Example sentences of "be [adv] [adv] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it 's foolish of him to have it when we 're all about to go into production and we 're so tired . ’ |
| 2 | She sits there she goes and she stops and you 're just about to go to sleep and she goes so loud ! |
| 3 | Ruth Grigg of the Family Planning Association , said : ‘ The temptation for women who have their Pills changed will be just not to bother with contraception at all or to use something that 's less effective . ’ |
| 4 | I 'm just about to go to bed and I thought I 'd ring and see how things are with you . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm sure I 'm there just to concentrate on coaching and I 'm sure that 's the first thing I need to look at ’ , Jenkins also said . |
| 6 | The food 's quality is not improved by the fact that the watch is rarely there to eat on time . |
| 7 | He defended the Masai 's right not to go to school , and opposed their forcible recruitment into the King 's African Rifles during the First World War . |
| 8 | However you do the sums , the levy is clearly there to pay for history ; the Select Committee said it is ‘ indefensible that so much of the burden of discharging the pre-April 1990 liabilities should be placed on electricity consumers within one eight-year period ’ . |
| 9 | In the drawings the lamb appears to have bound feet , and the purport of the piece is surely more to do with sacrifice than deliverance . |
| 10 | That is quite simply to reduce by say 25 per cent the amount of time the eager opera audience wishes to spend listening to famous old works about famous old people and places , and instead increase the amount of time it wishes to spend listening to new works about ordinary people now . |
| 11 | And after all Elizabeth had done for her , heaven only knew it was little enough to ask in return . |
| 12 | So when , late that night as I was just about to go to bed , I heard a discreet knock at the door , I was not amazed to find a waiter in a claw-hammer coat pulling a heavily laden food trolley into my room . |
| 13 | The Prince Charles was just about to anchor in Tongue Bay , midway along the northern coast of Scotland , on 25 March 1746 when the 24-gun Sheerness , which far outclassed her , appeared and opened fire . |
| 14 | Framed by a swimming pool and women with pointed breasts , Elvis sneered lustily and was clearly about to burst into song . |
| 15 | As he had lived alone before his stroke , he had to hire 24-hour nursing help , and a nurse accompanied him whenever he went out , which was initially only to attend for rehabilitation care . |