Example sentences of "[be] [to-vb] [pron] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they met , Burn said that Donaldson had been to see him in the interim . |
| 2 | It would seem to me that if you 've got to prove a case that there that it is the place of last resort , and that place of last resort has got to be at least five thousand dwellings , you are in a place where there is absolute massive growth of demand , and improbably no one has been able to meet a five year supply of housing land , if you are to meet it in the term , if y if those are the criteria to meeting the terms of th of this sort of plan , and in fact what I would submit is that a new settlement solution is very much a part and parcel of a long term solution , and that 's where essentially the County strategy is quite right in proposing a new settlement in the context of the greenbelt , because also greenbelt is a long term solution . |
| 3 | How bitter must he be to find himself in the position in which he was now ? |
| 4 | Yes , I mean you could put it in the minutes , but also it would be quick at the next meeting of this sub-committee is after the election , it 'll be some time in June , so a quick way of dealing with it would be to put it in the bulletin , yes , but also , but I 'll put it in the minutes , as well . |
| 5 | He pulled Carla into his arms and closed his eyes , feeling a vast , directionless violence , as if his task were to kill everyone in the world and the problem was how to start . |
| 6 | You were to kill him in the alleyway and capture the Time Sprout . |
| 7 | Then , scientists were to puncture them in the leg with a large hypodermic to extract a sample of muscle tissue . |
| 8 | So we need to be looking forward , but we ought to be looking short-term , so the best way to look at objectives , is to look it in the short-term , which is in fact , year one if you like , medium term , years two and three , and long-term , years four and five . |
| 9 | Its aim is to do something in the life of the person who reads it , as well as to capture his aesthetic interest and supply him with historical and theological information . |
| 10 | One useful trick is to put yourself in the position of their bank manager and ask what conditions you would impose before lending them any more money . |
| 11 | Cos you know one of the people says that the best place for it is to lob it in the arboretum lake . |
| 12 | It is much easier to advocate such a policy ( i.e. to avoid making hasty decisions ) on the ground than it is to execute it in the air when presented with an unusual emergency . |
| 13 | Fortunately was interested and immediately delved into his record collection and started to play some old rock 'n' roll LP 's to get us in the mood . |
| 14 | To flash a badge was to risk someone in the crowd remembering his face and in the future , on another job , he could fingered as the stoolie he truly was . |
| 15 | And when at last she fell asleep it was to find herself in the château , running endlessly through a labyrinth of rooms , searching for something that was always just beyond her reach . |
| 16 | In his room at the hotel , he would find a gun and it was emphasised that , after the shooting , he was to replace it in the room as arrangements had been made to dispose of it . |
| 17 | The only way to banish the bogeyman was to look him in the eye without flinching . |
| 18 | One of the worst things that could happen to a pupil was to leave something in the dining room by mistake after dinner . |
| 19 | My first thought was to put them in the dustbin . |
| 20 | Tony found that the best thing to do was to put her in the buggy and push her round the town , or take her to the park . |
| 21 | In 1901 he was elected to a fellowship at Caius ; among his colleagues there was ( Sir ) Ronald Fisher [ q.v. ] , who was to succeed him in the chair of genetics . |
| 22 | Behind the scenes , Sir Reginald was negotiating with political leaders about the composition of the Executive Council which was to assist him in the government of the country until elections could be held . |