Example sentences of "[be] [to-vb] me [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After confirming that I was n't taking any medication , she gave me two small white pills with a glass of water and sat me down , explaining that my Mother had been seriously burned and the pills were to help me with the shock when I saw her . |
| 2 | His claim that ‘ if they were to put me into a barrel , I would shout glory out through the bunghole ! ’ was not a facetious pose , but the normal expression of an irrepressibly good-humoured Christian . |
| 3 | " You are to take me to the King , " he said . |
| 4 | The Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education is to advise me on the implications of the report for primary initial teacher training in future . |
| 5 | The government 's obvious intention was to identify me as the main source of all the criticism and speculation running counter to the official line on Flight 103 and then to destroy me . |
| 6 | As chance would have it we were going camping with another family whose father was to accompany me for a day 's climbing on Pillar . |
| 7 | Whenever my mother and I had visited her from Štanjel , the first thing Aunt Ema always did was to call me into the larder , which was dark and cool , and give me a large spoonful of the most delicious cream from which she used to make butter , saying in the Mavhinje dialect : ‘ Take this , beautiful , because I know that you do n't like cream in your coffee . ’ |
| 8 | There were lots of young people working there whose main ambition was to get me into a good home . |
| 9 | Later we were to have several talks , but when I first arrived sick and ill and my GP went through the diagnosis , his greatest concern was to get me into the hands of a good specialist which he did with the utmost speed . |
| 10 | On the one hand what the gay movement had done was to involve me in a very intense one-to-one relationship , a couple relationship , and at the same time the ideology that the movement was instilling in me was away from the idea of couple relationships and away from the idea that sex should be conventionally tied to relationships or a single relationship . |