Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , Father , he asked — the lord sheriff asked — that I should beg you to have Brother Cadfael informed also , and when the morning comes , if you permit , I am to lead him to the place , to meet the sheriff there . |
| 2 | ‘ I am to take you to the count . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I have to pay 80p for one piece of Vallis , Cabomba etc at any of the fish centres in this part of the world and £1.50 each if I was to buy them in the little pots . |
| 5 | Gaitskell became excited at the prospect and instructed me with great firmness that as soon as I had received the ‘ discovered ’ documents I was to show them to no one but to come straight to him , so that he should be the first person to know who the culprit was or what information was available that would lead to the culprit 's identity . |
| 6 | ‘ Then how do you know you are to give it to the Sheikh Osman ? ’ |
| 7 | " You are to take me to the King , " he said . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Right you 're to match it with a bear . |
| 10 | If you were to compare it with a really accurate map there would be very little in common but the map achieves its aim successfully through massive simplification and artificial emphasis of the important features , in this case the stations and interchanges . |
| 11 | If you were to touch him with a pin — and he 's a boy or a girl by now — he 'd move away , he feels pain . |
| 12 | You were to kill him in the alleyway and capture the Time Sprout . |
| 13 | To understand this point you should imagine ( or even actually perform ) your pronunciation of a sentence in a number of different ways : for example , if the sentence was ‘ I want to buy a new car ’ and you were to say it in the following ways : ‘ pleading ’ , ‘ angry ’ , ‘ sad ’ , ‘ happy ’ , ‘ proud ’ , it is certain that at least some of your performances will be different from some others , but it is also certain that the technique for analysing and transcribing intonation introduced earlier in the course will be found inadequate to represent the different things you do . |
| 14 | It is easy to have an opinion about a moral issue like capital punishment , but if you were to discuss it in an essay you would usually have to give your reasons . |
| 15 | My guess would be that if you were to place it over the letter and shuffle it about a bit , some sort of pattern might well emerge . |
| 16 | And it would be nice if you were to provide her with a little brother or sister . ’ |
| 17 | Another method of learning to hover with the model facing you is to place it on the ground in this attitude and learn to fly again from scratch . |
| 18 | She was to collect it from the church house in the morning . ’ |
| 19 | She was to keep it for the next three and a half years . |
| 20 | Sometimes we are to treat it as a drawing of a box , sometimes as one of wire frames . |
| 21 | If we were to put you on a slimming diet providing you with 1,500 calories a day , you would be 500 calories short of your requirement and these would have to be taken from your body fat . |
| 22 | I 'd be looking for sixty five for ours , if we were to put it on the market , I mean we 're not |
| 23 | We were to meet him at the airport , and when we were making all the arrangements with him on the phone , he said , ‘ Are you sure you 'll be able to recognize me ? ’ |
| 24 | I believe that we would get on better with our men ; we would have less friction and less legislation if we were to meet them round the table and discuss mutual affairs with them in a suitable manner . |
| 25 | The point that I want to reiterate here , before extending this concept of structure theoretically , is that in the drama process the surface meaning of the event , the meaning which in fact would play a large part if we were to tell it as a story — ‘ And the townsfolk listened to the Government representative and they had to come to a decision ’ — may not provide the required game structure . |
| 26 | If they were to report it to the company the whole crew could lose their jobs . ’ |
| 27 | His claim that ‘ if they were to put me into a barrel , I would shout glory out through the bunghole ! ’ was not a facetious pose , but the normal expression of an irrepressibly good-humoured Christian . |
| 28 | Romans 8:29 tells us that God 's goal in our relationship with him is to conform us to the image of his Son . |
| 29 | If he were to read it with a less selective eye , he would benefit considerably . |
| 30 | It 's to remove you from the source of this , and that is the school you 're working in . |