Example sentences of "be [Wh det] [pron] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps I could have tried harder to be what she wanted in a daughter-in-law . |
| 2 | I had been what I saw as a stop-gap anchor-man for Report , the teatime news programme , for less than eighteen months . |
| 3 | It 's what they mean by a mini- series . |
| 4 | Right okay so that 's why it 's important that we get I mean if we just got one neutron out then theoretically you could sustain a chain reaction , but in practice it would be absorbed , it would n't they would n't all hit , some of them would miss , but as long as we can get on average about one , of those three , hitting another one , we can keep it going , and we get this chain reaction going and th the heat really builds up then , and that 's what they use in a a nuclear reaction reactor . |
| 5 | That 's what I say to a lot of people today , they moan about dockers but they 're only fighting for their rights . |
| 6 | Erm leave that one cos that 's what I bought as a spare . |
| 7 | It 's what I do for a living . |
| 8 | That 's what I did with a cup of tea this morning did n't I ? |
| 9 | so you close him on his final objection , you listen , you then sell him his objection , right , you sell him his objection , right , you confirm his answer , right , whatever he says to you and his answer you actually confirm it back to him , you do n't interrupt him , right , you do n't guess where he 's at , right and basically if work through a system you 'll get on there , now for me to be able to , to , to , what I 've just said to you is a load of garbage , but if I was sitting I was sitting actually go through each one of these steps and that 's what you term as a closing sequence , you see what I mean ? |
| 10 | ‘ A lot of the record , ’ Rowland sighs , ‘ is about other people 's perceptions of you and how if enough people treat you in a certain way that 's what you become after a while . |
| 11 | Er , that 's what you see on a Saturday |
| 12 | Now the authority of the community was carried by the Sanhedrin they brought him to what is what they accepted as a trial erm they 'd assessed that something was going against their structures , and as I 've already said religious life was the most important thing he 'd broken it seems a religious law and the council the court the gathering together of the seventy members of the Sanhedrin were going to in a serious sort of way check this out , check this accusation out . |
| 13 | What will they do to people if this is what they do to a dumb animazl that has n't even annoyed them . |
| 14 | Notice that I have a red pencil and a blue one has no crossed interpretation , which is what we expect from a genuine ambiguity . |
| 15 | This is what I do for a living and this is what I enjoy doing . |
| 16 | Ian , a 32-year-old salesman , says : ‘ I made a conscious decision to drink low-alcohol lager because entertaining , and therefore drinking , is what I do for a living . |
| 17 | But what comes out of it is what you give as a human being . |
| 18 | That was what he did for a living and it stayed with him all his life . |
| 19 | The hay rick well it was That was what I speak about a a a cole Tramp cole where the hay r Hay was the tramp cole . |