Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [prep] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | His statement said : ‘ I am under contract to Newcastle United until the end of this season . |
| 2 | I am in debt to you . ’ |
| 3 | " So how can I be of assistance to you ? " she asked , fixing a professional smile to her face , the same smile she used when dealing with difficult customers or when fixing the amount to paid out in bribes . |
| 4 | ‘ Now , how can I be of help to you ? ’ she said , taking her own seat behind the barrier of the desk . |
| 5 | ‘ In what particular can I be of comfort to Prince Llewelyn ? ’ |
| 6 | I 'm under contract to the agency . |
| 7 | I 'm on contract to them . |
| 8 | I 'm in bondage to him to the tune of three hundred guineas which he 's squeezing me for , crushing me to death like a snake its prey . ’ |
| 9 | I 'm in chains to this place . ’ |
| 10 | but when they were ringing I were on phone to John 's mum because there were someone hanging about house , so I talked to John 's mum for ages on phone and then Debbie rang , did n't she ? |
| 11 | I were on phone to her and Michael took the phone off and he went Shelley , she said what ? |
| 12 | ‘ I thought I was under contract to Paul Lexington Productions . ’ |
| 13 | I told you all I was at liberty to and thought you had accepted it . ’ |
| 14 | But perhaps I was as oblivious at school as I was at home to the sneers or the impatience of others . |
| 15 | I had with the permission of the deputy general secretary leave of conference yesterday I was in London to be told of a further nine hundred redundancies from a company that a short time ago was telling us , and if you look at my report you 'll have to delete the first paragraph where they had secured orders and the security of our members ' employment only to be told yesterday , nine hundred will go . |
| 16 | Perhaps I was in thrall to an illusion , but to me Pottz looked natural , free , and potent . |
| 17 | Remember , you are under contract to Scenario Productions and — ’ |
| 18 | But through his eyes Watson was enabled to describe events of the utmost absurdity in a way that makes you believe , if only while you are in thrall to each book , that they really might have happened . |
| 19 | And probably you 're in hock to the Service 's being friends ( the Service always had banking friends ) for this boatyard , too . |
| 20 | Last night you were in thrall to your emotions . |
| 21 | ‘ She 's in propinquity to other Stealers , ’ muttered Jaq . |
| 22 | Unscrupulous model agencies and sponsors claim she is under contract to them and owes them part of her winnings . |
| 23 | On Wednesdays , as a tribute to Aunt Emily , she was at home to callers , and faithfully , once a week , she went to the Rectory and was a tiger for an hour in the jungle under the nursery table . |
| 24 | Yet when it came to a hulloa and a gallop and a death , she was on terms to the end . |
| 25 | She was in town to film Modesty Blaise for Joseph Losey . |
| 26 | We have not had a great deal of communication from you over the past two years , and it is questionable whether we are of use to you , and you to us . |
| 27 | Psychologically it is costly because we are in bondage to the person we will not forgive . |
| 28 | We are in thrall to the uniquely Western illusion of cheating time by investing the temporal with immortality . |
| 29 | ‘ This road we 're on looks to be the shorter way now . |
| 30 | The details held against books and the people they are on loan to are very detailed . |