Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [pron] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I 've accepted it as fate that people are building me up to knock me down . |
| 2 | Even in its innocent context near the start of Volume One , when the hobbits are using it only to help themselves along , it has an odd ring . |
| 3 | You are to instruct them not to respond to Moslem provocation . |
| 4 | Radio assault : A team from South Cleveland Hospital Radio are gearing themselves up to tackle a tough army assault course . |
| 5 | Many , many of our students are coming back from teaching practice reporting that teachers are urging them not to enter the profession ’ . |
| 6 | Remember , you 're building yourself up to peak performance on the day of the exam . |
| 7 | But you 're teaching them how to evade questions when the TV reporter needs an answer . |
| 8 | But are you living are you living , are you okay so you 've got nothing to live for erm and you 're finding something else to live for , is that revolution really , do you want the |
| 9 | If you , if you 're telling him not to look at it , they say look the other way it 's nothing to do with you . |
| 10 | ‘ You 're telling me not to interfere , are n't you ? ’ |
| 11 | A Rover spokesman said , ’ It is the German manufacturers which are forcing everyone else to follow suit just as the Germans forced catalytic convertors on the market as the answer to emission problems when most other manufacturers were developing lean burn engine technology to achieve the same result more effectively . ’ |
| 12 | Marc had already admitted he had been leading her on to see what she would do . |
| 13 | If you introduce the pupil to this strategy , you are teaching him how to learn . |
| 14 | Two old Rolling Thunderites are getting it together to house mini ramps of varying sizes inside a place off Old Street . |
| 15 | But I am forbidding you ever to attend another of those meetings . |
| 16 | But I am teaching them how to programme the video properly , Mr Lang . |
| 17 | Doctors have today been examining him again to try to assess whether there 's been any damage to his sight . |
| 18 | ‘ All it means is you ca n't sort yourself out and you are asking somebody else to do it for you . ’ |
| 19 | There are still major tailbacks there , though , and the police are asking you still to avoid it . |
| 20 | That is why I am asking you now to become a Friend of Save the Children . |
| 21 | I 'm instructing you how to respond to me . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm warning you not to fall into his trap . |
| 23 | Maybe that was why this picture just would n't work : she was expected to produce a suitable work in return for the fellowship that was supposed to be paying her just to paint . |
| 24 | They seemed to be teaching him how to do things he did n't want to do more than anything else . |
| 25 | ‘ Miss Lodsworth 'll be teaching him how to untie clove hitches . ’ |
| 26 | I hardly think the aim can be to lure us somewhere to murder us . ’ |
| 27 | and I had Mike ironing them while I was putting 'em up , I said right stand here and watch me hang this curtain , so I 'm showing him how to iron it , so while I 'm upstairs putting 'em up he 's ironing |
| 28 | I do n't know what the parents of some of my students are going to think when I 'm showing them how to do G C S E maths on the computer instead of the rather . |
| 29 | This month , I 'm showing you how to create quite small patios , though not necessarily for small gardens . |
| 30 | ‘ That 's the worst part of it — now he 'll be showing us how to take corner kicks and how to score goals ! ’ |