Example sentences of "[pers pn] is [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He asked me if I would be kind enough to remind all parents that his is returning to the Skarloey Railway at the end of October . |
| 2 | ‘ So obviously this guest cottage of yours is going to be just perfect . ’ |
| 3 | Or between wife and husband , we tend to think only of transfer from husbands to wife , but er we do meet quite er a w er ladies who 've got quite high earnings and they themselves are paying forty percent in which case they should make sure that any investment income of theirs is transferred to the husband , so as to get the , to either use up allowances that are not being used at all because of absence of the income , or to benefit from these different rates of tax . |
| 4 | She is expecting to be met by a local member of Committee staff and so is not surprised when a young Thai dressed formally in dark trousers and white short-sleeved shirt and carrying a dark peaked cap comes up to her and says , ‘ Excuse me , you are waiting for some-one ? ’ |
| 5 | as if she were putting the same reel of film back in the projector , she ran through the whole scene once again : she is speaking to the visitor , Paul is watching them with astonishment , and the guest is saying : ‘ In your next life , do you want to stay together or never meet again ? ’ |
| 6 | When she first begins to talk , she uses two different types of speech : egocentric speech , a kind of monologue , when she chatters on without bothering to know whom she is speaking to or even whether they are listening ; and socialized speech , a sign of growing maturity and decentring , when she tries to carry on a conversation , reacting to what the other person says . |
| 7 | According to this account , the learning process is determined by the innate structure of the learner operating upon the specific organisation of whichever human language he or she is exposed to . |
| 8 | Donna Anna , daughter of the murdered Commendatore , lacks any sense of humour : she is aiming to be a heroine of high drama ; while Donna Elvira , one of Giovanni 's cast-offs , is a genuinely tragic figure : mocked by all and in danger of losing her reason , she remains touchingly faithful to the lover who has abandoned her . |
| 9 | She is referring to something else , she told herself , I have been dreaming and have not followed the conversation . |
| 10 | The ‘ rights ’ she is referring to are , she would suggest , rights to ‘ innocence ’ , and the ‘ security ’ of moral certainty . |
| 11 | Again , the suggestion has been made that in cases where a woman 's SB is withdrawn because she is found/thought to be cohabiting , a ‘ tiding over ’ allowance should be made to ease the adjustment . |
| 12 | But ‘ at some point in the future ’ , she wants to become again what she is trained to be — a general paediatrician , work that would inevitably involve dealing with child abuse . |
| 13 | Bunny loves cooking ( she is trained to cordon bleu standard ) and after a lifetime 's experience of entertaining , cooking for her guests presents no problem . |
| 14 | The crying sessions faded away and the basically happy and positive person she is began to be evident . |
| 15 | Interaction between judges is probably more significant in the United States with the stable membership on the Supreme Court , but even in Britain the phenomenon of ‘ opinion deference ’ , whereby one or more judges defers to the opinion of another because he or she is acknowledged to be an expert or to have seniority , is not unknown . |
| 16 | But now she is wanting to be home . |
| 17 | If she is to go to the Superfinal in Cardiff in May as leading qualifier , she must at least return home with gold and silver from the 50 and 100m freestyle this weekend . |
| 18 | Now that she can see again she is proving to be a handful of trouble . ’ |
| 19 | So , when to her great surprise she is asked to the Spring Ball , by one of the most desirable men in this school , she feels that this is just to be another of the many jokes played on Carrie . |
| 20 | Either she is relegated to the status of mere spokesperson , transmitter of the divine logos of Apollo : |
| 21 | She 'd hate to be thought of as a seer , but maybe she is destined to be a figure like Morrissey or Ian Curtis , someone whose vision of adolescence comes to represent all our experience . |
| 22 | The ‘ dark'-moon state may often be recognized when you are in conversation with a woman , by a lack of signalled response even though she is listening to you . |
| 23 | She is determined to be a good mother to me as well as Papa 's wife . |
| 24 | Glennis 's voice falters , but she is determined to be positive . |
| 25 | 27 where she is referred to as as Mary ) to develop her own peculiar brand of pidgin Italian , of which she is very proud . |
| 26 | So indeed should the woman for she is to submit to her husband as she would to the Lord himself . |
| 27 | devastated ; truly , she is lost to me now . |
| 28 | She is engaged to be married in July . |
| 29 | ‘ Little has been heard of her since Dead Rat , but she is believed to be in the South-Western United States . |
| 30 | A doctor was called and the following day she was taken to Broadgreen , where she is believed to be having treatment for exhaustion . |