Example sentences of "[det] be the word [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These were the words she had longed to hear , the ones she had wished for that day at the Trevi Fountain . |
| 2 | Freedom … safety … those are the words you must bear in mind now , Mikhail . |
| 3 | Those were the words he spoke to her as she lay in his arms in the vulnerable moments following his pleasure when only a lout — in his opinion — would turn away from a woman without a word and go to sleep . |
| 4 | It would , he did say , any sensible priest would n't want them to stand out , I think those were the words he used , immediately anyway . |
| 5 | The voice did not come from Cornelius , although those were the words he had in mind to use . |
| 6 | Those were the words she had to remember . |
| 7 | Those were the words she used . |
| 8 | Those were the words she would choose , she decided vengefully , after Dame Sybil had tucked her into bed and returned to the hall . |
| 9 | At the end of 1976 I actually met several people , whom I could talk to , who acknowledged that they were gay and , as a consequence , I then subsequently admitted — and that 's the word I still use — that I was gay . |
| 10 | GUIL : If that 's the word I 'm after . |
| 11 | If that 's the word I 'm after . |
| 12 | That 's the word I think you 're looking for . |
| 13 | Yeah I know but Marks and Spencers are a crap shop I do n't care if they go out of business they 're a rip off anyway , they 're so expensive , such crap clothes , they 're so common , that 's the word I 've been looking for common , that 's my word of the week I think er common common , does it not get to ya looking like everyone else ? |
| 14 | That was the word they used as a condition : So long as you stay balanced , darling . ’ |