Example sentences of "be [conj] [pron] [verb] [pron] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | First impressions are that he offered them a recipe of component parts from many different guitars and the result is a sort of nouvelle cuisine which leaves this weary plucker scratching his head . |
| 2 | I do n't expect the heartbeat award scheme to suffer , I will be in touch with Matthew fairly closely to ensure that , but I think the position of the labour group is that we can not support these recommendations as they are but we offer you a compromise solution . |
| 3 | Ms Armstrong considers Mr Fallon to be sexist : the reason appears to be that he called her a woman . |
| 4 | But one thing about our Asian men is that they think it a matter of pride that their women must not go out to work . |
| 5 | The only trouble is that it gives me an American accent . |
| 6 | ‘ All I know is that it cost me a lot of money to learn . ’ |
| 7 | Nor am I an angel , exactly , you will find that out for yourself , that is if you give me a chance . |
| 8 | The only way people will trust me is if I give them a signed piece of paper with my address on . ’ |
| 9 | in another few weeks hard work and you 'll feel very What I 'll do is if I give you a note for a further two months , and we can Is your job safe ? |
| 10 | It 's because you like him a little too much — or , to be honest , you 're drawn to him a little too fiercely . |
| 11 | Er at the last conference er both Kerry and myself buttonholed him er and proposed that we er push it a bit further and er the re upshot of that was that we wrote him a much more detailed letter er on whatever date it was , er first of November ninety three , and we 've now had a er a reply er to that er giving us carte blanche to quote him er w with er a number of er quotations which we 'd drafted and put into his mouth , so er a all the quotations that we 've asked him to approve we can use . |
| 12 | The only difference her success made was that she thought her an incompetent fool who was lucky enough to make a bit of money . ’ |
| 13 | That , I believe , was because we moved him a bit upmarket in his packaging , and gave him more thriller-style covers . |