Example sentences of "[be] [to-vb] [pers pn] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I had been to see him the previous day , and arranged that he come and teach me Dutch . |
| 2 | Her father 's loving- ( or lying- ) competition , designed though it may be to give her the best part of England ( which he is also giving himself , of course , since he intends to live in retirement with her ) , and revealing , in a way , his love for her , is nevertheless so constructed that she would have to compete with hypocrisy in order to win . |
| 3 | ‘ My reward will be to give them the final yellow jersey in Manchester . ’ |
| 4 | I , I would totally support the move that you 're suggesting Mr Chairman , if we are asked to provide another one percent or whatever can be done , erm , I would suggest that the obvious way to get that money would be to offer them the ten thousand that we agreed to spend this morning . |
| 5 | When Edward Thomas entered the History Eighth at St. Paul 's in January 1894 , he was at least seventeen months younger than the seven pupils who had joined the class in the previous July or September and who were to leave it the following June . |
| 6 | We had no way of knowing it , but those messages were to bring us the first concrete news of John for eighteen months . |
| 7 | This is done electronically now , but the principle is , is often the same , and the instinct is to do it the same . |
| 8 | With such ancient remains , the first need is to accord them the same protection as other ancient monuments . |
| 9 | It 's the 10th time the event has been held and the aim is to make it the biggest and best yet ! |
| 10 | The progress of this story was to show me the essential solitariness of other people , people whom I had not thought of as being solitary before . |