Example sentences of "be [adv] [Wh det] [pron] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | What few people seem to accept is that he might be exactly what he appears to be . |
| 2 | ‘ We won at Wimbledon last month and Vinny might be just what they need to gee them up . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm always what I want to be , ’ she said with a frown . |
| 4 | In some cases people are invited into a laboratory and may be given tasks to carry out which may or may not be quite what they seem to be . |
| 5 | They supply energy , essential protein , vitamins , minerals and bulk , and it is only what you do to them , that adds on the calories and fats . |
| 6 | Yes well that 's exactly what they said to me . |
| 7 | That 's exactly what they said to Mike the clerk , how you going to pay ? |
| 8 | down all these Coronation Street type houses , and erm one of her friends was on the telephone the other night and er this chap draws up in the car and she says I , I wo n't be a minute , and he comes straight out of his car , he said I 'll give you one minute he said , I 'll drive my car and come back down that ro up back to the telephone box and he said if you ai n't gone by then he said I 'll smash your fucking face in , that 's exactly what he said to her . |
| 9 | ‘ That 's just what I said to myself when I woke up this morning , but when I looked on the floor , there was the veil , torn in two halves ! ’ |
| 10 | ‘ That 's just what I said to Mr Yarrow . |
| 11 | It 's like what I said to Tony last night when I got in I said , I feel I could have achieved more if I 'd stayed at home and revised . |
| 12 | ‘ That 's really what I wanted to be like — all the cosmetics mentioned were products I used growing up . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ It was exactly what I said to Kathleen when she was so worried about you in hospital . ’ |
| 14 | He 'd then offered to come back with her , so that she was n't returning to an empty house alone , at which point — running out of soothing phrases and patience — she 'd told him that alone was exactly what she wanted to be . |
| 15 | He had seen that Charity Marlowe was exactly what she appeared to be . |
| 16 | He designed from the inside out and , despite the basic similarities of his main plan types , he never had difficulty in giving his major buildings a very individual architectural expression in which every element of the design was exactly what it appeared to be . |
| 17 | What called out to her was surely what she felt to be Pollock 's destiny as an artist . |
| 18 | How could Mrs Hollidaye consider allowing Dot to return to that unsafe place where the air robbed your cheeks of their roses , where buildings collapsed though the bombs had long since stopped , where there was no glass in half the windows , no water in the taps , where nothing was quite what it seemed to be . |