Example sentences of "they be [verb] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are taking him to Miami , America , for a visit to Disneyland . |
| 2 | Now they are taking her to the High Court . |
| 3 | Many solicitors , in writing a letter for a client , will misrepresent the law , even though they are addressing themselves to a layman , and will lend themselves to various abuses and suppressions ( not involving a breach of law ) in order to obstruct a just claim . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | They are reconciling themselves to their own mortality . |
| 6 | They know they are drinking themselves to death and in such an instance the social worker has no legal powers to intervene . |
| 7 | And , of course , they are buying them to be trendy . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , not only are legal firms unable to maximise the amount of extra business they can sell through cross-fertilisation of other specialised services , they are losing it to other providers of information and advice . |
| 9 | It 's trusting me to understand the significance of it and why they are giving it to me . ’ |
| 10 | Girls can be encouraged to take modules in technology without feeling they are committing themselves to two years ' or more work ; low achieving pupils can take a range of modules without suffering the indignity of following a programme that marks them out as ‘ different ’ . |
| 11 | But people now are coming in and they 're expecting everything to be here . |
| 12 | They 're promoting themselves to a very significant extent on the basis that they 're selling at cheaper prices to the public . |
| 13 | And the way the management work in here , I can say is they , aim they 're promoting anybody to a chargehand they usually promote somebody that 's actually no threat to themselves . |
| 14 | Right , they 're accusing him to be claiming to be God and they actually say they actually say their decision is that he 's guilty and should be put to death , they 've condemned him to death . |
| 15 | I told you they want to do another X-ray , and they 're sending him to Carlisle for that , the Cumberland Infirmary . ’ |
| 16 | They 're keeping me to the contract … wanting their pound o ’ flesh . |
| 17 | So they can enter the secondary schools and they 're selling it to these young kids that just do n't know any better . |
| 18 | They 're changing it to more exams I mean , it changes to G C S E in the first place to get rid of having |
| 19 | Where would they be taking it to and who would be drawing ? |
| 20 | If they were to report it to the company the whole crew could lose their jobs . ’ |
| 21 | They were speaking words she could not grasp but now they were speaking them to her rather than to each other and their tone was sympathetic , cajoling . |
| 22 | That 's you know it was all purely hypothetical the figures they produced but er they were comparing it to what we had pr previously been producing we all sort of realized that for a set production figure we could have been up to forty pound worse off , per week . |
| 23 | ‘ If they were taking him to the police station , why did they walk three miles . |
| 24 | The first signs of a solution to the financial problem began to appear ; the settlers started growing tobacco and by 1611 they were exporting it to England . |
| 25 | They were saying something to me about there wo n't be that bigger fall . |
| 26 | Sorry , did I miss out on something , that , did n't they say who they were selling it to ? |
| 27 | See this was after the nationalization and the policy of the railway executive at that time was to instead of two stations in one town , they were all they were reducing it to one station you see . |
| 28 | Checking their activities to see that they were confining themselves to local products , and were not turning to smuggling was very difficult until improvements in transport and in the structure of government meant that the vast majority of imports paid duty . |
| 29 | Magellan captured a number of these immense people — one pair by the crud trick of showing them leg-irons and insisting that the proper way to carry them was to allow them to be locked around their ankles . |