Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] [verb] be to " in BNC.
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| 1 | So all I could do was to prance about waving flashcards and realia like a second-rate conjuror at a children 's party , and try not to glance at my watch more than once a minute . |
| 2 | There was an immediate loss of power and all I could do was to crash-land the aircraft . |
| 3 | I 've had my health put right so now all I 'd like is to be rich and famous . |
| 4 | And he used to come to with his black horse and dray and I used to go to help him on a er on a Saturday morning , used to get to about perhaps nine or half past and I 'd go the rounds with him and all I used to do was to er take the peoples things that they 'd bought up the entry you see because they were all entries then . |
| 5 | I hope that as chairman of ICI the contribution that I can make is to be looked upon by people on all levels as someone whose experience they can call on at any time . |
| 6 | A method which you may prefer is to pre-record your commentary section-by-section onto a sound tape ; this tape is not cued , and the sections follow each other with gaps of only a second or so between them . |
| 7 | What you ought to do was to said to him give me a deposit |
| 8 | " Then you must have been to Paris before . " |
| 9 | You must have been to ‘ un cafe ’ , or to ‘ le cinema ’ , or watched ‘ le sport ’ on ‘ la têlêvision ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ I tried to think who might have been to Edouard 's flat . |
| 11 | But then she remembered Tony , and how grateful she would have been to anyone who had had the courage to give her a hint of his real nature … |
| 12 | All you can do is to |
| 13 | The only thing you can do is to quiet him down , to frighten him off . |
| 14 | What you can expect is to be asked to justify your approach to nursing problems . |
| 15 | ‘ Between us we must have been to every bar within a mile radius of Times Square . |
| 16 | So what we 'll do is to gi y Thing about this is you need the practice in in actually crunching |
| 17 | therefore , the rate we can grow is to a large extent governed by the rate we can either attract or develop the specialised management staff we need . |
| 18 | They 'd have been to the Catholic service , had their sins forgiven from the week before , then started again . ’ |
| 19 | The colonial courts , despite their formal structure which was modelled on British lines , were far less alien to the average Sri Lankan than they would have been to the ordinary Englishman . |
| 20 | They were no less repugnant to tens of thousands of men who had fought in the previous war , as they would have been to tens of thousands more who died in it . |
| 21 | Policies and actions should not be dictated by widely held but largely unexamined preconceptions , since the distorted images which they can produce are to the detriment of ordinary people as they age . |
| 22 | It was plain to Lugh , as it should have been to everyone else , that Fergus — and whoever he took with him — was going to get into severe difficulties in the Far Future . |
| 23 | He had been Town Sergeant from 1846 , and a formidable character he must have been to any offender . |
| 24 | He started to give her expert directions and it was plain that he must have been to this particular establishment before . |
| 25 | I mean it was a report it must have been to the member authorities , was it a progress report or deliberations ? |
| 26 | I thought it might 've been to a Royal Garden Party |
| 27 | What a relief it would have been to be able to dismiss it all as a Homes and Gardens photo-call , carefully stage-managed to make visitors drop dead . |
| 28 | He spoke and evidently felt strongly of the degradation that it would have been to the parry to have elected a leader by secret ballot . |
| 29 | ‘ No , ’ said McAllister in her turn , face white , and trembling as though to lose her post would be the tragedy which it would have been to the servant she was pretending to be . |
| 30 | My Troop — 10th Leith ( Balfour Melville ) — frequently marched with the rest of the Edinburgh District Scouts and I found the flag holster a great comfort — as it would have been to " Sister Anna " — since , in the song , she only had a " banner-carrying navel " as I recall . |