Example sentences of "[am/are] [verb] [pron] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er er simply er that the various upper case items which are listed one to twelve , are backed up in lower case script . |
| 2 | ‘ I am devoting myself to this mystery because i want to be a man . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I am opening myself to new possibilities . ’ |
| 4 | So they can enter the secondary schools and they 're selling it to these young kids that just do n't know any better . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm not doing anything to you , ’ he breathed into her ear , ‘ we 're doing it to each other . ’ |
| 6 | Then a nurse and officer came and said , ‘ Come along , dear , we 're taking you to another wing . ’ |
| 7 | They 're changing it to more exams I mean , it changes to G C S E in the first place to get rid of having |
| 8 | It seems to me two of the elements are lend themselves to some sort of arithmetical assessment an and the County 's gone through at . |
| 9 | By the first year of secondary school , most Caribbean children in areas of reasonably high Caribbean settlement are speaking it to some extent at least . |
| 10 | Those with extra cash are treating themselves to costly colognes and aftershaves . |
| 11 | Girls can be encouraged to take modules in technology without feeling they are committing themselves to two years ' or more work ; low achieving pupils can take a range of modules without suffering the indignity of following a programme that marks them out as ‘ different ’ . |
| 12 | With some modification , this view , expressed in African Political Systems , is generally accepted , Recent research would broaden even further the category and also include systems where descent groups are linked one to another by marriage , rather than by believed common descent . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , not only are legal firms unable to maximise the amount of extra business they can sell through cross-fertilisation of other specialised services , they are losing it to other providers of information and advice . |
| 14 | Come on , I 'm taking you to that little café down the road — what 's it called now ? ’ |
| 15 | Ring Jones and tell him I 'm taking you to this dinner . ’ |
| 16 | I 'm sorry I 'm putting you to all this trouble . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ If you are comparing it to modern times it 's quite different . |
| 18 | Response has been excellent and we are putting them to good use — please keep them coming ! |
| 19 | Handling and storage are n't simple , either — the choices for natural gas are compressing it to 200-plus bars or liquefying at -167deg C. Liquefied propane is easier to handle and already accepted , particularly in places like cold stores , where toxic exhaust build-up would be tricky . |