Example sentences of "that [pron] be [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But — do n't you realise that nothing is any good unless it is shared ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ No one knows that I am that — rich and of good family , I mean . ’ |
| 3 | Often I find that I am many hundreds of metres behind the party when I escape from the trance of pattern-watching and childhood recall . |
| 4 | One more time my skin warms against his and reminds me that I am this person , not generic , wife of nothing . |
| 5 | ‘ Your tone would seem to imply that I am some sort of Bluebeard who keeps her incarcerated . |
| 6 | According to the last good book I read , this means that I am half way through my time travel , my travel through time . |
| 7 | Erm , that sounds very persuasive to all of us nowadays and I fully believe it , that part of what makes me me is in fact er the fact that I 'm this shape and this size |
| 8 | Secondly Chairman I would like to draw the Councillors ' attention to the fact that I 'm this years representative on the South East Waste Regulation Advisory Committee and we have indeed got in hand a project which is to look at the whole of the recycling and the priorities for the South East region and I would imagine that by the time our officers have reported back to this Authority that they will have an advantage of having access to that report . |
| 9 | ‘ Having it spread around the Mediterranean that I 'm another of Nathan Bryce 's bimbos was not part of the deal . |
| 10 | You 've got this superior idea that I 'm some sort of half-wit from the back of beyond who has n't the vaguest notion of what happens in the big , bad world . |
| 11 | It 's weird because writing is a pretty spontaneous thing for me , but people seem to imagine after hearing the album that I 'm some real craftsman or pop musicologist or something . |
| 12 | You see , if you like me then you 'll think that I 'm some sort of brain surgeon , and if you hate me then you 'll think I 'm shit … the truth is in the middle . |
| 13 | Why would you suppose that I 'm some kind of insomniac ? ’ |
| 14 | I felt , wretchedly , that I was such a moral coward , such a sickening liar , that making a promise I knew I had no intention whatever of keeping was hardly any worse than what I had already done . |
| 15 | But I very soon found that I was much more like the companionable dog ! |
| 16 | As he said to us 42 years later , ‘ I was interested in some kind of sense , that I descended from Aaron , that I was some kind of high priest . |
| 17 | This afternoon — I arrived in Salisbury at around three thirty — when I entered my address in her register as ‘ Darlington Hall ’ , I could see her look at me with some trepidation , assuming no doubt that I was some gentleman used to such places as the Ritz or the Dorchester and that I would storm out of her guest house on being shown my room . |
| 18 | Mind you , he was also daunted by the fact that I was some years his senior . |
| 19 | ‘ How I wish that I were that dog ! ’ |
| 20 | Now the other reason why of course you wo n't perhaps erm drive naturally is because of this little bit of tension at the fact that who 's this person sitting here looking at what I 'm doing ? and it it 's putting me off . |
| 21 | It 's not that she 's much of a hausfrau or hoover-wielder . |
| 22 | Mr Blair-Gould said : ‘ The prosecution clearly suggest … that she is some kind of dreadful rebel on a crusade against censorship . ’ |
| 23 | And then felt , suddenly , that she was all the things Nick had said . |
| 24 | She was introduced to the novelist Mr Henry James , and took tea with him at his home , Lamb House , in Rye , and he thought that she was all the beautiful American girls he had written about rolled into one ! |
| 25 | The weight of the water forced Golden Girl down , as Trent had planned , so that she was little more than awash . |
| 26 | It was all right for Piers : he had played with her for the hell of it , while making no bones about telling her that she was little more than a convenient body . |
| 27 | ‘ She got on what I think was the wrong ride , and the tough part is that she was such a willing victim . |
| 28 | The fact that she was such an eccentric character meant that only those with strong personalities survived . |
| 29 | Not for the first time , I was thankful that she was such a good barrister . |
| 30 | Although tradition has assumed that she was some if not all of those things , we have no way of knowing . |