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Example sentences of "[be] [noun sg] [prep] [pron] [to-vb] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	‘ I 'm sorry about you and Garry ; it must be torture for you to lose him , but his wife and child must come first , ’ she said sympathetically .
2	And it would be shame to him to hold back and let a fighter like Douglas be shot to death from a distance , with never an enemy at hand to exchange blows with him .
3	Of course it must be agony for him to go shopping for me ( what does he do at the chemist 's ? ) , so I suppose he prefers to get it all over in one go .
4	I dare not spend another farthing , and it would be suicide for me to go to the bank , even if Richard agreed , which he wo n't . ’
5	Let me straight away , er , that it might be folly of me to assume that er , you know a great deal about I B M. By the way I B M stands for International Business Machines , not as , some people used to think , International Ballistic Missiles .
6	At a time when the world 's largest nuclear power is in the process of disintegration into separate republics , if not worse , and when 27,000 nuclear weapons exist there , the vast majority of which are capable of inflicting considerable damage on this and other countries , it would be lunacy for us to undermine our nuclear deterrent .
7	Soon it will be time for them to do it again .
8	But , even when people have had spells of very bad illness , they may still live for many years and there will be time for them to make good plans for their children .
9	‘ It 'll be time for me to go and collect Maria soon — ‘
10	When the time comes an' I ca n't lift a hundredweight of sugar or me old black pan , then it 'll be time for me to retire upstairs for good . ’
11	It 'll soon be time for me to write again .
12	She had a point ; the sports clothes were in the first part of the programme — there should be time for her to change into the wedding dress for the finale .
13	Have a go with the wood , here 's the wood , write Michelle the answer 's no , but later on I 'm sure there 'll be time for you to do it too .
14	‘ It 'll soon be time for us to take control , seriously . ’
15	‘ There will be time for us to have a look round Westminster Abbey , ’ said Lady Selvedge , not in the least disturbed by the upsetting little incident of the pudding .
16	It would be madness for me to refuse you through hurt pride when all I want to do is be with you , as I have just found out . ’
17	Since a mother generally has a new baby every four and a half years , there may have been pressure on her to speed up each youngster 's training , to leave time to care for the latest addition to the family .
18	At first it were good because it were incentive for her to keep going because she 'd , you know , paid so much but toward the end , she said , it were getting ridiculous .
19	Yeah , because it 's money for you to spend
20	Well , tell him it 's kind of him to agree to let me stay here , but I 'm turning down his invitation . ’
21	whether it 's kind of him to keep her there
22	‘ It 's kind of you to say so .
23	‘ It 's kind of you to say so .
24	‘ It 's kind of you to make me so welcome , ’ she said , dazzling him with a very personal smile .
25	‘ It 's kind of you to help when you 've got your own practice to run .
26	‘ It 's kind of you to ring , Miss Rose . ’
27	There is work for them to do .
28	At this point there is need for me to give some detail about the shape and nature of the primary curriculum to which all children should have access .
29	If we only opened a door partly er there is room for somebody to hide behind it and then when we go into the room then we would encounter problems .
30	Junctions controlled by traffic lights do not go forward when the traffic lights are green unless there is room for you to clear the junction safely , never go forward when the red , amber lights are shown together , when traffic lights have a green arrow filter signal , do not get into the lane when filtering is allowed unless you .