Example sentences of "[noun sg] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Of course I am addicted to Alexis although I admit the entire thing is very far fetched . |
| 7 | Of course I was sent to bed without any supper . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The day before the election I was treated to an unsolicited political speech on behalf of the Conservative Party . |
| 10 | This afternoon I am going to a memorial service for a woman who devoted her whole life to caring for others . |
| 11 | One dank afternoon I was summoned to the Gorengs ' lounge . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Thinking I was going to be pulled into some thicket and raped and murdered . |
| 16 | I first recall the line in 1959 when as a young boy scout I was taken to camp at Pont-y-Pant . |
| 17 | As a result I was bidden to Clarence House for a pre-lunch gin and tonic with her and Princess Margaret . |
| 18 | It completely slipped my mind I was going to be accused of theft ! |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I know it sounds stupid , but I was trying to do all my sessions at the same speed I was used to at home . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . |
| 22 | Nicknames are a favourite pastime with small boys and so during the next four years and one term I was known to my school mates as ‘ Pavement ’ . |
| 23 | The department I was attached to was fighting an uphill battle against prejudice from the old school clique and the niggardly allowances from the Treasury . |
| 24 | One of the few clues to Joan Main 's whereabouts appeared to be a birthday card she 's sent to her mother from Newport . |
| 25 | In future she is going to be harder . |
| 26 | Almost a year after presenting to the accident and emergency department she was referred to our chest unit for observation and treatment . |
| 27 | It is the future you are walking to . |
| 28 | In spring she was sent to their country place with mamina and some nice English tutor and they stayed all summer . |
| 29 | Because if you 're speaking from a script you 're going to be speaking like this . |
| 30 | Must be this wedding you 're going to tomorrow . |