Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [pers pn] [adv] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I told 'im not to be so silly , or e 'd strain 'imself , and oo 'd 'ave to look after 'im then , I 'd like to know ? … |
| 2 | With usual confidence , I told her not to be ridiculous , the possibility was infinitesimal — and not very big either ! ) |
| 3 | I told him not to be silly and then he stabbed me . |
| 4 | ‘ Connor said he would climb out and I told him not to be stupid , ’ she said . |
| 5 | I never did like drag shows and I did n't want to spend the evening in the pub but I did it just to be with gay people . |
| 6 | But Susan hit back saying : ‘ She made me out to be some ditsy small-town mum who wanted to meet a star . |
| 7 | ‘ I suppose she made me out to be a right little idiot , ’ says Anya . |
| 8 | ‘ I told you that , ’ said Sam , indignantly , ‘ and you told me not to be so stupid . ’ |
| 9 | She told me not to be embarrassed about asking Diana to do the washing up and so on . ’ |
| 10 | She told me not to be silly and went and reported me . |
| 11 | She told him not to be so possessive about her and her body . |
| 12 | Mm , either way though , I mean the thing is if they do , you , you would be in for a little bit of something , if you hung it out till be , to being redundant |
| 13 | It was a charming letter , a well-managed mixture of humility and boastfulness , and she sent it down to be typed with a feeling of smugness . |
| 14 | Last night you trusted me enough to be your first lover . |
| 15 | ‘ They made me out to be a hooligan , which I 'm not . ’ |
| 16 | I met our Tony and Helen as I was coming here and they told me not to be long . |
| 17 | And they despised her for it , some of them , and they feared her for it , most of them ; but she did not care , so long as they paid her enough to be drunk on until the need to kill was irresistible again . |
| 18 | On the night before they took them out to be shot . |
| 19 | When doctors gave up hope of any recovery , they sent him home to be with Altovise when he died . |
| 20 | ‘ I suppose he made me out to be some kind of thief ! |
| 21 | He expected him henceforth to be both a Congregationalist and an Anglican . |
| 22 | He told her not to be silly . " |
| 23 | When Jesus was warning his followers about his own forthcoming death he told them not to be worried or upset but to put all their trust and confidence in him and in God . |
| 24 | He told me not to be impulsive and think it over , but I sha n't stay . |
| 25 | He 's from the North , talks a bit like us , he 's got the same kind of outlook and he told us not to be taken in by America , that it 's not real . |
| 26 | So he took it in to be looked at . |
| 27 | He sent them off to be analysed by the Department of Agriculture 's Zoology Department . |
| 28 | I , I would n't honestly say that it , he did it deliberately to be honest . |
| 29 | 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 ) . |