Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [verb] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Some of them are returned to normal prisons before they ever make the intensive group therapy regime . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I 'm referring to oral tradition . |
| 6 | So I felt like , I 'm not getting on that phone again because I 'm talking to different people , you |
| 7 | I 'm working to new income and expenditure rules from next year . |
| 8 | I 'm used to similar excerpts in The Telegraph and in the local press , but do n't expect them to be so boring . |
| 9 | I 'm used to hard work , ’ Tess insisted . |
| 10 | But I 'm reduced to verbal inanities , he thought . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I 'm going to Foxy 's . |
| 13 | I was led into all these commitments in a very friendly and deferential spirit , and in a similar spirit of friendship and hospitality I was invited to numerous social engagements , from impressive lunch in honour of the Minister of Education to an invitation to a private home in Jaipur , where my kind host and hostess had gone to the trouble of preparing sandwiches , cake , chips ( without the fish ) and pudding , in case I should not like the Indian dishes served for the other guests ! |
| 14 | I was listening to weird stuff like Iron Butterfly when I was , like , still learning my alphabet ! |
| 15 | So I was probably enjoying British progressive rock at the same time I was listening to American jazz . ’ |
| 16 | I was sent to Nongkhai province in the North East of Thailand on the Maekhong River across from the capital of Laos . |
| 17 | We get sent all over erm the country , southern England I , I was sent to different hospitals to learn about different things , to learn about erm psychiatry and obstetrics and medicine and then erm you also do some er training back in your own hospital , but it 's not big enough for all the doctors to stay there all the time well the baby doctors . |
| 18 | I arrived expecting high rise hotels and crowded shores , instead I was treated to pretty villages built in honey coloured stone and fields of poppies . |
| 19 | When I arrived , I was treated to magnificent views of the Pyrenees in the distance , but was disappointed to find the church , which was the reason for the trek , was closed . |
| 20 | I was referring to other more prominent hon. Members . |
| 21 | At lunch-times , I was given to mental lapses . |
| 22 | I was expected to double de-clutch , better for the gear box , and to talk my way through signs and observations . |
| 23 | Then I was promoted to assistant cashier at the Wandsworth branch where I had to deal with the toll accounts to go to head office as well as the share accounts and the dividends . |
| 24 | I was promoted to assistant manageress in the clothes shop , and worked a further eight months before leaving to have my first child . |
| 25 | I was used to long-distance safety in my work , and in the past to many physical dangers , but never to this sort of risk . |
| 26 | Oh it was heavy but I was used to heavy stuff on . |
| 27 | I was warming to young Clive . |
| 28 | I was going to old Chris , I said I said he should play in the class . |
| 29 | Yes , I thought , but then there 's , but briefly er Sue , I was going to wanted to point out in fact er you just er if you do n't mind Paul I 'll just go back |
| 30 | and er , I was saying to old |