Example sentences of "[verb] to be [indef pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For each person is unique and it is useless as well as mistaken to try to be someone else . |
| 2 | In a water that is largely featureless it does n't need to be anything too pronounced to be attractive to fish . |
| 3 | One evening when they were coming back from the hunt , he pretended to be someone else and , all alone , jumped on Albuin pretending that he was going to steal by violence the horse Albuin was mounted on . |
| 4 | The majority of Rottweilers are kept as pets : this is a pigeon-hole Rottweilers do not fit into with ease ; there has to be something else . |
| 5 | It has to be something else . |
| 6 | There has to be something already in existence — a theory , a practice , an artefact — for criticism to have any purchase . |
| 7 | So the best source from which to obtain your ferrets has to be someone deeply committed to the animals , someone who keeps his own working and breeding stock and who from time to time may have a surplus . |
| 8 | Everyone wants to be somebody here and , once they are , they usually want to be somebody else . |
| 9 | I want to be something here I want to be something in law |
| 10 | Everyone wants to be somebody here and , once they are , they usually want to be somebody else . |
| 11 | I 'd just like to get off my ladder and stop pretending to be somebody else , just be ordinary and not get away with doing this or that — and get away with it laughing . |
| 12 | ‘ Mm — well , there does appear to be something there . ’ |
| 13 | The cuts in the hand were superficial and there seemed to be nothing else wrong . |
| 14 | There seemed to be nothing else nowadays , and in any case Roland did not want to be thought insular . |
| 15 | There seemed to be nothing else to say . |
| 16 | At first there seemed to be nothing there , but as he watched the figure of a man emerged . |
| 17 | There seemed to be nothing now to hang the rest of her life on , and Alain had a very disturbing effect on her . |
| 18 | But there always seemed to be something else to be done about the farm . |
| 19 | There always seemed to be someone else to hand over to . |
| 20 | It 's vital that music in school is n't seen to be something entirely separate from what they are familiar with at home on TV . |
| 21 | The future is going to be one long , looped soundtrack , a disc that just plays on for ever . |
| 22 | And I suddenly realized at this stage that there was going to be something rather unexpected happening . |
| 23 | The gasoline bill at the end of the month is going to be something else ! ’ |
| 24 | But there 's always going to be someone somewhere who will be fascinated by it and want to do something against you . |
| 25 | When I 'd checked the pin positions in the morning I 'd decided that it was going to be someone already under par who would be in a position to win next day as opposed to someone coming through the field , because I just could n't see anybody scoring well . |
| 26 | It is not going to be anyone high up from Grand Met . ’ |
| 27 | Now , as well as actual planes flying in the skies , are there going to be anything else that people can actually feel and touch and see ? |
| 28 | Hank already had the feeling that his life was going to be anything but normal and was adamant about leaving school , but agreed reluctantly to tell his father when next he came home . |
| 29 | GOD KNOWS what they 're putting in the water in Seattle these days , but it 's got to be something pretty potent . |
| 30 | GOD KNOWS what they 're putting in the water in Seattle these days , but it 's got to be something pretty potent . |