Example sentences of "[am/are] [adv] [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I reckon the nuns beat her you are not to go out with boys ! |
| 2 | We 'll need somewhere dry to spend the night if we 're not to go down with pneumonia . |
| 3 | You 're not to come down until baby ! |
| 4 | They 're about to cash in on striker Mark Stein , who 's on his way to Chelsea from Stoke for 1.6 million pounds . |
| 5 | We 're about to run out of time . |
| 6 | They may have to , if the Middle East 's old enemies are ever to move on to phase three and cut a deal . |
| 7 | Watch out , too , for sales staff or reps who encourage you to ‘ buy now ’ , implying that prices are about to go up on April 5 . |
| 8 | Around fifty support troops are about to touch down in Split at the start of a six-month tour of duty in the former Yugoslavia . |
| 9 | The Sudanese Government said yesterday that three towns — including Juba , the biggest in the south — are about to run out of food . |
| 10 | This attitude , you know , boys will be boys and they make a mess and poor Mum has to do all the washing , is really quite , quite misguided because it , it does encourage those assumptions that mothers are there to tidy up after sons , and of course then sons when they grow up and get wives want to replace their mothers . |
| 11 | It 's really quite misguided because it does encourage those assumptions that mothers are there to tidy up after sons and of course then sons when they grow up and get wives want to replace their mothers . |