Example sentences of "be the word [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's , it 's living in harmony I suppose will be the word you know the , the environment sort of moves in to the power station and does n't get attacked , everywhere else gets attacked you know , people scrub up the weeds in the garden and things like that , here they 're allowed to grow , the butterflies come in , insects , great you know just , just love it . |
| 2 | So if you start using scare quotes , it may be the words you do not put them round which become the problem . |
| 3 | you say any word and see if the LH reacts to it as being the word you meant to say . |
| 4 | ‘ Too soon ’ were the words I used . ’ |
| 5 | The voice did not come from Cornelius , although those were the words he had in mind to use . |
| 6 | They were the words he had been wanting to hear and with an exultant roar , and with both arms at once around her , he pulled her close up to him . |
| 7 | ‘ There is no need for sadness or shame , Kraal ! ’ were the words he spoke , not knowing where the thoughts in his mind were coming from . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Underneath , on the same stone , were the words she had added : |
| 11 | Those were the words she had to remember . |
| 12 | These were the words she had longed to hear , the ones she had wished for that day at the Trevi Fountain . |
| 13 | Those were the words she used . |
| 14 | It is the word we have heard so often in Genesis . |
| 15 | ‘ Gone ’ is the word they use . |
| 16 | ‘ Stalemate is the word I think you want , ’ she said , congratulating herself on her dry tone . |
| 17 | I should say I hardly recognised him but scarcely is the word I have picked up in the strange places to which Sebastian and I have journeyed . |
| 18 | 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 ? |
| 19 | That 's the word I think you 're looking for . |
| 20 | There 's an ux-ux-what 's the word I want ? ’ |
| 21 | And then it was further endorsed because I went to hear him at Johnstown and I thought to myself well I felt sorry that he was erm what 's the word I want ? |
| 22 | Because I did n't think he 'd have the erm what 's the word I want ? |
| 23 | They , what 's the word you want ? |
| 24 | You see what we 're saying , it 's , it 's the words you use in your objective . |
| 25 | Them 's the words he used to me |
| 26 | Wherever the early Christians went , it was the Word they carried ( Acts 8:4 ) . |
| 27 | That was the word they used as a condition : So long as you stay balanced , darling . ’ |
| 28 | They said lost of women need to be — what was the word they used ? — cajoled into sex . |
| 29 | And it was new seeing her mother leaning back with a drink and a cigarette , looking years younger than her age ; and she herself felt different , older , suddenly , if older was the word she wanted . |
| 30 | Obligations was the word he used . |