Example sentences of "be [art] [noun] [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And I am the rest of us . ’ |
| 2 | Yes I am the outcome of it all is that she 's waiting on the wall , getting piles and I 'm going to go down the shop with her . |
| 3 | ‘ However bitter you may feel about it , the properties were entailed and I am the heir to them , like it or not . ’ |
| 4 | Pericles ' position is ( almost everywhere : see p. 126 on finance ) described by Thucydides as if his authority depended solely on charismatic qualities of leadership , but this can not have been the whole of it . |
| 5 | He was there once more as she turned into the staff car park as again she recalled that ‘ blunt ’ had n't been the word for it ! |
| 6 | As you know there have been the history of it is , is well known to most commissioners I 'm sure , there have been m there has been more than one attempt in the recent , in the last decade to bring something to the assembly er along these lines . |
| 7 | The exhibition was opened on 1 August by Dr Finlay MacLeod , whose enthusiasm for Hebridean maps had been the inspiration behind it , and by the time the exhibition closed on 31 October it had proved to be the most successful exhibition ever mounted by the Library , with an attendance of over 20,000 visitors . |
| 8 | He had always been the gentleman with her , and if , at times , he had regretted what he would ultimately do to her , because he had begun to care for her more than his plan demanded , he could not let that deter him . |
| 9 | In a real sense league has been the making of him , supplying the hard gloss finish he might never have acquired in union . |
| 10 | What would have been the consequences for you had you been prosecuted ? |
| 11 | I put it down , and I phoned the people I thought might have been the recipients of it , to make sure it was genuine , |
| 12 | However , many clients were supported by the scheme , and it is only through comparison with the control sample that one can determine whether or not the project was successful in sustaining them at home for a longer period of time than would have been the case without it . |
| 13 | And that , presumably , had been the beginning of it . |
| 14 | It may have been the sight of him bowling ‘ from the asylum end ’ , but the brawny de Kretser took 6 for 14 and masterminded a four-wicket win for the Ceylonese XI . |
| 15 | Strictly a non-professional , his rank of brigadier was simply for purposes of authority in certain quarters and at sixty-five , an age when most men faced retirement , even at Oxford , the war had been the saving of him , that was the blunt truth . |
| 16 | Sheila guessed how great had been the strain upon him as he crouched within sight of the quarry-gulf , looking into its waiting mouth , unable to move an inch . |
| 17 | But whatever Neil 's reasons , the ring had been the start of it . |
| 18 | The first night after the cocktail party had been the start of it all . |
| 19 | What had been the point of it all ? |
| 20 | That should have been the end of it . |
| 21 | He got rid of me and that should have been the end of it . |
| 22 | As Michael Gordon explained in these pages two decades ago : ‘ If all Blake had offered was a framework , that would have been the end of it . |
| 23 | The Session would not agree to the time ; and that seems to have been the end of it . |
| 24 | If Carson had been predictably agreeable and obviously interested she would have accepted the lift and that , apart perhaps from the promise of a follow-up lunch some time , would have been the end of it . |
| 25 | That would not have been the end of it , but it would have put off the worst , and Tutilo seldom looks beyond the day . |
| 26 | That should have been the end of it but it most certainly was not . |
| 27 | If he had said , ‘ You need me , ’ then that would have been the end for him . |
| 28 | She watched her mother and daughter talking together and felt a deep hurt , as if she had somehow been the cause of it all . |
| 29 | It would also be a major knock-back for the scum because , without a doubt , he 's been the difference for them scoring vital goals and setting up others . |
| 30 | Madame had you see known him in his alcoholic days , when indeed such calm must often have been the prelude to him lurching into an argument , or falling heavily from his stool . |