Example sentences of "be [verb] [pron] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it 's all so ironic — if my little tinkering with her inhaler had n't led to her death nobody would have known that Doreen guessed — that I 'd been helping myself to the firm 's cash now and then — only piffling amounts over the years I 'd been with them , a few thousand here and there , just enough for some designer clothes and jewellery . |
| 2 | Not for them the hollow reply , ‘ What meeting ? ’ when a call is made to check that they are bringing something to the pot luck supper at school that very evening . |
| 3 | An alternative explanation for price rises , for example , has been to relate them to the amount of money in circulation or the bullion value of the coinage . |
| 4 | However , at this moment I am addressing myself to the question of motive . |
| 5 | Property speculators in particular are addressing themselves to the question of what is to be done with the vast stretches of land once occupied by watch towers , border guards , dogs and rabbits . |
| 6 | It seems to me that very few staff are addressing themselves to the kinds of things ( e.g. resources , teaching style , subject content , and attitudes and the hidden curriculum ) that can be used to bring out the best of the pupils ' cultures and backgrounds . |
| 7 | And , Father , he asked — the lord sheriff asked — that I should beg you to have Brother Cadfael informed also , and when the morning comes , if you permit , I am to lead him to the place , to meet the sheriff there . |
| 8 | Those Israelis whom this behaviour most appals have long been likening it to the earlier stages of Nazism , an analogy that found startling vindication with the recent disclosure that some units in the occupied territories draw on Nazi precedents for their own self-image , one calling itself the ‘ Mengele detachment ’ and another ‘ the Auschwitz company ’ . |
| 9 | So we 're testing , those priorities are still holding for us that but we 're applying them to the localities . |
| 10 | They 're keeping me to the contract … wanting their pound o ’ flesh . |
| 11 | You 're pushing me to the limit , ’ she whispered , cringing into the brocade settle and holding her drink in front of her defensively . |
| 12 | In the ground attack side we 're comparing it to the jaguar that it 'll replace , the harrier G R seven and also the tornado G R four and then in the multi-role arena for air defence , air superiority and attack we 're comparing our aircraft against the French Raphall the American F eighteen E which is the the future variant of the F eighteen , the F fifteen E , the multi-role but primarily air to surface machine and also the F sixteen C. Those are the ones we 're currently looking at . |
| 13 | If you 're leaving it to the experts , tell your hairdresser EVERYTHING about your hair such as : |
| 14 | She 'd been wearing it to the office that morning and put on an overall for the art class in the afternoon . |
| 15 | ‘ Then how do you know you are to give it to the Sheikh Osman ? ’ |
| 16 | Said Professor Hoskins of the University of Reading : " We know that human activities are doing something to the system but computer models are too crude at present to predict what will happen . " |
| 17 | However , an increasing number of countries are committing themselves to the goal of immunising 80% of their children by 1990 under the World Health Organization 's Extended Programme on Immunisation ( EPI ) . |
| 18 | Washington seems content to let the United Nations disband the Contras , but Mr Pickering and other US officials have been linking it to the disbanding of the FMLN , without explicitly making it a condition for Washington 's cooperation . |
| 19 | The key seems to be shaping it to the particular client . |
| 20 | We are immensely proud to be bringing it to the UK for the first time . |
| 21 | All you would have to do would be to lead them to the smugglers ' rendezvous and supervise the action . ’ |
| 22 | It would be nice to imagine the reader , having ingested the reader , having ingested the above , musing , ‘ Oh , I never thought of that ’ — which is , after all , the response elicited by all cultural commentators — but I have no illusions that I 'm teaching anything to the individual or individuals responsible for the original design . |
| 23 | Molesworth claimed that the House would not be committing itself to the larger scheme , nevertheless it was not in a mood for what George Bankes called an ‘ extensive scheme to enable Cabinet Ministers to entertain foreign visitors and their friends ’ . |
| 24 | Putting this point on a more theoretical level , the musical field and the class structure at any given moment , though clearly not unconnected , comprise different ‘ maps ’ of social/cultural space , and they can not be reduced one to the other ( see Williams 1981 ) . |
| 25 | ‘ I ca n't stand it — I 'm taking them — I 'm giving them to the dogs … . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ No , I 'm taking her to the doctor 's . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Do n't forget , I 'm taking you to the Stadt Berlin . |
| 28 | I 'm taking you to the bank , ’ he muttered in her ear , his voice reverberating through her body . |
| 29 | I 'm taking you to the Jolly Farmers . |
| 30 | Having come this far , and having made the effort to come first , I reflected only briefly as the Commandant in front of me , with his four gold bars on his shoulders , signed a piece of paper and said , ‘ I 'm posting you to the 2ème Régiment Étranger de Parachutistes . ’ |