Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv] [prep] [pron] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For years father had been nagging away at him to take some interest and prove he had the Miletti flair , yet as soon as he tried to show a bit of initiative everyone got on their high horse about it , father especially , calling him a worthless junkie and I do n't what else besides . |
| 2 | ‘ She would never have been caught up in anything to do with drugs . |
| 3 | But sexual jealousy of an unsatisfactory husband 's former wife — this did n't seem likely : Viola 's own love-life , Greg guessed , had been varied enough for her to ignore any previous entanglements of her second husband 's . |
| 4 | My relationship with the director is therefore rather different from most producers ; I am looking not for someone to watch and admire but for someone who can deliver the result . |
| 5 | Coun Williams retorted : ‘ The fact that they are looking around for someone to blame is proof they really do n't want to do it . ’ |
| 6 | And and they 've been waiting since for it to happen . |
| 7 | Had he been waiting there for her to return ? |
| 8 | Will he ensure that all discussions that take place are opened up for us to criticise and assist ? |
| 9 | When Cousteau comes back with the divers and equipment , Van Gelder and I are going down with them to have a look at this plane . |
| 10 | They 're very much involved with networked community care , to use their own phrase , and those of you who want to know more about them , they 've got a stall outside , and er , their wares so to say , are set out for you to see . |
| 11 | I 'll be writing soon to you to beg your help ( not too demanding ) in a large language-collecting project — consists of sending us any typewritten ‘ bumf ’ etc. from the school that you 'd be happy to let us have . |
| 12 | I think that bay is very underrated and should be used more by itself to reveal its flavour . |
| 13 | But erm , yes , so I still do n't know what 's happening with that yet , and I 'm waiting also for them to confirm a date for this first sort of Do Business in France seminar , that we 're going to help them with , which was originally going to be February , and is now going to be March . |
| 14 | Do you want the kind of holiday they are willing to consider , or will you be going along with it to satisfy them ? |
| 15 | she might be holding still for me to hear : |
| 16 | Just to say that we do monitor the numbers going into , to residential care very very closely so we would we would be able to tell sort of reasonably early in the year if things were going erm way of our projections of our predictions and er we would obviously be coming back to you to see to er to change our budgets erm if , if that proved necessary . |
| 17 | Two men arrive to say your farm will be taken away from you to form part of a large state farm . |
| 18 | Two men arrive to say your farm will be taken away from you to form part of a large state farm . |
| 19 | All you have to do is write and tell us the name and address of your favourite bar — anywhere in the country — and a case of Kulta could be sent there for you to collect or even enjoy on the premises . |
| 20 | If a vote is necessary , ballot papers will be sent out for you to return by 12th April for the result to be announced at the A.G.M. |
| 21 | So I seek the authority of Jesus ; and I am led on by him to see the authority of the Bible . |
| 22 | ‘ By the way , trusty watchman , ’ said Grimm , ‘ how fruitfully did you occupy yourself while you were lying there with nothing to do and a hood over your bean ? |
| 23 | And I , and you , you were going on about something to do with your job yeah ? |
| 24 | An expatriate Iranian satirist , Hadi Khorsandi , later claimed in fun to have had the ear of Rafsanjani , who told him that his discussions with McFarlane ‘ were meant only for him to practise the English language … all the contacts he had had with Americans over the past year had been made for the purpose of learning irregular verbs . ’ |
| 25 | The latter were passed around for us to examine . |
| 26 | I guess Chrissy 's coming in for something to eat . |
| 27 | Dancer 's fixed up for me to make a bomb coaching movie stars in Palm Springs . |
| 28 | It is left entirely to you to make sure that your garment pieces will fit together correctly . |
| 29 | To give a concrete example , there is in the early development of vertebrates a process called gastrulation , during which a hollow ball of cells , the blastula , is folded in on itself to form a ball of two cell layers , with an opening , the blastopore , at one end . |
| 30 | When Her Majesty used this coach , a platform , or flat truck was placed ahead of it to give an unobstructed view . |