Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [verb] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Incensed by such treatment , the hare scratched the Moon 's face with his claws and the two of them are disfigured to this day . |
| 2 | It is an important implication of this that they are never a matter of how the things which have them are related to other things . |
| 3 | Some of them are returned to normal prisons before they ever make the intensive group therapy regime . |
| 4 | Bingley possesses an enormous fortune and both of them are committed to each other and love one another very deeply . |
| 5 | And so I am pasted to this leaning morass , observing the simplest of equations . |
| 6 | My own ferreting campaigns begin in October but from that time onward to the end of the game-shooting season I am limited to outside hedgerows and warrens and burrows well away from the standing crops of game cover and the woods . |
| 7 | ‘ I am referring to that foolish note you wrote me , ’ Theda said , winding her hair into a plait as she spoke , her voice deliberately cool over the tremors inside her . |
| 8 | " I am referring to this . " |
| 9 | I start up the hill towards Dýrafjöđ3ur but before I reach the top I am treated to some Icelandic weather . |
| 10 | I am writing to all Spokes members who offered , on their membership form , to help with cycleroute construction . |
| 11 | Erm I am trying to local plan , places much emphasis on the use of recycled materials to reduce the rate of gravel extraction in the county and the associated environmental damage . |
| 12 | ‘ Say , ’ he said , ‘ you 'd better tell me more precisely about what I am to wear to this ball . |
| 13 | Time buckles and I am skewered to this one moment . |
| 14 | I have just put together a mail shot which I am sending to all Premier League chairmen . |
| 15 | I am dying to that old life , to that old self and I am following in this new life , and therefore , I am going through this , this symbolic act of being baptized , of dying to the old and being raised a new life in Jesus Christ . |
| 16 | I am coming to that precise point . |
| 17 | ‘ I am saying to these people … if they have got information they should come out now and speak publicly . ’ |
| 18 | I am committed to this enterprise : To climb the mountain , to cut down the cedar , and leave behind me an enduring name . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I am committed to these elderly people and I feel they deserve more than this . |
| 20 | Mr Harper said : ‘ I am committed to these elderly people and I feel they deserve more than this . |
| 21 | If their full bellies make me fail to recognise my communality with a woman of colour whose children who do not eat , because she ca n't find work ; or a woman who has no children because her insides are rotten from home abortions and sterilisation ; or if I fail to recognise the lesbian who chooses not to have children , or the woman who remains closeted because her homophobic community is her only life support ; the woman who chooses silence instead of another death ; the woman who is terrified lest any anger triggers the explosion of hers ; if I fail to recognise these women as other faces of myself , then I am contributing to each of their oppressions , but also to my own . |
| 22 | I mean some of our forms , I , I , I have n't worked out what they 're for yet , an , an , and I 'm trying to some run some competitions for the best er , use of , of one particular one , it may well be in this pack . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm listening to some music . |
| 24 | No we 're not , I 'm listening to some music |
| 25 | ‘ I can see them grimacing and thinking : ‘ I ca n't believe I 'm listening to this . |
| 26 | I 'm determined to this you know . |
| 27 | ‘ Anyway , I 've promised not to go until this practice is flourishing , and I 'm sticking to that . ’ |
| 28 | And I du n no who I 'm writing to either . |
| 29 | ‘ Listen , Arty , I 'm writing to this Dagg fellow . |
| 30 | I have an open ticket for where I 'm flying to first . ’ |