Example sentences of "be what [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " You 're what they call a litter bug . " |
| 2 | No no put them back in there darling , they 're what we got at the pictures |
| 3 | Now they 're what we have today , the motorways you know . |
| 4 | And they 're what we call bulk finds . |
| 5 | Cos they 're what we call complex conjugals . |
| 6 | You 're what we want , you work hard at school , and the child comes back and they say , had a test today , how did you get on ? |
| 7 | Looks , money , a penchant for power and a great wardrobe — they 're what it takes to make it to the top . |
| 8 | ‘ His books are the product of a fictional imagination , they 're what I call ‘ involuntary fiction ’ . |
| 9 | Frithrah , you 're what I call a Chief Rabbit ! " |
| 10 | If they 're what I think they are , we can polish off the Dispersionists for good . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ They 're what you get in the sky when the sun shines and it 's been raining … |
| 12 | So they 're what you call elusive , are n't they ? |
| 13 | Our school system has its own inner logic which may not always be what we wish or proclaim , and the same goes for our methodologies . |
| 14 | And so we took a piece off and had it analysed , we have a little laboratory which we use to analyse things like that , and it turned out to be what we expected , the most common colour of medieval furniture was red . |
| 15 | And I said , well , you know , overall it 's gon na be what we said , you know I said , we I 've tried to meet your targets , I said , but I 've had to increase some up fart higher than others you know . |
| 16 | ‘ I suppose the British equivalent would be what we call the Stockbroker Belt , ’ she mused , ‘ although some of those have fared pretty badly recently . |
| 17 | Over-provision has a sort of knock-on effect that er whatever we provide this time , we shall be asked to provide at the next revision of the structure plan and so if we can keep some land back this time , then that might be what we offer next time , we have to roll forward the structure plan . |
| 18 | It would have done but he , he used to be what we called a proper chain smoker , oh he must have smoked hundreds of Woodbines in a week , must have been hundreds , that was his life . |
| 19 | I there is a worry of course , that , er County Farms if we happen to end up in three unitary authorities , could be said to be not a core activity of those three new authorities , especially the core of an urban one , and it may be that if we 're not careful the County Farm estate can end up in the hands of the residuary body for sale , and I think what we 're looking , asking Mr to do , is to find ways of , of moving it forward , without ha falling into that net , which may not be what we want . |
| 20 | The room looked to be what they had thought ; a store or perhaps a fuelhouse which might be left unattended for most of the time . |
| 21 | She said : it must be what they told us about . |
| 22 | This must be what they call the fog of war . ’ |
| 23 | And you 'll be what they call educated . |
| 24 | And they used to er have er a film Of course they used to be silent films and then er er had er and there used to be what they call interval . |
| 25 | Well the cr the jib went up and then it came down like that , well that swan neck on the cr that used to be what they call level oven , cos as y as you lift your crane out , so this part would come up . |
| 26 | However well-intentioned an Arnold or an Attlee or a Keynes or a Webb I suspect that the outcome can hardly be what they envisaged . |
| 27 | This may not , of course , be what they decide ! |
| 28 | He said that he thought the proposal could well be what they wanted and promised a definite decision within two days . |
| 29 | But the Rhino at least has friends , although they might not always be what they seem . |
| 30 | Even these cuts may not be what they seem . |