Example sentences of "[be] [to-vb] [pron] in the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Towards the end of his playing career when he was with Hibs and contemplating a move to the Orlando Lions , a short lived soccer team in Florida , Rough 's business interests not only brought him appalling bad luck but imposed a series of financial set-backs that were to affect him in the years to come . |
| 2 | Now all they have time to do when they 're working on the site is to put them in the trays and wash them . |
| 3 | One way is to crawl up the staircase of preferment on your belly ; the other way is to kick them in the teeth . |
| 4 | It was her firm belief that the quickest way to achieve mental health was to absorb oneself in the problems of others and , in this particular centre , it seemed to have worked . |
| 5 | The effect of all such variations was to make it in the interests of publishers not to specialize in one type of paper but , as they did increasingly over the post-war decades , to spread their interests across morning , evening and weekly papers — and , in a few cases , Sundays . |