Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] be [verb] to " in BNC.
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1 | I did actually get over to work for them in 1968–70 and 1971 , but this story I am referring to was in 1967 when I was just paying a visit and was given a bed for the night in the hostel . |
2 | By wishes I am referring to the internal directions and aspirations that people have for their own professional lives and development : their preferences , their ambitions , their chosen career path , their enthusiasms and above all their values . |
3 | To rapturous applause he told them : ‘ For the next two-and-a-half hours I am going to work your asses like you 've never been worked before . |
4 | That is Stoke I 'm going to Durham . |
5 | Those who pursue comparisons of the kind I am referring to are likely to be impressed by the staying-power of a literary preoccupation to which a variety of temperaments and compulsions has been attracted , and could well be inclined to believe that Pechorin 's duel and indifference may have been among the precedents that weighed , a century later , with a woman bent on contriving her appointment with destiny . |
6 | If you have such a policy if you were to have criteria of the kind I 'm alluded to erm does that still leave it too open in North Yorkshire , might it still be too wide too many erm er opportunities might meet locations might meet these criteria . |
7 | The fact that the ordnance survey map of Ben Lawers proudly declared a Visitor Centre at the base left me no choice in the route I was to take to the top . |
8 | I was sitting there waiting for the grub to show when Martin Amis came through the open door — you know , the writer I was chatting to in the pub the other night . |
9 | Of course I am addicted to Alexis although I admit the entire thing is very far fetched . |
10 | Of course I was sent to bed without any supper . |
11 | It was there all the time but I had turned my back upon it in a sense , so when I got converted , and of course I was listening to the Big Man 's comments on events and I recognized the validity of what he was saying . |
12 | The day before the election I was treated to an unsolicited political speech on behalf of the Conservative Party . |
13 | This afternoon I am going to a memorial service for a woman who devoted her whole life to caring for others . |
14 | One dank afternoon I was summoned to the Gorengs ' lounge . |
15 | my make up and the way I dress reflects the meetings I 'm going to . |
16 | It would be interesting to know whether Petrey really does hold the views I am attributing to him , and whether he thinks that speech act theories of semantics are therefore based on a fundamental error . |
17 | ‘ Perhaps falling in the water — ’ Ronni glared at him , bluffing , struggling to get back in control of her emotions ‘ — was n't the nasty experience I was referring to . ’ |
18 | I 'm going , for work experience I 'm going to Saxted Ministry up there hopefully to see what it 's like looking after children you know , like a nursery and everything . |
19 | I 've found that my perception of acting and movie-making has changed drastically since I hung up my addiction , and I 've finally realized what damage I was doing to my career . |
20 | Mr Chairman I am going to be brief within the er triscale and resources we have available to us we may , I think , a reason of what an attempt to get back in current idiom , back to basics . |
21 | Thinking I was going to be pulled into some thicket and raped and murdered . |
22 | I first recall the line in 1959 when as a young boy scout I was taken to camp at Pont-y-Pant . |
23 | As a result I was bidden to Clarence House for a pre-lunch gin and tonic with her and Princess Margaret . |
24 | It completely slipped my mind I was going to be accused of theft ! |
25 | After fighting with the 8th Army at El Alamein I was sent to Leros via Palestine . |
26 | well er , I 'm , excuse me David I 'm talking to Chris . |
27 | The day after returning to Vancouver I was called to Ira Dilworth 's office at five o'clock . |
28 | As the role of er , business in the community is well at the top of personal agenda , in my job as I B M Personnel Director and Director of Corporate Affairs , the Corporate Affairs bit , er , is the piece I 'm going to be talking about . |
29 | I know it sounds stupid , but I was trying to do all my sessions at the same speed I was used to at home . |
30 | ‘ Next term I 'm going to be teaching part of a course on the influence of gender on style , ’ Loretta added , again to little response . |