Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am here tonight to congratulate the National Safety Award winning companies — companies who have put the health and safety of their employees at the top of their agenda . ’ |
| 2 | If I am right then to say ‘ The chicken is distressed by its close confinement , is a dual acknowledgement of sympathy at the presence of behavioural prototypes similar to those of distressed people , and a strong veterinary hint of a possible cure ; but no more . |
| 3 | ‘ It means , Sir ‘ I am not away to stay away , I am not away to leave you , I am not away to stay away , I shall always come back to see you . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ It means , Sir ‘ I am not away to stay away , I am not away to leave you , I am not away to stay away , I shall always come back to see you . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ It means , Sir ‘ I am not away to stay away , I am not away to leave you , I am not away to stay away , I shall always come back to see you . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I am not here to lose , ’ he said , never far from the negative response . |
| 7 | And I am not here to lose you readers . ’ |
| 8 | I am not here to defend British Rail 's management decisions — I am usually better at condemning them — but during the passage of the legislation to which my hon. Friend referred earlier , British Rail stated that it had picked the least safe of the 100 crossings to which I have referred . |
| 9 | ‘ I am not here to become involved in a controversy , ’ he said . |
| 10 | I am not here to discuss that now , but I mean it 's just to make sure that you know that things are n't planned for five years or ten years , but possibly for a lot longer than that . |
| 11 | ‘ I am not here to make myself known to the police . |
| 12 | This is not because it is so special or secret that I do not want to divulge it — indeed the patient will remember it quite well for himself — but because I do not want him to listen to that tape at some future date and begin to regress himself when I am not there to take charge of the situation . |
| 13 | It tears my heart out whenever I hear of a mining tragedy and because I am not there to help or even to sympathise , something inside me feels the need to shout to all people , southerners especially who have never had fathers , husbands , sons to worry about when each day they are swallowed into the apron of the earth . |
| 14 | Tension can be created either by the sponsor 's subtle , superior position of detachment : ‘ I am only here to describe the problems ; you are the ones who will have to face them ’ , or , quite differently , a hint of ‘ I know more than I am going to tell ’ , or its cruder version : ‘ I am doing a good salesman 's job and you are going to fall for it ’ . |
| 15 | And the reason is that , as well as coming to have my offer for your house refused , yet again , ’ he said pithily , ‘ I 'm also here to invite you and Thomas to lunch on the quay in Portimão . ’ |
| 16 | I 'm just here to help find them . ’ |
| 17 | I 'm just there to see , well , that it does n't build up into anything major . ’ |
| 18 | I ca n't resist the temptation while I 'm here just to tell you one or two things about the accounting application . |
| 19 | I 'm here purely to find out , you want to buy this council house and and and I 'm here purely to find out your circumstances and and what would be the best deal for you . |
| 20 | I 'm here purely to find out , you want to buy this council house and and and I 'm here purely to find out your circumstances and and what would be the best deal for you . |
| 21 | I 'm here only to collect my car . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ You 'll have to forgive me , Chief Inspector , I 've got a one-track mind and I 'm here only to locate the man called Colt , the Englishman who murdered an Agency man in Athens . ’ , |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm not here to watch television , ’ the Doctor said . |
| 24 | Well no , that 's alright love , I 'm not here to arrange |
| 25 | I 'm not here to give them anything , I 'm here to tell them exactly what we expect them to do . |
| 26 | And and therefore I 'm not here to sell you this or that . |
| 27 | " Nevertheless , the year is coming rather near , " put in Vera , one of Amyas 's several maiden aunts , " and quite honestly I hope I 'm not here to see it . " |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm not here to take your call . |
| 29 | But I 'm I 'm not here to teach you how to do the pitch . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm not here to fix the city , rather to take the work that has already been done onto the next stage . |