Example sentences of "be [pers pn] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | What are you me for . |
2 | Were they anything like the apes that live today ? |
3 | And not in a million quintillion millenia is she anything like me . ’ |
4 | The gardener of the family is the Queen Mother , whose gardens at her Scottish hideaways , the Castle of Mey and Birkhall , are stunning , and it is she who over the years has made them so . |
5 | It 's he who from time to time begins talks with the observation that a referee 's parentage is often questioned . |
6 | ‘ Is it nothing in your eyes never to bring accusation against anyone ? |
7 | Is it something about the case ? ’ |
8 | Is it something about Shelley ? … |
9 | Surprising coincidences happen ( or is it something in the knitting air ? ) . |
10 | In an attempt to find out , society members gathered at her college to remember their heroine … but is it something in the Somerville air that makes good crime writers ? |
11 | It 's only about twenty five pound , is it something like |
12 | Is it her with the glasses ? |
13 | Is it one at which they will simply be given information by the teacher in role ? |
14 | ‘ You 've read it , I find , ’ says Miss Harriot Anderson ; ‘ Pray , sir , is it anything like Sir Charles Grandison ? ’ |
15 | ‘ Well , and is it you with all the hoof-prints up and down his back , master lawyer ? |
16 | Nor was he anything of a theorist , and hardly troubled to read much of the new wave of bother-headed' critics , as he called them , spawned by the 1960s . |
17 | Was he someone like himself ? |
18 | It was he who after a particularly violent disagreement , suggested that Joan should be invited to pay them another visit — though he referred to her as the lady Anne , as had been agreed . |
19 | It was he who in 1913 had told the Military Governor of Lille , General Lebas , that he would have ‘ nothing to do ’ with fortified strongholds . |
20 | Was it her on the phone ? |
21 | WAS IT SOMETHING ABOUT MY REGISTRATION ? |
22 | Or was it something like , you know , the Conservative Party ? |
23 | That 's right yeah but I mean they 've got some really , sort of you know , like those things , what have you said tonight that you like , those that jar of stuff , was it something in rum pineapple ? |