Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [vb pp] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Incensed by such treatment , the hare scratched the Moon 's face with his claws and the two of them are disfigured to this day . |
| 2 | It is an important implication of this that they are never a matter of how the things which have them are related to other things . |
| 3 | Some of them are returned to normal prisons before they ever make the intensive group therapy regime . |
| 4 | Bingley possesses an enormous fortune and both of them are committed to each other and love one another very deeply . |
| 5 | And so I am pasted to this leaning morass , observing the simplest of equations . |
| 6 | My own ferreting campaigns begin in October but from that time onward to the end of the game-shooting season I am limited to outside hedgerows and warrens and burrows well away from the standing crops of game cover and the woods . |
| 7 | I start up the hill towards Dýrafjöđ3ur but before I reach the top I am treated to some Icelandic weather . |
| 8 | Time buckles and I am skewered to this one moment . |
| 9 | I am committed to this enterprise : To climb the mountain , to cut down the cedar , and leave behind me an enduring name . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I am committed to these elderly people and I feel they deserve more than this . |
| 11 | Mr Harper said : ‘ I am committed to these elderly people and I feel they deserve more than this . |
| 12 | I 'm determined to this you know . |
| 13 | Right , David , you said you 'd been approached by another insurance company , er , I could obviously say , I recommended Abbey Life , and I 'm tied to that , but I actually joined because I think they 're a particularly good company , in that what , in the use they make of the money that I 'm paying , actually goes , performs very well . |
| 14 | I 'm tied to another organisation for guest speaking anyway , so IMG get nothing of that ’ . |
| 15 | I 'm handcuffed to one of the London burlies now and we both have to eat with one hand . |
| 16 | I 'm used to similar excerpts in The Telegraph and in the local press , but do n't expect them to be so boring . |
| 17 | I 'm used to that . |
| 18 | I 'm used to that . |
| 19 | ‘ Oh — I 'm used to that , I 'm used to being criticized , despised . |
| 20 | I 'm used to all that by now . |
| 21 | I 'm used to hard work , ’ Tess insisted . |
| 22 | ‘ But I 'm used to three big meals a day . |
| 23 | But I 'm reduced to verbal inanities , he thought . |
| 24 | eh he says , then I were transferred to another one , then from another one , to another one . |
| 25 | I was led into all these commitments in a very friendly and deferential spirit , and in a similar spirit of friendship and hospitality I was invited to numerous social engagements , from impressive lunch in honour of the Minister of Education to an invitation to a private home in Jaipur , where my kind host and hostess had gone to the trouble of preparing sandwiches , cake , chips ( without the fish ) and pudding , in case I should not like the Indian dishes served for the other guests ! |
| 26 | I was able to recall perfectly quite long sequences of words even when I was exposed to each for little more than twenty milliseconds . |
| 27 | I was sentenced to two years in prison . |
| 28 | No excitement in my life has ever quite equalled the tense fifteen minutes during which I was connected to that fish . |
| 29 | This topic remained part of my responsibilities until the middle of 1990 when I was moved to one of the RAF information technology strategy studies . |
| 30 | The worst thing that happened to me was that I was moved to another hut on the Waaf site and found myself amongst a very superior set of girls who worked in Radar . |