Example sentences of "be [verb] to [pers pn] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems to be established , and rightly so , that the criterion is not geographical — privilege does not attach to letters sent by constituents to a member , even though they are posted to him in the post office in the Lobby of the House of Commons ( Rivlin v Bilainkin [ 1953 ] 1 QB 485 ) . |
| 2 | From his jacket pocket Robert took out a grubby sheet of paper — the translation of the mysterious manuscript that had been given to him in the pub nearly a year ago today . |
| 3 | I began to forget why I 'd been attracted to him in the first place . ’ |
| 4 | The comparison will not show British progress in a very nattering light , for although Traffic in Towns was a hugely influential report in its day , nothing of significance has been added to it in the UK in a quarter of a century . |
| 5 | When I go past , I wonder what has been happening to her in the intervening years , and that 's very odd . ’ |
| 6 | He remained silent , watching her , and her embarrassment grew until in the end she set her glass down with a bang and in desperation said , ‘ So are you going to tell me what 's been happening to you in the last five years ? ’ |
| 7 | She wrote : ’ I am writing to you in the hope that you can help me with the injustice which has occurred . |
| 8 | We 're particularly proud of him in South Cambridgeshire , as we 're also proud that so many of our environmental health officers like Alan Hobson do sterling work for us , and we are looking to them in the in the future with this semi-autonomy that they 've been given to really take on board the opportunities which have been given to them under the 1990 Act to really go to town on environmental health . |
| 9 | DB2 is a relational DBMS , that is data structures are presented to it in the form of tables ; IMS views the data structures in terms of hierarchies ; and IDMS in terms of networks . |
| 10 | Among the cardinals , Hugolinus , one of Innocent 's closest confidants and later Pope Gregory IX , is now generally agreed to have been related to him in the third degree . |
| 11 | You do it all the time , they 're conditioned to it in the end . |
| 12 | On the premise that ‘ too many cooks spoil the broth ’ , he asks us to reiterate that day to day management of the Village is in the hands of the Warden , Mrs. Pat Holmes , and any guidance , questions or advice on such matters should be addressed to her in the first instance . |
| 13 | ‘ We will be listening to him in the wings every night . ’ |
| 14 | Det Sgt Pat Lewis , of the child protection team , confirmed she had been examined by a doctor and added : ‘ We will be speaking to her in the morning . |
| 15 | And because you 'll be reading to me in the next few months when I 'm cooking and doing chores . |
| 16 | We order you to cause the said oaks to be delivered to him in the place which is most suitable for transporting them , and to assist him to find men to cut them down and carry them , at our expense . |
| 17 | Each pair of dovetailing decisions ( each market transaction completed ) constitutes a case in which each party is being offered an opportunity which , to the best of his knowledge , is the best being offered to him in the market . |
| 18 | This was of a different order from my imaginings about the Chinese communists , arch villains whose evil doings were retailed to us in the classroom with the same ferocious didacticism that accompanies the telling of a lurid fairy tale and enhances its horrifying fascination . |
| 19 | Now politics has to be reinvented to make parties and programmes and politicians capable of understanding the message that has been sent to them in the spring of 1992 . |
| 20 | This is so contrary to our general assumptions ( namely that the Holy Spirit , however vaguely we conceive of him , is an internal gift for the faithful , appropriate only to be mentioned in church ) that it is important for us to see the crucial link between the Spirit and mission which is presented to us in the pages of the New Testament . |
| 21 | He is presented to us in the first instance , and decisively , but his failures , his weaknesses , his inadequacies . |
| 22 | All this is a matter of statistics and arid generalities : but what the transformation of these local heaths meant to those who had grown up near them and upon them , what the change meant in detail , is revealed to us in the poetry of John Clare , who was born in 1793 on the edge of the heath country of northern Northamptonshire . |
| 23 | you can do it because as you read through your notes as someone 's talking to you in the lecture you will be saying , Yeah of course of course . |
| 24 | In 1875 a memorial was erected to him in the British Cemetery . |
| 25 | ODDLY enough , although he was for almost 50 years a pillar of the British dance band scene , by his own account Joe Crossman 's only popular acclaim was given to him in the United States for his beautiful alto saxophone solo on Stanley Black 's mid-Forties recording of Django Reinhardt 's ballad ‘ Nuages ’ . |
| 26 | When Stephen returned the following day , the news was broken to him in the stable block by the groom who took his horse . |
| 27 | He accepted it when it was explained to him in the right way . |
| 28 | — He understood very little of what was said to him in the Outpatient Clinic and could not explain it to his wife . |
| 29 | The appeal was made to them in the early 1970s to offer their home to ‘ special needs ’ children and they responded well , Now they are being asked to accept both the challenge of ‘ special needs ’ children and the possibility of continuing contact with members of the original family . |
| 30 | His VC was presented to him in the Western Desert by Montgomery , and he returned to New Zealand in 1943 after active service in Greece , Crete and North Africa . |