardon by the Governor , shafted by politicians , springing his old mates from the nick , and making a run for the border pursued by another old mate who 's sold out to the law . |
7 | The plot , such as it is , involves Billy The Kid ( Emilio Estevez — cardboard characters a speciality ) being given a pardon by the Governor , shafted by politicians , springing his old mates from the nick , and making a run for the border pursued by another old mate who 's sold out to the law . |
8 | Spurs have called reserve team striker John Hendry into the squad , plus Nicky Barmby , who was called up to the England Under-21 squad this week . |
9 | The preoccupied merchant , whose attention is totally bound up with his commercial affairs and who consequently neglects his wife , is a stock figure of fabliau-type narrative ( compare , for instance , La Bourgoise d'Orliens , Le Cuvier , " The bathtub " , or L'Enfant qui fu remis au soleil , " The child who was given back to the sun " ) . |
10 | who was walking down to the telephone kiosk and asked all the questions about the area so that I |