Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] be [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One believed himself to be Mario Lanza , and , at the mention of a ‘ key ’ word , would assault a well-known aria in a way that would have peeled the paint off any bathroom wall . |
| 2 | The preacher at its official opening in 1896 was the Revd John Hugh Smyth-Pigott who later proclaimed himself to be Jesus Christ and who became Prince 's successor at the Agapemone . |
| 3 | Instead he insisted that God as revealed in Jesus is he who has freely bound himself to be God for man , and that his primary essential characteristics are therefore love and freedom , ‘ God is he who loves in freedom ! ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Ginny , we want you to be David 's godmother , too … ’ |
| 5 | ‘ The guy would obviously like you to be Senhora Haraldsen , ’ he said . |
| 6 | Then you come to Godstowe , armed with letters proclaiming you to be Deveril . |
| 7 | At that moment the front door bell rang and the voice on the intercom declared itself to be Doctor Hawkes . |
| 8 | But a few sidelong glances revealed them to be He-Shes . |
| 9 | She knew him to be Alexander Rokovssky , the dark tool of autocratic monarchs and a fanatical servant of Tsarism , a man who could slit another 's throat or shoot him at point-blank range without any change of expression . |
| 10 | We can at least begin to understand the human life and affection and anger and doubts and suffering and death of God in a way that we could not possibly begin to understand what it means for him to be God . |
| 11 | Iago 's practice of inversion , by which he destroys Cassio while making him and others believe him to be Cassio 's friend , and by which he turns Desdemona 's purity into a black , viscous liquid that will catch his victims like birds in quicklime , has been fully established by Shakespeare and shown to be successful . |
| 12 | She was of mature years , and he rightly guessed her to be Mrs Heatherton . |
| 13 | Local publicity soon established her to be Louisa Kruckenberg , whose father , the Rev Frederick Thomas Kruckenberg , who became vicar of Lower Dunsforth , between Boroughbridge and York , in 1911 . |
| 14 | Mum meant it to be Israel , after her rabbinical father so I made a compromise later by labelling myself Israel Jack ) . |
| 15 | There was a truce between Rose and Gabriel , but none between Shirley and Gabriel because Gaby had discovered it to be Shirley who had leaked her secret to Rose . |
| 16 | Nowhere in particular just want it to be Friday . |
| 17 | Westfields , Virginia-based Genicom Corp reports that Dell Computer Corp has chosen it to be Dell 's preferred printer provider : financial terms were not released , but Genicom said the partnership is expected to be a multimillion dollar opportunity for both companies . |
| 18 | In my warm , sleepy contentment I expected it to be Toby , the Toby of before . |
| 19 | I 'm sure he 'd like it to be Connon , but he does n't try to bend matters . |
| 20 | The voice spread like ink through blotting paper and seeped across his mind until it reached the nerve that knew it to be Bella 's . |
| 21 | Was it to be Masha or I ? |
| 22 | Disease-resistant cultivars at Snowshill have shown themselves to be Rosa rugosa ‘ Roserie de l'Hay ’ , R. rugosa ‘ Frau Dagmar Hartopp ’ , R. ‘ Excelsa ’ , ‘ Felicite et Perpetue ’ and ‘ Felicia ’ , Rosa spinosissima and Rosa rubrifolia . |
| 23 | But then , he reminded himself , so do those who believe themselves to be Napoleon , or Alexander , or God . |