Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [vb pp] to [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Incensed by such treatment , the hare scratched the Moon 's face with his claws and the two of them are disfigured to this day . |
| 2 | Bingley possesses an enormous fortune and both of them are committed to each other and love one another very deeply . |
| 3 | I am committed to this enterprise : To climb the mountain , to cut down the cedar , and leave behind me an enduring name . ’ |
| 4 | I 'm tied to another organisation for guest speaking anyway , so IMG get nothing of that ’ . |
| 5 | No excitement in my life has ever quite equalled the tense fifteen minutes during which I was connected to that fish . |
| 6 | The worst thing that happened to me was that I was moved to another hut on the Waaf site and found myself amongst a very superior set of girls who worked in Radar . |
| 7 | I was moved to another hostel which was worse . |
| 8 | I was compensated to some extent by the magnificent scenery . |
| 9 | Since well before I was elected to this House , I have pressed for the provision of secure accommodation to end the scandal of young offenders and remand prisoners in particular being held in prison accommodation . |
| 10 | When we got back from Majorca , I was sent to another school for a year , and then I took the so-called eleven-plus examination . |
| 11 | " I was delayed to some extent because the address given to me was 626 Cheyne Walk , which I could not find , but eventually the river police directed me . " |
| 12 | I was appointed to this post , and on my arrival at Lancaster was further promoted to reader ( Associate Professor ) . |
| 13 | Having changed money in one office , I was directed to another office a few streets away to arrange accommodation . |
| 14 | I explained why I was suited to this job . |
| 15 | Well I do n't know why , I was drawn to that colour . |
| 16 | For example , you might have been a mere , much more happy about making a sacrifice for your brother , giving him a sweet , if you knew that on other occasions , he would give one to you , and because you are related to each other . |
| 17 | You 're confined to this place , ’ he waves his gangly arm around his tiny office in the Lords one Wednesday afternoon , ‘ stuff flies at you from left , right and centre , ’ he snorts , as his forehead furrows . |
| 18 | when I was a boy of fifteen you were expected to half acre of neeps in the day . |
| 19 | It 's a shame that someone as obviously capable of expressing himself as you is given to such bursts of undisguised racism and ignorance . |
| 20 | Later , she was transferred to another hospital in Middlesbrough and then to the Frenchay hospital in Bristol to be nearer her home in Chepstow , Gwent . |
| 21 | She was referred to another annorexia specialist in London but she died before she could receive any treatment . |
| 22 | She was committed to this trip , it was too late to do anything about it , but how , she asked herself , was she going to be able to work with a man she did n't even like ? |
| 23 | On Friday her condition deteriorated and she was admitted to another hospital , ’ he said . |
| 24 | On Friday her condition deteriorated and she was admitted to another hospital , ’ he said . |
| 25 | She was taken to several clinics and hospitals . |
| 26 | She was taken to another hospital , where she died on October 8 last year . |
| 27 | We are introduced to both characters at the beginning of each book and as we find out more about them , it 's not that they are rude offensive children , it 's purely down to the innocence that all children have at that age . |
| 28 | ‘ We are committed to this scheme . |
| 29 | We 're alerted to all incidents by the police — mountain rescue is carried out on behalf of the police , though everyone in the mountain rescue organisation is a volunteer . |
| 30 | It 's perfectly obvious we 're attracted to each other . ’ |