Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [verb] [noun sg] to [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I 'm not , but I 'm sending Curnow to Carbis Bay to talk to the old man . |
2 | Well I said what you looking at you skinny thing , and she just , how dare you speak to me like that , and I just who the hell you looking at you ugly thing , I 'm going to Espania tomorrow , cos I 'm going holiday to El Spania , right then |
3 | I could see that if I were to give way to retroscendence the average supermarket gondola , stuck with myriad products like a hedgehog with spines , would become a mystic test-bed able through its thousand portals to suck me into individual sagas so complex , so durable , that I would perhaps never reemerge . |
4 | SUMMERCHILD : Actually , I do feel a little as if I were coming face to face with my past in some kind of way . |
5 | Because I was born twin to Grainne … because the Royal Line must never divide … |
6 | Sometime during 1950 , I think before the summer , before the dresses were made , I was taken north to Burnley and into the sheds . |
7 | In order to keep an erection long enough to fake orgasm , I had to imagine that I was making love to Karen . |
8 | We were now at a point of safety , half a mile from the village of El Ouata , so I was allowed access to supplies in the Land Rover . |
9 | And also the Railway used it and er it was used elsewhere , and it 's interesting this , I noticed that erm B R have recently erected er er this type of fencing er which is adds insult to injury possibly , on the at er . |
10 | But these are not those Gates , thought Fergus , these are the Gates of a place reserved for those who are denied admittance to Paradise . |
11 | Double discrimination is experienced by older disabled people whose needs are not acknowledged and who are denied access to benefits available to younger people . |
12 | It is as well to be clear in this way that you are giving priority to suspense because , of course , there are elements of suspense not only in almost all crime fiction but in almost all fiction of any sort . |
13 | The RAF who 're delivering aid to Sarajevo know all too well of the risks . |
14 | When you 're giving feedback to people , yes , there were going to bad things about what they 've done , yes , there 's going to be good things , but if you can catch the bad things between two good things , even if the good things are just saying thank you , they 're going to go away with a bigger smile on their face , and probably feel more motivated for the next time they do that task . |
15 | One result of this moral panic was that , even as the anxiety mentioned by Furlong ( ibid. ) forced us to react to these public demands with some arrests , we insiders with ‘ special knowledge ’ , who were working face to face with the counter-culture , knew there was a different social reality abroad which we could never adequately explain to the entrepreneur or encapsulate for the media headline . |
16 | And there is still another way of understanding time , which is that when a mother gives birth , she is giving birth to time itself , to a ‘ life-time ’ , and she is thus in some sense beyond time itself . |
17 | She is beyond time , and yet she is giving birth to time itself At the moment of birth , her baby is the very youngest member of the human race , its star of hope and its future . |
18 | in the way she is afforded access to opportunities for promotion , transfer or training or by refusing or deliberately omitting to afford her access to any such opportunities ; or |
19 | She was standing face to face with a boy in the public park at the end of Decimus Street . |
20 | A trucker named Keith who was delivering coal to Newcastle . |
21 | who was causing suffering to others . |
22 | Hamilton Green was appointed deputy leader and Seeram Prashad general secretary ( replacing Ranji Chandisingh , hitherto Deputy Prime Minister , who was appointed ambassador to Moscow ) . |
23 | The climax of the account is the fact that one of the ten who was cured return to Jesus to thank him ( Luke 17:15 ) . |
24 | We are brought face to face with the question , ‘ What is the purpose of human life itself ? ’ |
25 | ‘ The day before we arrived in Gibraltar we received a signal from Admiral Sir James Somerville of Force ‘ H ’ who was in command of the operation , saying that on arrival in harbour we were to berth stern to stern to ‘ Ark Royal ’ so that some of our Hurricanes could be transferred to her and rolled off ‘ Furious ’ direct onto ‘ Ark Royal ’ . |
26 | Before I could deliver another , he had grasped my wrist and we were fighting face to face , nearly falling into the fire as we did so . |
27 | ‘ Sometimes one is brought face to face with facts which can not be buried . |
28 | They 're aligned east to west which suggests they may have been Christian burials . |
29 | They 're aligned east to west which suggests they may have been Christian burials . |
30 | yeah , one will always be there if you 've got , if , if you 've got a job , the other one is very iffy and yet they were lending money to people who right , right , rightly in their minds have , and as Maggie T said oh yes go on , go , yeah , independence and all that , erm they were going out , never having done it before , no tradition in , in maybe in their family of doing it before , got this goal this sort of Disney World ideal you know erm , sort of make believe world who are we gon na be and we 're gon na be dreaming the dream , the dream |