Example sentences of "[is] [v-ing] [pers pn] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are under 60 but your husband has reached 65 and is retired , he may be able to claim a dependency addition of £32.55 for you , provided he pays it to you or is maintaining you to an equivalent amount . |
| 2 | This month the family of one of his victims is bringing him to trial . |
| 3 | But there 's something she does know and she 's keepin' it to herself . |
| 4 | Under a previous pact , Unir is porting it to Intel . |
| 5 | To hand them over to the Russians is condemning them to slavery , torture and probably death . |
| 6 | Harold Macmillan 's diary entry describing his meeting at Klagenfurt on 13 May ( only a day after the last group had surrendered ) states that he was informed that " among the surrendered Germans are about 40,000 Cossacks and " White " Russians with their wives and children " , and he notes that " to hand them over to the Russians is condemning them to slavery , torture and probably death . |
| 7 | Our first Diary reported his offer of a £1000 bet on Fallon to win ; without takers and with the benefit of two weeks canvassing he 's upping it to £2000 , at odds of 8–11 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But it is not just this personality clash that is driving Solidarity-as-we-know-it to extinction . |
| 11 | That 's all you 've got recorded on the tape is explaining it to everybody what it bloody is . |
| 12 | And some go on to accuse him of tunnel-vision , saying they doubt whether he ever really wanted a peaceful settlement in the Gulf ; whether he now has a view of what American policy after the war should be ; and whether his single-minded determination to win the war is blinding him to other dangers . |
| 13 | ‘ I think , ’ said Mr Malik , cheerfully , ‘ he is sentencing you to death . ’ |
| 14 | Something is pushing them to the side of their own lives . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Lieutenant Lapointe is escorting me to the opera on Wednesday , ’ she announced defiantly . |
| 16 | He is taking their eyes , if you 'll excuse the pun , off their situation and condition , off their blindness , off their need , off the miracle even , and he 's directing it to themself . |
| 17 | The world 's biggest computer maker still needs this division as a supplier , but was failing to run it profitably ; so it is selling it to its managers and Clayton & Dubilier , leaving them to run it but still with a supply contract to IBM . |
| 18 | The director wants you to do it a certain way , and either you do n't feel that he 's right or you feel that he 's right but he 's forcing you to be a square peg in a round hole . |
| 19 | Police say they do n't yet know when Mr Dobbs body will be released but the Gloucestershire coronor 's expecting him to be returned for an inquest |
| 20 | I erm got , check you 've got two days , you 've got give me the estimate , it 's got to be on because she 's expecting it to be done straight away on the computer and sent . |
| 21 | It now appears that the Government is moving them to only one area , on the Uraricaa River , probably to avoid further confrontation with the courts . |
| 22 | God is n't calling me to be a cook , Your Excellency , he 's calling me to be a contemplative . |
| 23 | ‘ But Daddy is expecting it to be a sort of little God-speed thing . |
| 24 | He 's reporting you to the Chief Constable . ’ |
| 25 | The problem is getting it to the surface , and in rural areas the best way is by handpump . |
| 26 | I believe God is calling me to full-time service . |
| 27 | He has obtained a fighter , Bf 1 10 , and he 's flying it to Britain . |
| 28 | I fear that we can not return to Salzburg very soon and mamma must not wish it , for she knows how much good it is doing me to be able to breathe freely . |
| 29 | Sixty-seven of them and you get sick at the sixty-eighth ’ , it is as if he is saying it to us over his shoulder as he bends down to examine another body . |
| 30 | I know it ai n't polite to stare , but she 's doing it to me , and to tell the truth I 'm so tired I ca n't move . |