Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [prep] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Early in 1907 the SMET enquired whether any more were available , and received the reply that only two were left out of the batch of 10 , the others having been disposed of to Swansea ( 4 ) , and Jarrow ( 2 ) . |
| 2 | When no other funding was available , one or other of the wealthier members of the RCM could be relied upon to chip in a contribution . |
| 3 | Then our mothers would be prevailed upon to loan metal meat skewers with which to bore holes in the centres of the conkers . |
| 4 | one of the things I 'm thinking of in the longer term and I I bounced this of er was that if groups moved to Stansted could not be moved across to groups to sort this problem out because I think she 's getting bored in what she 's doing |
| 5 | Yet it is strange that the same evening Tutilo should be sent for to Longner . |
| 6 | This has now been cut from to 3% 6.7% , but according to chairman Mike Tilbrook , the remaining holding ‘ continues to show a useful paper profit ’ . |
| 7 | To set the problem in more concrete terms , we must seek an answer to the question as to why make and have are followed by the bare infinitive , while cause , occasion , get and all the other causatives are construed with to infinitives . |
| 8 | ‘ I am thinking , Miss Abernethie , she is perhaps wondering , Like myself , why you were sent for to Naples in the middle of the new-engaged couple 's holiday . |
| 9 | Erm work was organized during to Saturday night during the possession which included people standing in the four-foot i in the tracks . |
| 10 | I was helped down to street level and pushed out . |