Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even in places I been to hundreds of times . |
| 2 | It would have served as a substitute-gratification for their own sadism ( i.e. , ‘ I can not retaliate against my father , but I can against my younger brother ’ ) ; but also as a defence on the part of the ego ( i.e. , ‘ I am spared the anxiety of being made the object of an attack if I can instead become the attacker ’ ) ; finally , it would also have contributed a first , rudimentary focus for the superego ( i.e. , ‘ My father is not now the attacker — I am — hence I am to that extent my father ! ’ ) . |
| 3 | Not all the congratulatory letters were complimentary , but I 'm just as grateful to those who took me to task or argued with me or lectured me as I am to those who gave me a kind pat . |
| 4 | Unused as I am to public scribbling , and tardy to boot ( I 've just read your December/January issue ) , I felt I had to thank you for saving me time and trouble ( not to mention hard-won shekels ) , in a search for something which obviously does not exist . |
| 5 | The reception , a buffet , so glad you could come , yes did n't she , yes I am , O ha ha Uncle Tom 's sozzled ha ha good old Uncle Tom , accustomed as I am to public speaking , a glass of champagne cider each , I give you the Bride 's parents I My own parents looking a bit sick of all the tipsy Irish . |
| 6 | Looking at her he thought , ‘ Do I realize how important I am to this woman ? |
| 7 | ‘ I am to some extent on home ground there , ’ she said , reluctantly and not looking at him . |
| 8 | No it 's to much of a , I hate saying I 'll go out at eight o'clock and tell him to be home and at quarter too eight he has n't come and oh , I 'm to tired really , but , so I 've always played it that I will help when I when I can , but uhum , I do n't go on the committee , cos then your stuck , you 've got to go . |
| 9 | ‘ Any notion whom I 'm to special ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ But whenever I see that PG tea advert on TV I think how close I was to real trouble ! ’ |
| 11 | In other words , I was to some extent leading the British public astray . |
| 12 | Eric , who was going through a religious phase at the time which I suppose I was to some extent copying , thought this was a terrible thing to say ; God was n't like that . |
| 13 | Had she been to these places with Chris ? |
| 14 | ‘ Have you been to eleven Creffield Road ? ’ he asked smugly . |
| 15 | What , seen , what have you been to that Liberti is it Liberties by the town church ? |
| 16 | Have you been to that Nettos ? |
| 17 | Have you been to that Nettos then ? |
| 18 | Have you been to that place , Holiday Inn ? |
| 19 | Have you been to that fifty one |
| 20 | Have you been to that part there ? |
| 21 | Although Frank has been a director of Pearson since nineteen eighty six and those of you been to this meeting in the last few years will have seen him before I 'd like to introduce , ah , Frank to you in his new capacity Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer at Pearson . |
| 22 | Have you been to any castles ? |
| 23 | The present crop of portrait painters is uninspiring : ‘ Have you been to any degree shows ? |
| 24 | Did yo , have you been to any more since |
| 25 | ‘ That 's because gravity gets stronger the closer you are to that central point . |
| 26 | This contact may be by post , by telephone or by personal meetings ; the choice will depend very much on how important you are to a magazine and the magazine to you and thus how often you are likely to be working with this particular publication , how physically near you are to each other and indeed how well you get on at a social level . |
| 27 | You know and immediately can you see , you 've asked him all these questions you can see what a pain in the neck you are to all the people you 've asked these questions of . |
| 28 | You are to some extent unhappy about your body and your health and you want to improve . |
| 29 | Carlotta de Leyva belongs to one of the liberal families opposed to the dictator Lopez and as the betrothed of the leader of that opposition , Don Manuel of Encinitas , she is to some extent a figurehead , a political symbol : moreover , to the youth of eighteen , Highworth Ridden , who is introduced to her soon after his arrival in Santa Barbara , she is an ideal because she is in effect the first woman who has ever touched his love , as someone to be served , not someone to aspire to . |
| 30 | ‘ The plaintiff was en ventre sa mère at the time of her brother 's death , and consequently a person in rerum natura so that both by the rules of the common law and civil law she was to all intents and purposes a child . |