Example sentences of "be [verb] [pron] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even in its innocent context near the start of Volume One , when the hobbits are using it only to help themselves along , it has an odd ring . |
| 2 | But are you living are you living , are you okay so you 've got nothing to live for erm and you 're finding something else to live for , is that revolution really , do you want the |
| 3 | A Rover spokesman said , ’ It is the German manufacturers which are forcing everyone else to follow suit just as the Germans forced catalytic convertors on the market as the answer to emission problems when most other manufacturers were developing lean burn engine technology to achieve the same result more effectively . ’ |
| 4 | Two old Rolling Thunderites are getting it together to house mini ramps of varying sizes inside a place off Old Street . |
| 5 | But I am forbidding you ever to attend another of those meetings . |
| 6 | Doctors have today been examining him again to try to assess whether there 's been any damage to his sight . |
| 7 | ‘ All it means is you ca n't sort yourself out and you are asking somebody else to do it for you . ’ |
| 8 | There are still major tailbacks there , though , and the police are asking you still to avoid it . |
| 9 | That is why I am asking you now to become a Friend of Save the Children . |
| 10 | Maybe that was why this picture just would n't work : she was expected to produce a suitable work in return for the fellowship that was supposed to be paying her just to paint . |
| 11 | I hardly think the aim can be to lure us somewhere to murder us . ’ |
| 12 | One of the most successful ways of giving a different quality to the steps and poses of classical dance and of transforming them into demi-caractère style is to relate them intimately to appropriate music . |
| 13 | ‘ If a person with knowledge of the facts pays money , which he is not in law bound to pay , and in circumstances implying that he is paying it voluntarily to close the transaction , he can not recover it . |
| 14 | The purpose of RE is to help them genuinely to reflect upon religion , opening up for them the possibility of a self-chosen and real commitment , religious or otherwise , so that the individual can freely play his or her role in the wider community , whether this be the faith community or society as a whole . |
| 15 | The easiest way to earn money from a patented invention is to license someone else to use it , and collect royalties . |
| 16 | all sorts of terrible stresses and the only sort of legitimate reason for collapsing is to allow somebody else to cope beautifully with your collapse . |
| 17 | ‘ God ordered their estate , ’ that is to teach you never to question your place in this world , never to envy those who have more than you , for it is GOD 's WILL ! |
| 18 | ‘ It seemed to take less of a hit to give me a concussion and it 's taking me longer to recover , ’ he says . |
| 19 | The only way you can stop getting paranoid about it is to get someone else to watch and tell you if you are doing anything wrong . |
| 20 | Be telling them then to grow up in er Westminster . |
| 21 | Out of control it caused dreadful havoc , but when it ran smoothly and sweetly it not only modified life 's aridity but added a pleasing dimension to the view , while Lydia , at present , was using it only to make mud pies . |
| 22 | It was tearing her apart to know how much he must love the pale , blank-eyed girl . |
| 23 | and used steel cans and that it was costing them less to use that than it was to use |
| 24 | She was wondering what else to try when her fingernail slid into a tiny groove on the inside edge of the uppermost star . |
| 25 | ‘ There was no way I was paying them just to change money . |
| 26 | Sounds as if he was doing it deliberately to get back at her , does n't it ? |
| 27 | Only the tightly clenched line of her jawbone revealed the enormous effort it was taking her just to stand upright . |
| 28 | Bathsheba was watching them carefully to make sure that the sheep were not injured , and that all the wool was cut off . |
| 29 | I did ring Agnes away back in January and thanked her for having you ; I was ringing her partly to tell her that , strangely , one of her Hungarian friends from Southampton ( called ) is now the computer expert at Chambers , whose services I 've been using recently to accomplish the final formatting of my questionnaire and piece of sample text . |