Example sentences of "be [det] [verb] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 're all goin' to Ardneavie , are n't we ? |
| 2 | Because you know what he 's like when he gets talking , he talks so much he just cuts all your hair off Ye yeah it 's all cut on the sides and cos , cos they 're all taught to finger dry and what have you , he does all this and what have you . |
| 3 | I discovered they 're all switching to health foods , cutting out fat , salt and pork . |
| 4 | I spect they 're all going to work or summat . |
| 5 | WIRRAL 'S gone to Wembley now we 're all going to Italy ! |
| 6 | they 're all going to college . |
| 7 | In my whole life of collecting and I suppose it 's a little bit to assuage my conscience I 've always been able to say to myself that I 'm allowed to have these things and enjoy them , but eventually they 're all going to museums . |
| 8 | We 're making a profit now — yes , we 're all going to Plymouth next week to buy new shoes , so you see , we 're Croesuses ! |
| 9 | Dependence/addiction are easily distinguished : we 're all dependent on friendship , but we 're all addicted to oxygen . |
| 10 | with Steeros we 're both going to Miami and back |
| 11 | PROFESSOR GEORGE Teeling-Smith has provided the nation with a grim warning , and one we should do well to heed before we are all poisoned to death . |
| 12 | To return to the question of how these topics can be integrated into the initial professional training of foreign language teachers , we would point out that none of the topics is entirely new even to those who have not been involved in linguistics in their academic course and , secondly , that they are all related to questions of classroom practice . |
| 13 | Unlike other members of his family , who are all related to Miss Havisham , he refuses to flatter her or dance attendance on her in the hopes of a legacy . |
| 14 | Eurotunnel has around 24m warrants in issue and will net over Pounds 100m if they are all converted to shares . |
| 15 | Wednesday are sponsored by the Premier League football club and the girls are all travelling to Wembley for tomorrow 's FA Cup semi-final . |
| 16 | We are all going to FRANCE . |
| 17 | This is probably because they are all adapted to forest or woodland conditions and none of them has developed the close-knit social formations that are characteristic of open-country animals . |
| 18 | Far and away the most important powers , however , are those delegated to Ministers of the Crown . |
| 19 | The closed set elements in a sentence are those belonging to classes whose membership is virtually constant during the lifetime of an individual speaker ( on a longer time-scale they do , of course , change ) . |
| 20 | The most notable are those dedicated to S. Mary and to S. John . |
| 21 | Among the 122 works on show will be those relating to projects for monumental sculpture and architecture , particularly of the Seventies and Eighties , including maquettes for five works installed in the grounds of the Fondation Gianadda . |
| 22 | I found that Mrs Knelle regarded the Ascendancy as comic dodos , and took for granted that they were all opposed to Home Rule . |
| 23 | The assembly instructions were all written to US specification which provided an interesting conversion problem for the youngsters who took up the challenge . |
| 24 | Jess Bawden completed a busy term as an executive officer for O. U. S. U. and Sarah Carter , Therese Coffey and Theresa Roque were all elected to positions in the Oxford Union . |
| 25 | Stewart , Surrey coach Geoff Arnold and secretary David Seward were all summoned to Lord 's for a disciplinary hearing . |
| 26 | At their trial , in which Mathews was the principal prosecution witness , they were all sentenced to life imprisonment with a recommendation they serve not less than twenty years . |
| 27 | The Royal Cross School at that time operated on the Pure Oral system , but the boys were all led to safety by using sign language to communicate amongst the glare of the flames and through dense smoke ! |
| 28 | They were all standing to attention . |
| 29 | The daily spin of the Earth , the roughly monthly orbit of the moon , and the yearly passage of the Earth around the sun , were all used to measure the flow of time . |
| 30 | As actors , they were all used to people looking different off-screen , but none of them had expected him to be so tall . |