Example sentences of "[be] [to-vb] she [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , it was real , it was happening : sitting with her back straight and her head up in the carriage on the way back , she thought how proud her father would have been to see her at the centre of all this pomp and splendour , and found herself mentally comparing his craggy looks and red beard with Joãs clean-shaven face and small , manicured hands . |
| 2 | Boz is the only one she 'd tell such a thing to , but she 's already told me Boz has n't been to see her since the attack . ’ |
| 3 | His original plan had been to sell her at the Sonepur Mela in Bihar , the world 's largest animal fair and their final destination . |
| 4 | After Titania 's quatrains — the most artificial verse-form in drama , presupposing as it does that the speaker has four lines already prepared , with rhymes , confident of not being interrupted — Bottom 's prose truly belongs to the world of unromantic everyday appetites : Bottom may have been ‘ translated ’ in shape , but nothing can elevate him to verse and romance — apart , ironically enough , from his role as Pyramus , out of whose Pistol-like doggerel he is ever ready to step in order to explain the play : ‘ She is to enter now , and I am to spy her through the wall . |
| 5 | ‘ The best chance would have been to grab her on the way in , ’ the man said . |
| 6 | His partner had suddenly remembered her brothers were to meet her at the door and take her home ( an old trick , this ) . |
| 7 | And luck , a commodity the spirited teenager had never been short of , played a crucial part in the events that were to set her on the path to millions . |
| 8 | Presumably he believed that though his wife might join in a little family intrigue against him , she would not want to carry her opposition to the point of war — particularly if that were to involve her in an alliance with her ex-husband . |
| 9 | " All I want is to see her in a place where she 'll be cared for . |
| 10 | The only way Masefield can make this credible is to present her as a kind of child-bride , a happy innocent ; necessary as this may be to both the theme and the plot of the book , it does not allow her to develop beyond the limits of a type-character . |
| 11 | My sister 's job was to meet her at the bus stop with the wheel basket so she did n't have to carry it up the road . |
| 12 | She had stayed at Thomas a while and now this officer was to put her on a stage for home . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | If he was to save her from a lifetime 's retreat from life and love he had to move her along the right road as quickly as he dared and as quickly as she would let him . |
| 15 | The only way he knew to heal the pain of his humiliation was to punish her for the crime of leaving him . |
| 16 | ( c ) When she raised the question of blood transfusions the only response was to lull her into a sense of false security , both the staff nurse , in her express words , and Dr. F. in his demeanour and the obstetrics staff nurse explicitly , all sought to indicate that it did not much matter since there appeared to them to be no prospect of a blood transfusion becoming necessary . |
| 17 | She also reveals how the actor who tried to make the world a better place was to rescue her from the brink again . |