Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] be to " in BNC.
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| 1 | And all thanks I got was to be sacked at end of summer — though only for a few months , that is , 'cos of the revolution . |
| 2 | The last thing I expected was to be woken from unconsciousness by an air hostess with the face of an angel , gently patting on my shoulder and telling me that the plane had just landed in Miami . |
| 3 | McCrea sums up the Western code by his declaration that all his wants is to ‘ enter my house justified ’ while Scott is more easy-going and hence survives to mourn his partner in a world where a Westerner is more likely to be an unshaven brute played by Warren Oates than a white-hatted , true-hearted paladin . |
| 4 | And a good thing as I say is to just erm highlight the stuff that you want if you 've |
| 5 | We are determined to make it work — the last thing I want is to be a laughing stock among local farmers if I fail . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ What I want is to be in charge of myself , to decide what I will or will not do . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ All I want is to be able to go out and play with my friends , ’ she says . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's so wonderful — all I want is to be with her and I get terribly possessive . |
| 9 | ‘ He ca n't hold my grandmother 's misguided behaviour against me when all I want is to be part of the family , to know I belong . ’ |
| 10 | and all I want is to type down there , cos that 's all I do |
| 11 | THERE is a first time for everything : Aladdin was the first panto I 'd been to and the first Frank Bruno has performed in . |
| 12 | All the doctors , psychiatrists and groups I 'd been to so far for help had made me feel worse than ever : could she be any different ? |
| 13 | ‘ I 'd been to a party at Cipriani 's in The Strand which went on all hours . |
| 14 | I 'd been to Rome before , of course , but Naples … well , it 's something altogether different . |
| 15 | Though I 'd visited the family in Al Ain and Abu Dhabi , it had been two years since I 'd been to their camp on the Gulf . |
| 16 | I 'd been to thirteen convents but I had n't really been to school properly because I was working by the time I was thirteen . |
| 17 | He asked me if I 'd been to Eton , but seemed more or less satisfied when I told him I was educated at Cheltenham Ladies ’ College . |
| 18 | Some days after I 'd been to the supermarket for the week 's shopping I 'd be smashed , there 'd be nothing left . |
| 19 | Well , I dropped in one evening , a summer evening it was , as I recall it , after I 'd been to dinner at the Chelsea Arts Club and I felt in urgent need of a little female company . |
| 20 | I 'd been , a few weeks ago I 'd been to a wedding , and it was the most boring |
| 21 | When she 'd calmed down she asked me if I 'd been to the doctors , and we made arrangements for her to take me down . |
| 22 | And I 'd been to As I tell you , I 'd been to night school , joinery classes . |
| 23 | And I 'd been to As I tell you , I 'd been to night school , joinery classes . |
| 24 | Anyway after about a week , all men as been worked in the pits , By the way I 'd been down I 'd been to the . |
| 25 | Like , I 'd been to church , been to Sunday School , so I knew all the stuff in the Bible , but I guess I needed to envisage it … see it , in my own terms . ’ |
| 26 | I , I only took one case on after I was married er and that er that was a maternity case I 'd been to the first baby . |
| 27 | ‘ I suppose you thought I 'd been to school : |
| 28 | I 'd been to sea for a few years . |
| 29 | He I I 'd been to them over a a period of about two years erm with all sorts o of different problems and in the end he said , You know I can increase your drugs but that wo n't help . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'd been to the leisure centre , just across the road . |