Example sentences of "be [noun] [prep] [pers pn] [to-vb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm sorry about you and Garry ; it must be torture for you to lose him , but his wife and child must come first , ’ she said sympathetically . |
| 2 | At a time when the world 's largest nuclear power is in the process of disintegration into separate republics , if not worse , and when 27,000 nuclear weapons exist there , the vast majority of which are capable of inflicting considerable damage on this and other countries , it would be lunacy for us to undermine our nuclear deterrent . |
| 3 | Soon it will be time for them to do it again . |
| 4 | Have a go with the wood , here 's the wood , write Michelle the answer 's no , but later on I 'm sure there 'll be time for you to do it too . |
| 5 | It would be madness for me to refuse you through hurt pride when all I want to do is be with you , as I have just found out . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ If the mistakes had been that obvious there were people around me to tell me where I had gone wrong , but they did n't . |
| 7 | His purpose was not only to prevent his own partisans from uniting to oust him , but also to use the fact that there were differences between them to strengthen his own position . |
| 8 | whether it 's kind of him to keep her there |
| 9 | ‘ It 's kind of you to make me so welcome , ’ she said , dazzling him with a very personal smile . |
| 10 | Where members find it difficult to access courses , seminars , etcetera there is scope for them to organise their own structured discussion groups within their work-place or locality , perhaps using television programmes or videos to provide the structure Subject matter : Technical and regulatory aspects ( knowledge and application ) ; and development of interpersonal and management skills . |
| 11 | That it is time for us to take our rightful place . |
| 12 | ‘ It is time for you to serve me . ’ |
| 13 | It 's time for him to match his maturity with his golf and realise he 's not going to win every time . |
| 14 | I 've got to go now as it 's time for me to get my new dresses fitted . |
| 15 | One evening he rang Bobby , saying : ‘ It 's time for you to do something about Marilyn , she 's bugging me . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ It 's time for you to do your number ’ , Lawford said . |
| 17 | Those are my plans for the future , now it 's time for you to air your views . ’ |
| 18 | It was agony to him to dismiss her . |
| 19 | It was time for them to put their houses in order , ‘ and for the Home Secretary to insist they do ’ . |
| 20 | And he was always up before it was time for her to call him . |
| 21 | Standing up , I assured her that I was n't drunk but tired and that I thought it was time for me to walk her home . |