Example sentences of "i be [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now they have brought forward a plan which is that they should lend me sufficient money to rent another house in which Mr Landor is to have the first floor , comprising three rooms , a book closet , and a terrace , and I am to reside on the ground floor and care for him receiving £30 a year for my trouble . |
| 2 | He was celebrated at court for the eloquence of his sermons , and in 1683 Lord Dartmouth , who commanded the large fleet which was to visit Tangiers and evacuate its garrison , implored him ‘ For God 's sake , and as I am to answer for the preservation of so many souls as he hath put under my care ’ , to join the expedition as his chief chaplain . |
| 3 | I 'm to leave in the morning , remember ? ’ |
| 4 | " Mother Benedicta told me yesterday that in a year or two I 'm to go to the village of Yelton . |
| 5 | Yet I am bound to start with it , if I 'm to talk about the story of Jackson Pollock and his wife , the painter Lee Krasner . |
| 6 | ‘ But if this Jo answers , I 'm to stick to the script right ? ’ |
| 7 | Even less radical , if I 'm to stand by the comments I made last month ) ; or something that we think is missing from current trends ( something a bit retro maybe , but where 's your originality ? ) . |
| 8 | I have been living in the city for three years and if I were to go to the estates now they would n't give me work . |
| 9 | I could never replace you … never find your equal if I were to look until the very day I die . ’ |
| 10 | The fact that the ordnance survey map of Ben Lawers proudly declared a Visitor Centre at the base left me no choice in the route I was to take to the top . |
| 11 | Lord Lloyd interviewed me , and explained that I was to report to the Military Attaché at the Baghdad Embassy , though I was to be attached to the British Institute . |
| 12 | This was a vehicle with all mod cons at the rear of the bus , which I had followed many times and checked on its progress flying over the route ; oddly enough , on my last night in Mespot I was to sleep in the Imperial Airways rest fort at Rutbah Wells , I had refuelled there many times and had wondered with awe at the vast ugly route-flying Imperial aircraft — Handley Page HP42s — and even more so at the passengers who took an even greater interest in our tiny single-engined Wapiti aircraft , and furthermore asked endless questions about our aircraft and of our life in Baghdad . |
| 13 | The idea was , I was to go to the foster parents , stay there until the baby was born and mobile , and then move to a flat . |
| 14 | So this is , what got me a bit suspicious right , well I speaking to her and all and I said , well you know , this is it and , you know she said she knows George is , is meant to be coming up and I said look and I says and I 'm gon na go down onto the floor here , and just as I was to go onto the floor there was a phone call right , and it was Alice . |
| 15 | I was to speak to the Consul General . ’ |
| 16 | If I wanted assistance , I was to speak into the intercom . |
| 17 | In the autumn of that year I was to wedge into the mirror of my college bedsitting-room a piece of paper bearing the following lines : ‘ Life 's a cheat and all things shew it/I thought so once and now I know it ’ . |
| 18 | During this time Shadwell had me concentrate on the animal noises I was to make between the dialogue , so that when , for instance , I was talking to Kaa the slithering snake , who saves Mowgli 's life , I had to hiss . |
| 19 | It started all wrong with an aggravating incident indoors when I was to run against the American Mel Lattany and Earl Tulloch . |
| 20 | As a recently joined member of CAMRA , I must say how appalled I was to read of the new rules for the Champion Beer of Britain Competition for 1992 . |
| 21 | so , if I was to walk into the place that was selling these |
| 22 | In fact , I was to stay with the new company . |