Example sentences of "[pers pn] to be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A seemingly exasperated Jesus says , Oh faithless and perverse generation , how long am I to be with you ? |
| 2 | Dreadful for you to be without Mrs Howard — I was a day or two without Maria , so I can completely sympathize . |
| 3 | You need to be confident , therefore , before you embark , that this is a good person for you to be with . |
| 4 | ‘ Ought n't you to be with them ? ’ |
| 5 | Or sorry because it embarrasses you to be with me because of it ? ’ |
| 6 | What environment do you think , trying to read my my mind , which do you think would be a comfortable area for you to be with ? |
| 7 | However , I must warn you to be on your guard and to approach the picture gallery with caution . |
| 8 | I do n't pay you to be late , I pay you to be on time . ’ |
| 9 | But I have already warned you to be on your guard against anything that any anthropologist has ever written about kinship terminologies , so I will not pursue the matter here . |
| 10 | Just want you to be on the safe side . |
| 11 | But you to be on one of them in n it ? |
| 12 | For the same reason , I suggest that you avoid overseas package tours that require you to be at the airport in the early hours of the morning , or very late at night , when you may have difficulty travelling to the airport safely . |
| 13 | We want you to be among the very first in Britain to benefit from these developments and to enjoy them ! |
| 14 | ‘ Michael 's not the sort of person who wants you to be around all the time , ’ she said . |
| 15 | I do n't want you to be in trouble with your mistress . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I would n't like you to be in the wrong situation … ’ |
| 17 | The preferable position , I 've got to say is the position two , unless the circumstances allow you to be in position one . |
| 18 | ‘ He wants you to be in his next show . ’ |
| 19 | I 'd prefer you to be in that snowdrift , ’ he said in biting tones . |
| 20 | I 'm sure it would be better for you to be in your own room in your own home again with your Mum and Dad who love you to look after you , than amongst strangers . |
| 21 | Now I just want to end this morning session by reminding you to be in your seats by two twenty . |
| 22 | Because , by the time we reach the house where the twins are staying , I expect you to be in a friendly , pleasant state of mind . |
| 23 | It is not necessary to book seats in advance but we would ask you to be in the McEwan Hall not later than 10.20 am . |
| 24 | What time have you to be in Clackmannan ? |
| 25 | Now looking round I prefer you to be in twos and threes for the job you 're going to do . |
| 26 | So I really want you to be like a proper sort of little girl . |
| 27 | I do n't want you to be like them … like Bella 's set . |
| 28 | Only then you turned up on my doorstep with some rigmarole about Sadie , and I was disappointed , because I did n't want you to be like all the rest . |
| 29 | Not unless B S I we to were to exs , expect to see that we have audited everything before they came . |
| 30 | What has not been developed to the same extent is the suggestiveness of his work on the novel for theories of genre , a suggestiveness which I will only touch on here , but which seems to me to be worth a great deal more investigation and discussion . |