Example sentences of "be [verb] [pers pn] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So they can enter the secondary schools and they 're selling it to these young kids that just do n't know any better . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm not doing anything to you , ’ he breathed into her ear , ‘ we 're doing it to each other . ’ |
| 3 | Then a nurse and officer came and said , ‘ Come along , dear , we 're taking you to another wing . ’ |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | You 've been doing it to each other all the time but if I were to hurt you or if anybody else here were to hurt you physically or mentally how many times would you forgive them ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Yet familiarity may be blinding us to equal intelligence expressed by animals far closer to home . |
| 9 | That is their own fault because according to , there was a programme on there and it was saying they , they must be selling it to these firms that recy , that use it |
| 10 | ‘ What fun it would be to send it to that silly old Boldwood ! ’ laughed Liddy . |
| 11 | Come on , I 'm taking you to that little café down the road — what 's it called now ? ’ |
| 12 | Ring Jones and tell him I 'm taking you to this dinner . ’ |
| 13 | I 'm sorry I 'm putting you to all this trouble . ’ |
| 14 | Although Artemis have removed them from these frames they will be offering them to some of the purchasers as interesting records of the plates ' history in their own right . |
| 15 | ‘ If you are comparing it to modern times it 's quite different . |
| 16 | Companies that use computers have been connecting them to each other for a decade , often using AT&T 's telephone lines . |
| 17 | Nuclear energy has become an important tool for plant breeders and Russian horticultural researchers have been putting it to good use in their iris-breeding programmes . |
| 18 | Response has been excellent and we are putting them to good use — please keep them coming ! |
| 19 | You were lending them to this one here . |
| 20 | Their hatred of exploitation and their knowledge of western capitalism and the socialist movement it had brought into being led them to utopian socialist illusions . |
| 21 | See this was after the nationalization and the policy of the railway executive at that time was to instead of two stations in one town , they were all they were reducing it to one station you see . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Well I better not tell them because it will completely spoil their holiday but erm it 's h it 's interesting because we 've been mentioning it to other people I 'm sure they 've never . |
| 24 | The patterns of public accountability in the British constitutional set-up are extremely complex , and all I have been able to do here is to alert you to some key issues of relevance to the subject matter of this book . |
| 25 | And some go on to accuse him of tunnel-vision , saying they doubt whether he ever really wanted a peaceful settlement in the Gulf ; whether he now has a view of what American policy after the war should be ; and whether his single-minded determination to win the war is blinding him to other dangers . |
| 26 | Cos I think that what we will need to do is refer it to General Purposes Committee for and people to go and have a look at it . |
| 27 | I believe God is calling me to full-time service . |
| 28 | ‘ No one 's invited you to this party ! ’ |
| 29 | Most pupils ' experience of drama must be confined to ‘ drama lessons ’ and the easiest way to conduct such a short lesson is to devote it to improvised drama and movement , with its focus on individual objectives . |
| 30 | ‘ Perhaps he 's taking them to another field where there is more grass , ’ said the aunt . |