Example sentences of "[pers pn] be " in BNC.
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| 31 | Be Young , Be Foolish But Be Happy was a smash , her great new single , You To Me Are Everything is bounding up the charts and her new album , Sonia looks set to do the same . |
| 32 | ‘ The rumours of a reconciliation between James and me are absolute balls , ’ Becky said . |
| 33 | The only people who can hurt or compliment me are my friends |
| 34 | A year or two later , expanding on her analysis , Iris Murdoch dubbed the journalistic novel ‘ loose and cheerful ’ , adding gaily that she was inclined to start writing a novel in the hope that ‘ a lot of people who are not me are going to come into existence in some wonderful way ’ — though frustrated , sometimes , by the prevailing theoretical power of her own philosophical mind . |
| 35 | Lloyd C. Winter , an established American coach , lends Kane 's theory some credence : ‘ As a class , the Black athletes who have trained under me are far ahead of whites in that one factor — relaxation under pressure ’ ( Kane , 1971 , p.76 ) . |
| 36 | I myself feel that the cat and the dog who live in the same house with me are fellow members of my family circle , closer related to me socially than the human neighbour next door whom I know only by sight and name , and infinitely closer than some odd Brazilian or Melanesian , with whom my only connection is that we are fellow men . |
| 37 | Well , I think that a few words from me are called for , as you say . ’ |
| 38 | The kind of satisfaction which can be anxiety-free is that in which my own creative powers and understanding of the world around me are at a maximum and this is satisfaction which the individual can only achieve as part of a community of persons directed at these ends . |
| 39 | But how can I know what the categorical imperatives binding on me are ? |
| 40 | If I am dependent on you ( subordinate-boss ) , then your perceptions of me are more distorted , and vice versa . |
| 41 | For example , the stressed housewife may take rights 3 and 7 and decide that : ‘ I have the right to suggest to my elderly mother-in-law that she enquire about the possibility of a home-help , as the demands she is making on me are wearing me out ’ . |
| 42 | You see , a lot of the clichés about me are true and for real , it 's just in the end you can get tired talking about the same things . ’ |
| 43 | Dolores O'Riordan and three other blokes and me are sitting in a van that 's parked in a yard behind Charlie 's Bar where later on The Cranberries will bring tears to the eyes of grown men and ensure that all present can say ‘ yes ’ when asked if their weekend was happy and filled with nice things . |
| 44 | My sister and me are very close , so this woman gave me a giro to go to my sister 's — they took me to the station and put me on the train . |
| 45 | There is an equally strong academic and literary tradition which assumes the opposite ; in Flaubert 's words : " It is like body and soul : form and content to me are one . |
| 46 | The modes of learning that helped me are those that I now use with my pupils . |
| 47 | A : excuse me are you busy B : no not at all A : I wondered if I could have a word with you |
| 48 | The grass and reeds around me are flattened under the sudden , overnight fall of snow . |
| 49 | I keep in touch with some people who are still inside — most of the people that were in with me are still there . |
| 50 | With the threat of relegation looming again , the loss of the ground , and the millstone around my neck of a team of asthmatic pine martens with the collective brain power of a kiwi fruit , the pressures on me are building to a frightening pitch . |
| 51 | Expressions such as I like it and It pleases me are ‘ equivalent ’ only in theory . |
| 52 | And er he went up and examined the wife and he come down stairs and he said to me Are you the husband ? |
| 53 | Because , tomorrow … tomorrow , head , you and me are leaving . |
| 54 | It turns out that half the words she 's been teaching me are all wrong . |
| 55 | The ‘ grounds ’ that most interest me are about 6in beneath those once trod by the aristocrats , so I 'm sure the snobbish doctor 's ghost will tolerate my company for an afternoon . |
| 56 | I know his feelings towards me are genuine and he wants me and my children as part of his life . |
| 57 | The things they like about me are my gai-jin attitudes , and they laugh at a lot of my conclusions , I 'm sure — not to my face , but among themselves . |
| 58 | The rounds you sent me are all standard N.A.T.O . |
| 59 | Some people , it seems to me are never satisfied . |
| 60 | The hundred books on the table in front of me are so many tongs that pinch out the nerve of independent thought … one can not go one 's own way independently enough " ; and , from 1868 , a sardonic dismissal of " the philologists of our time " for " their joy at capturing worms and their indifference to the true problems , the urgent problems of life " . |