Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [to-vb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The facts before them are to do with people dying and being buried or cremated . |
| 2 | I am staying for a few days at the Dale End Hotel while I explore the district , and I 'd like to know about the Brownies ' Bridge , as I am to do with Brownies . ’ |
| 3 | Tomorrow I am to go to Professor Dachauer at the Academy at 11.00 with Dr Viola . |
| 4 | I should also like to know what I am to say to Oatridge , St. Kentigerns and other people who are involved at a practical level . |
| 5 | I shall need it if I am to race with Mercury here . ’ |
| 6 | Cara queried , but as she quickly caught on , ‘ Oh he 's not coming to England — I 'm to go to Czechoslovakia . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ But the p-powers that be have decided I 'm to go to Jamaica . |
| 8 | ‘ If I 'm to talk to Evelyn Lennox , ’ he said calmly , ‘ I need to brief myself in advance with anything she might throw at me . ’ |
| 9 | Besides , I 'd much prefer more conducive company if I 'm to travel down river . |
| 10 | I 'm to walk along Crane Street from the city end , turn right at the first corner , right again at the first comer and just keep on like that . ’ |
| 11 | Two or three 'phone calls later and it was all arranged — Jane I were to go to Skomer . |
| 12 | If Paul or Erlend or I were to die at Siward 's hand , you would feet as he does . |
| 13 | If I were to write of Milton Friedman : ‘ the absence of self-consciousness and the resulting presence of an egocentrically unified perspective seem to be associated with an inability to shift perspective in concept formation problems ’ , I do not suppose that many psychologists would accept such an application of the language of psychology . |
| 14 | We ourselves were to travel by train . |
| 15 | ‘ I realise that if I was to move to South Africa I would be living a completely different existence . |
| 16 | Judge then my feelings when the first face I was to see at Jo'burg airport was the self-same Second Secretary , delighted that he had again been honoured with an important secret mission . |
| 17 | The plan was that I was to remain in England and organise the Arts Lab with Mary Finnigan and see it did n't fall apart . ’ |
| 18 | Oh they left it that I was to give to Arthur and June . |
| 19 | I was to serve at St Michael 's church , Kemmendine , a suburb of Rangoon , where there was a parish church , a teachers ' training school and a blind school . |
| 20 | We drank tea , and very often I would arrive some five to ten minutes earlier than the appointed time , so the maid would tell me that I was to wait as madame was still resting . |
| 21 | I was glad to accept the honour not so much for myself but for the cutter service as a whole when it was confirmed that I was to attend at Buckingham Palace the following summer . |
| 22 | On that first day I had little thought to spare for Parma itself , but gradually I came to realize how fortunate I was to go to school in a city that was both beautiful and intensely interesting . |
| 23 | They wished to keep themselves secret and therefore I was to go to Mordecai . |
| 24 | ‘ One ca n't give cast-iron guarantees , just as you ca n't give me guarantees about my safety if I was to go to Birmingham , ’ Mr Thomas replied . |
| 25 | Detective-Sergeant Prentice had specifically requested my presence and left instructions that I was to go to Queen 's Road and not Whipps Cross Hospital Mortuary . |
| 26 | There was also the anxiety of discovering where I was to sit in chapel ; then I had to learn the names and whereabouts of the different houses and of the scattered playing fields . |
| 27 | Erm Ian left that with me and I was to speak to Bob before Bob gave it to because it was n't very good . |
| 28 | He was one of many people of mixed race I was to meet in Algeria . |
| 29 | First stop was Stornoway where Ewen Munro , the Manager , was on hand to relieve me of an important part of my luggage , The Crofter of the Year Cup , which I was to present in Stornoway at a Dinner on the Friday once I had returned from my more distant island travels . |
| 30 | As a director of Routledge , he took an interest in what I was writing , and in 1946 he commissioned the first book I was to produce on philosophy , The Approach to Metaphysics . |