Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] be [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | As post-war critics of both social and economic policy were to indicate , strategic planning with clear long-term goals and the machinery to implement them was rarely to be found . |
| 2 | I did n't even know they were there to be quite honest . |
| 3 | Sun and ICL say they are there to ‘ endorse ’ HyperSparc , though neither rules out use of the part in future system plans . |
| 4 | Aye , I 'm sorry , listen you 're here to damn well work you 're not going off to enjoy |
| 5 | Despite what Dane had said about facing up to the ghosts in her past and laying them to rest , it seemed she was still to be haunted by them . |
| 6 | As the front-man , ever in vision , I accept I 'm there to be shot at . |
| 7 | The thing is , I mean we 're hardly to getting to grips with other people . |
| 8 | it 's completely anonymous number you know it 's only to be on that , said I 'll wipe it off then , you bloody well wo n't , I think he wants to tell people before he can say very wrong , could say something personal , if it was personal , no longer it , no you were n't personal to you , but I 'm quite happy to arrange it if you wish , no , no , no , no , no , , I should n't have to tell you not to take my points in full , there we go it 's driving me doing that in the factory having without people 's permission , I want to know , I ask permission if I 'd er wanted to as a without being asked to do it , I would of gone and seen personnel and asked , I would not of dreamed of doing it in a work 's situation unless I was asked , say anything personal I 'd turned it off not that it , apart from me and Stuart |
| 9 | Anyway I went to see Foxy at lunchtime and erm and he said that erm er and I mentioned it to him and I said you know do n't go up to Sal and say Jess is feeling like erm you know , feeling that he 's , feeling really jealous because er if , if Sal is trying to get back that will just like please him , you know , if he is trying , if that 's the whole aim of the whole , you know , the operation then , then he 'll just feel pleased and it will also embarrass Jessica and she does n't want and if , and if it 's not , if it was nothing , you know , she 'll feel embarrassed so please do n't say anything and he said no no I 'll just make some subtle , subtle comment and he went up to , he told me that he went up to Sal and he goes erm and he says how 's everything going with Jessica and Sal goes yeah it 's good and , and he go erm cos er Phil erm cos Foxy goes oh cos it 's , it 's going really well with me and Catriona , it 's going really well I 'm really enjoying it , what about you , you know , and Sal goes yeah , it 's really good and Foxy goes erm you know is it , is it a long term thing then , you looking for a long term thing do you think and Sal goes yeah , what about you and Foxy goes yeah yeah definitely yeah , you know , cos he was doing it subtly so I came back and I said to Jess you know really , an and Foxy said there was nothing strange about , it was no f you know it was definitely to fe s f erm Sal was er you know being truthful , there was not like erm yeah well yeah you know and trying to get off the subject , it was n't it was completely , yeah , it 's brilliant , going really well , really enjoying it and it 's gon na be long term sort of thing . |
| 10 | Findings and reasons need not be lengthy ; indeed brevity clearly indicating them is often to be preferred to a lengthy and possibly ambiguous record . |
| 11 | To read We is constantly to hive to rethink the issue . |
| 12 | What , you mean they 're only to be young leaders there . |
| 13 | ‘ Be a darling , ’ he went on , ‘ do n't mention I 'm here to anybody . |
| 14 | I thought I was just to be shut in the cellar , as usual , the light turned off , as usual , the better to think out my wickedness , the better to pray for forgiveness . |
| 15 | I 'll come with you , I said , I thought you were away to Mandy 's . |
| 16 | And Lucy knew they were there to be lovers , Jay knew like her heartbeat that they would make love . |
| 17 | On the other hand when the Goigama made money payments in return for services or labour it was always to people who were right outside the system such as shopkeepers or Tamil labourers hired on a casual basis . |
| 18 | She saw no sequence in what was happening , and no coherence , but she knew it was there to be seen , if only she could achieve the right angle of vision . |
| 19 | This did n't last long , however , as one customer thought it was there to be consumed ! |
| 20 | John Bitumen ( or Raging Bullshit as he 's known amongst his colleagues ) , is never one to sit on the fence ( vandalising it is more to his nature ) . |
| 21 | and a cup of coffee and a cigarette , and I always do that but this day I was so tired after the doing the garden , both gardens like and fucking weeding them all and doing everything else and brushing out the back and doing I said to him for fuck 's sake do them dishes for me for a change William would you I said , so I got er got myself in the bath said I 'm away to bingo , so William 's gone out what happened ? eight , I had eight he had one you may get yourself I said ah fuck no wonder I have no fucking luck , so on the settee and said I 'm not going anywhere , I sat for ten minutes then I said ah fuck you why should I sit here so I lifted the car keys and walked out again then , fucking zooming out of and there was John coming up like that |
| 22 | Surely Richmond is Beulah , I said to the Princess , who said it was only to be hoped no wicked Fairy envied us our pleasant lot . |
| 23 | The links between proteins , the lowly building blocks of the brain , and personalities , the high abstractions of the mind , are undoubtedly going to be convoluted — but evidence from both ends suggests they are there to be found . |
| 24 | He supposed it was only to be expected . |
| 25 | Right then you suspected he was more to those Apaches than a friend or a boss . |
| 26 | If there were games to be played or work to be done or stories to be read it was always to Rachel that she would turn ; Rachel who went out and came in when she said she would and said ‘ yes ’ or ‘ no ’ , not from whim or temper , but with authority . |