Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [adv] [prep] be the " in BNC.
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| 1 | er , when you know you go home and lying on the doormat on the Friday night is a great tome of paper that came second post which made me out to be the biggest idiot philanderer , thief , cheat and liar in the world |
| 2 | He knew what blow had knocked proud Lucifer , the first angel , out of the sky and hurtled him down to be the founder of Hell . |
| 3 | The blood had been washed from his face and body , and he was still wearing the very good quality underwear that showed him indeed to be the son of an aristocratic family , who , despite Robespierre and Talleyrand still gave one of their sons to the Church . |
| 4 | They were completely unworldly and thus brought us up to be the same . |
| 5 | ‘ I never made her out to be the Lady of the Camellias , ’ protested Hilary . |
| 6 | Pugh attributed the Philippos letters to Granville Penn , and he considered him also to be the likely author of the Zoophilus letters ( a possible alternative author might be Dr Priestley of Birmingham ) . |
| 7 | They only person in the play to whom he reveals some of his real feelings is Roderigo , but only while using him as a tool , spending his money , and working him up to be the accomplice in his attack on Othello . |