Example sentences of "be [adv] [v-ing] to their [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 And it can get awkward when people take things too Literally — you say , ‘ Hello , how are you ? ’ and twenty minutes later you 're still listening to their philosophy of life .
2 And erm the youngsters were n't objecting to their music .
3 He is not conforming to their pattern by ‘ miraculous accident ’ .
4 And it was presumably owing to their encouragement that in the 1540s Crecquillon began to compose chansons and Clemens and Gombert increased their production from a trickle to a flood .
5 The Begum family had rung a pizza delivery service three times on Saturday night when it was late delivering to their home in Heelands in Milton Keynes .
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