Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] [be] [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I went to change me poll tax and er I says to her , I says , I should be court to Monday oh she says you 've got a fifteen pound court thing , I says aye , she says oh well that 's fifteen pound , I says it 's not cos I 'm not paying it I says I 'm not paying the fifteen pound to the court , I says , I says how come last year I did n't pay right round to February last year I said and yet I , your last payment 's next month , you know , she said oh well they 're stricter this year she says , she , if you 'd pay the half year you 'd of been alright |
| 2 | There is a thin strip of wasteland between the allotments and the depot which could be home to rats . |
| 3 | As a result , administrative arrangements can be countenanced which would be anathema to Hong Kong 's British rulers . |
| 4 | There may be hostility to rivals but there is also the deep sense of solidarity and identity that comes from fierce loyalties to a place or a people . |
| 5 | Before the war grammar schools were distinguished by their academic curriculum , by the existence of sixth forms , from which there could be progress to university , and by the academic qualifications of the teachers ; and so , after 1944 , it was taken for granted that the grammar school ideal must be preserved in its familiar form . |
| 6 | Pask stonewalled , claiming variously that he had no staff to answer questions , that only one boiler-maker in Britain was capable of making unit boilers for large sets , that they would encounter operational difficulties , that there would be economies to replication of smaller sets , that larger sets were more expensive than small ones , and that station layouts would not accommodate them . |
| 7 | Schools could work forwards or backwards in time ( though it is expected that at all times there will be reference to time-lines , and time-charts , and that attention will be given to the question " when did this happen in the past ? " ) . |
| 8 | It is as if they might be responses to requests to " write up " exchanged conversation and counsel — some are lyrics and short prose poems on the nature of contemplative life . |
| 9 | Put the remaining dividers that you have , it should be H to L after that section in front of the expense envelopes . |
| 10 | It might be convention to lunch in the executive suite . |
| 11 | In a few seconds time he might be face to face with the man who had killed Daniel . |
| 12 | So , it could be goodbye to body odour — but only in the right room . |
| 13 | Marilyn Thompson was Charlie 's wife 's best friend ; Charlie was to be Jack 's best man and one day he thought he would be godfather to Jack 's first child . |