Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [pers pn] [be] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know what it is to be alone , to fear death , I know and she is unaware that I know , and yet I have to go to her , I have to leave the safety of my room . |
| 2 | Today we know what it is to be ‘ professionalized ’ , experts at our job . |
| 3 | I was always doing landscapes outside ; so I know what it is to be working out in the field in December at six o'clock in the morning . |
| 4 | We are able to forgive because we know what it is to be forgiven , and the love of God shed abroad in our heart gives us a new capacity to do so . |
| 5 | As someone who came from a happy , steady home , she might be able to offer help in some small way to some of these disadvantaged youngsters , a few of whom hardly know what it is to be loved at all . |
| 6 | Engineering recruits are required to show that they know what it is to be exposed to the hard world of reality by gaining direct experience in day-to-day aviation practice . |
| 7 | I know what it is to be cursed with that temper . ’ |
| 8 | My hon. Friend the Member for Aberdeen , South ( Mr. Doran ) and other colleagues know what it is to which I refer . |
| 9 | I never know what it was to , not do anything , go , go to the doctor 's and be bad or anything like that . |
| 10 | I know what I am to him . |
| 11 | ‘ I take it I am to be investigated ? |