Example sentences of "be [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My hon. Friend has been to see me about this matter with a group of colleagues . |
| 2 | The best thing for this chap would be to caution him for this offence . |
| 3 | She wanted to watch him and then say something to find out how hard it would be to retrieve him from such self-preservation . |
| 4 | A common answer would be to fit it into some form of the practical syllogism : |
| 5 | The last thing in the world she had thought of becoming was a parson 's wife , and if she were to consider it for any length of time she would refuse through lack of courage . |
| 6 | What is , to my mind , incredible , is that he could ever have supposed that the money was being either paid by the plaintiffs or received by the defendants with the intention or on the footing that the defendants were to keep it in any event . |
| 7 | Once you have been through the various categories listed above and picked out all the names to be included next step is to arrange them in some sort of order . |
| 8 | Her response to ‘ free ’ time is to fill it with more housework , and her housework ideals shape the way she brings up her children ( the insistence on not letting a messy three year old feed herself , for example ) . |
| 9 | Their names were Donald , Ian and Hugo , and they told us that they were extremely grateful for all the food but that the last thing they wanted was to put us in any danger : they begged us not to come again because there would almost certainly be someone in the village who would denounce us to the Germans or the Fascists . |
| 10 | The intention was to reduce it to that rate which would constrain aggregate demand to grow at a rate which could be met by increases in real output . |
| 11 | By Spain , Jackie was beginning to feel the first twinges of the ulcer which was to hamper him for some time and keep him out of racing properly — and out of Belgium altogether — until July . |
| 12 | Once she had managed to enter that cupboard successfully without any fear or panic , she was to telephone me for another appointment . |