Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] be the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To see Thee is the end and the beginning , |
| 2 | What was to heal them was the act of obedience to what God had said , and faith in what he had said . |
| 3 | The only force which separates them is the Church , the one single coherent organisation in this country which binds like mortar the different races and degrees of this nation . |
| 4 | I saw no one on the long lonely road home , and the only enemy that attacked me was the midges . |
| 5 | As we have seen the Prague School were also interested in the content of texts as well as their language , but what concerned them was the structure of the content as a self-contained system of signs to be separated out into its different levels , not the overall impression that it conveys . |
| 6 | What 's annoyed me is the fact that you borrowed out five grand without even bothering to mention it to me . ’ |
| 7 | What got me was the way she made this rather bizarre suggestion seem so utterly reasonable . |
| 8 | What really angers me is the exploitation of young women like us by advertisers , to sell their products . |
| 9 | The main thing that upsets me is the fact that she 's a bastard . |
| 10 | ALL THAT WAS GIVEN ME WAS THE MATTER OF THREE SCENES , AND THE CENTRAL IDEA OF A VOLUNTARY CHANGE BECOMING INVOLUNTARY . |
| 11 | ‘ Do you really think I 'm the kind of man who would run from anything ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I do n't think I 'm the kind of man who ought to have a working wife . ’ |
| 13 | If I did n't know Karen I should think I was the candidate for diabetes . |
| 14 | The heads of these charming horsemen are so like that of the boxer that one might think his was the stele this base supported . |
| 15 | ‘ The thing is , ’ she said , ‘ that he still thinks I 'm the person he used to know when we all lived in the old hole in the bank . |
| 16 | Manipulation of ‘ needs ’ by both creating them and satisfying them is the process by which social control is effected . |
| 17 | What worries me is the fate of the fox if hunting stops . |
| 18 | ‘ What worries me is the assumption in the town is that the replay result is a foregone conclusion . |
| 19 | The indifference of Limnititzkers to the great outdoors is well-known ; the only landscapes that interest them are the hills of a totally discorporeal Zion . |
| 20 | They know that , unless I am very fortunate , the only chance I 'll have to catch them is the moment in which they take the ransom , and they know equally well that you wo n't risk your daughter 's life by telling me where that 's going to happen . |
| 21 | Regularly used in connection with such occasions-and very probably the term used to designate them is the word " honouring " : for example , and the honouring of accession and of campaign respectively ; and for the more personal occasions , and the honouring of one 's becoming kazasker and Mufti respectively . |
| 22 | Well I do n't know I 'm the biology department , what 's he trying to do there ? |
| 23 | ‘ I mean , I realise I 'm the baby of the family , and a mere female — ’ the latter drew a bleak smile from her father , acknowledging a point of contention between them spanning several years ‘ — but I do n't see how just a fire can mean the end of everything ! |
| 24 | it 's easy , you just say I 'm the Government , give me your money , |
| 25 | I pretended I was the photographer and she pretended she was the writer . |
| 26 | Eventually Rain said : ‘ Barbara Coleman has been threatened , Edouard has been beaten up and Sabine Jourdain has been murdered — and all because no one is to know she was the painter and not Durance . ’ |
| 27 | I pretended I was the photographer and she pretended she was the writer . |
| 28 | The Bulgarians sombrely suggest that she is a dead mother looking for her own baby , while the Spanish say she is the GHOST of an aunt or grandmother , looking to make a gift to her descendants . |
| 29 | What , say you 're the care-giver and I 'm the |
| 30 | ‘ Sir Fulke , you say you are the executor of Sir Ralph 's will ? ’ |