Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [noun] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Determined to let Rune 's volatile lover know the truth — that , far from being lovers themselves , she and Rune were nothing more than strangers linked by a common family crisis — she began firmly , ‘ Look , Lotta — there 's something you should know . |
| 2 | The arbiter of taste in this instance has to be parents themselves , and much can be done to avoid unhappy experiences from the outset by determining preferences and approaches to the care of your child when your childminding arrangement begins . |
| 3 | This is not a very convincing solution , since most readers do n't feel that this a dramatic monologue , and take the ‘ I ’ of the poem to be Wordsworth himself . |
| 4 | Feuerbach 's position was more consistent : he was a philosopher who did not believe in God but was on his own admission passionately concerned with religion and theology , whose real object he held to be man himself . |
| 5 | ‘ We all know he wants to be King himself . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I think a lot of supporters look for that because they all want to be leaders themselves — they want to be the boss , they do n't want to be the tea-boy . ’ |
| 7 | In other words he wished to be God himself , and not a creature . |
| 8 | Both Kubla and the Abyssinian maid are human creations so in a sense they are God — but Coleridge 's hubris in wanting to be God himself is doomed to failure . |