Example sentences of "[pron] be [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and a cup of coffee and a cigarette , and I always do that but this day I was so tired after the doing the garden , both gardens like and fucking weeding them all and doing everything else and brushing out the back and doing I said to him for fuck 's sake do them dishes for me for a change William would you I said , so I got er got myself in the bath said I 'm away to bingo , so William 's gone out what happened ? eight , I had eight he had one you may get yourself I said ah fuck no wonder I have no fucking luck , so on the settee and said I 'm not going anywhere , I sat for ten minutes then I said ah fuck you why should I sit here so I lifted the car keys and walked out again then , fucking zooming out of and there was John coming up like that |
| 2 | And my my aunt that I my grandmother that I stayed with , their neighbour down the stair was quite indignant and saying , I 'm away to work and she 's getting twelve shillings the same . |
| 3 | I 'm here to second this composite , number sixteen , as regards public ownership of utilities . |
| 4 | Labour 's shadow chancellor John Smith unveils their alternative budget promising everyone earning up to £22,000 a year they would be better Dr Ashok Kumar launched his campaign to retain Langabrugh pledging ‘ I 'm here to Opinion polls show the Tories with a three point Labour say they would scrap the City Technology Colleges if they won power . |
| 5 | As I had n't been invited to that , I had to conclude that I was there to work , wearing my professional hat . |
| 6 | You are here to work , Shelley Cameron , she told herself . |
| 7 | Henry Cobham , Sir Robert Cecil and Sir John Popham , who had ordered the report , further informed the two men " … it seemeth by some purport made unto us , that eight Kibles of God 's gift and Conistone Oares should make a quintall of Copper , and in matter of experiment in the worke , it appeareth that tenn Kibles or more doe but make a quintall of Copper , you are therefore to informe your Selves the best you can how many Kibles of the Oare now gotten at Gods gift , and Coniston will yield a Quintall of Copper , what the particular charges will amount unto , of making the said Quintall . |
| 8 | ‘ If you 're away to glory in some sort of wilderness I suppose I have n't much option — but I must say that this is mighty strange — ’ |
| 9 | You 're here to work , so get moving . |
| 10 | Said fifty when you were upstairs to daddy and she said how old 's your father and I said fifty two |
| 11 | I do n't know if there 's anything on tomorrow Maybe we ought to go this evening if she 's there to work . |
| 12 | She was here to work , to wend her way among the clusters of people gathered around the groaning buffet tables , to smile like a wax mannequin and to stop when requested , to pirouette and offer the same answer to each question about her gown whether it dealt with size , colour , fabric , price or availability . |
| 13 | Leith was about to state , quite forcefully , that she was there to work , not to flirt with every male who chanced his arm , when suddenly she realised that if he knew she had worked for Vasey 's for only a short while then there was a fair chance either someone from Personnel , or Mr Catham , had given him a brief run-down on each employee before he met them . |
| 14 | ‘ I thought the idea was that we 're here to work , not to enjoy ourselves . ’ |
| 15 | You know he used to see to a lot of our meals , and see that we were away to school and such-like . ’ |
| 16 | To read We is constantly to hive to rethink the issue . |
| 17 | Self-contained was the phrase that occurred to him ; everything was there to hand . |
| 18 | actually it 's a bit boring down there now but they , they had to put my , my explanation of the price of petrol er down , there 's nowhere to thing , cos th the last time I was down there I asked for a pint of bitter and this guy bought it me and said and I wanted two pound thirty or something . |
| 19 | There 's more to Easter than eggs and chocolate . |
| 20 | I mean , I 'm not saying I want us to be living at the top of a tower block on some vandalized estate but there 's more to life than this , I know there is . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ But as much as I 'd like to continue playing for the North , I suddenly thought there 's more to life than sitting on the M1 . |
| 22 | ‘ The idea then was to go completely beserk for an hour , but there 's more to life than that . |
| 23 | I 've got my family and there 's more to life than money . ’ |
| 24 | There 's more to life than filthy commerce . ’ |
| 25 | Some of my friends went to the City They 're better paid — but spare your pity ; There 's more to life than pounds and pence — My quality of life 's immense : A cosy office , nearly new , Equipped with latest PS2 . |
| 26 | There 's more to teamwork than playing football . |
| 27 | There 's more to garden colour than flowers alone , says Robert Pearson |
| 28 | However , there is more to marriage than family structure . |
| 29 | The only conceivable answer is that there is more to life than molecules ; that behind the sensory level of experience , we are dealing with a complex and dynamic tapestry of Mind energy . |
| 30 | It takes time for any new middle class to realise that there is more to life than the sudden enjoyment of prosperity . |