Example sentences of "be [pron] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Are we to protect them from the social effects of spreading industry about the countryside ? |
| 2 | And how are we to get him past the gates , with the town in this ferment ? |
| 3 | By the time somebody finds them there 'll be nothing to link us to the killings . ’ |
| 4 | LISTENING TO TONY FOSTER TALK about his territory — General chemicals — you could find yourself wondering how he and old Ludwig Mond would get on , were someone to introduce them across the gap of more than a century . |
| 5 | Erm I mean I 'm concerned again through his eyesight that i were we to put him as the assistant and put him on a machine , that he might just put his hand somewhere and get his hand bloody trapped or whatever with his eyesight . |
| 6 | There 's nothing to link it with the drinks cartons or newspaper publishing . |
| 7 | The assault happened outside a pub , but police say there 's nothing to link it with the incident . |
| 8 | Because there 's nothing to hold it on the plate , you see . ’ |
| 9 | There is nothing to make it in the firm 's best interests actually to follow through with the punishment in the period following a deviation , given the game that then presents itself . |
| 10 | Warbeck 's knowledge of the Yorkist court , which impressed contemporaries , probably came largely from Brampton , although there is nothing to associate him with the conspiracy itself . |
| 11 | In practice , there might be situations of doubt ; a man might claim that there was nothing to alert him to the girl 's age ( e.g. a 15-year-old girl , who looks much older , soliciting in a street with other prostitutes ) . |
| 12 | There was nothing to tie him to the place now . |
| 13 | What he needed was someone to get him by the scruff of the neck , tell him a few home truths and offer emotional stability . |
| 14 | ‘ There was nobody to touch him on the pitch , ’ he said . |