Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [pron] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it 's all so ironic — if my little tinkering with her inhaler had n't led to her death nobody would have known that Doreen guessed — that I 'd been helping myself to the firm 's cash now and then — only piffling amounts over the years I 'd been with them , a few thousand here and there , just enough for some designer clothes and jewellery . |
| 2 | Not for them the hollow reply , ‘ What meeting ? ’ when a call is made to check that they are bringing something to the pot luck supper at school that very evening . |
| 3 | However , at this moment I am addressing myself to the question of motive . |
| 4 | Property speculators in particular are addressing themselves to the question of what is to be done with the vast stretches of land once occupied by watch towers , border guards , dogs and rabbits . |
| 5 | They 're keeping me to the contract … wanting their pound o ’ flesh . |
| 6 | You 're pushing me to the limit , ’ she whispered , cringing into the brocade settle and holding her drink in front of her defensively . |
| 7 | In the ground attack side we 're comparing it to the jaguar that it 'll replace , the harrier G R seven and also the tornado G R four and then in the multi-role arena for air defence , air superiority and attack we 're comparing our aircraft against the French Raphall the American F eighteen E which is the the future variant of the F eighteen , the F fifteen E , the multi-role but primarily air to surface machine and also the F sixteen C. Those are the ones we 're currently looking at . |
| 8 | She 'd been wearing it to the office that morning and put on an overall for the art class in the afternoon . |
| 9 | Said Professor Hoskins of the University of Reading : " We know that human activities are doing something to the system but computer models are too crude at present to predict what will happen . " |
| 10 | However , an increasing number of countries are committing themselves to the goal of immunising 80% of their children by 1990 under the World Health Organization 's Extended Programme on Immunisation ( EPI ) . |
| 11 | Washington seems content to let the United Nations disband the Contras , but Mr Pickering and other US officials have been linking it to the disbanding of the FMLN , without explicitly making it a condition for Washington 's cooperation . |
| 12 | It would be nice to imagine the reader , having ingested the reader , having ingested the above , musing , ‘ Oh , I never thought of that ’ — which is , after all , the response elicited by all cultural commentators — but I have no illusions that I 'm teaching anything to the individual or individuals responsible for the original design . |
| 13 | ‘ No , I 'm taking her to the doctor 's . ’ |
| 14 | I 'm taking you to the bank , ’ he muttered in her ear , his voice reverberating through her body . |
| 15 | ‘ Six months ago , we never thought she would ever achieve her ambition but , fingers crossed , I 'll soon be taking her to the school gates and she can sit in class with the other youngsters , just like she always wanted . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I am taking you to the dressing-room where the ladies are gathered , they would be your best customers , I do n't doubt . ’ |
| 17 | I am taking you to the house of Robert Asshe , in Holborn . |
| 18 | Those educationalists who deny children these opportunities are confining them to the ghetto , to a restricted discourse which will close to them access not only to the professions but also to leadership in national politics . |
| 19 | She was aware of nothing else but his compelling , mesmeric eyes , which were rooting her to the spot , setting a torch to her , the shooting flames searing her insides . |
| 20 | Maggie was taking a plane to London that night and Sheila and Mona were driving her to the airport . |
| 21 | But he might not always meet her calling or her waiting , for men , too , were bidding him to the sound of axe and plough and sword . ’ |
| 22 | We were escorting him to the door when there was a loud explosion at the side of the house . |
| 23 | Although people generally consider me to be a very tolerant person , my moody male boss at work is driving me to the end of my tether . |
| 24 | My mate who is driving me to the match tomorrow says he wants to go straight to the ground so I wo n't be able to get to the Adelphi . |
| 25 | Something is pushing them to the side of their own lives . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Lieutenant Lapointe is escorting me to the opera on Wednesday , ’ she announced defiantly . |
| 27 | He 's reporting you to the Chief Constable . ’ |
| 28 | The problem is getting it to the surface , and in rural areas the best way is by handpump . |
| 29 | Locke 's philosophy about property accepted the settlers ' point of view : in his theory it is the man on the spot who is doing something to the land ( though mainly by directing the labour of the people he has brought over at his own expense ) who is justly entitled to ownership . |
| 30 | But in the second the word ‘ ride ’ suggests that the man is doing something to the horse . |