Example sentences of "[adv] be [noun] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only is Windows itself configurable , but most of the applications that we use under Windows can also be tailored to your own tastes . |
| 2 | One did not have to attend school meals with the boys over the week-end if one was off duty ; and the only master who might have noticed I had been away was Méli himself , but as it happened he 'd been in Athens . |
| 3 | She has always been kindness itself to me , but I have a feeling in my bones that she would not regard me as a wholly reliable supporter . |
| 4 | They had once been commuters themselves but they had waited so long for trains they had taken to living permanently in the tunnels , skulking in the darkness by day and emerging late at night to devour unwary travellers . |
| 5 | All we can do now is help ourselves . ’ |
| 6 | All she had done the night before was make herself a sugar sandwich . |
| 7 | Peter : What he 's done today is buy himself a little time , his troubles are n't over , Mrs Thatcher still casts her shadow over this conference he still has problems inside and outside the cabinet but he has bought some time . |
| 8 | Here was France herself , mutilated but undaunted . |
| 9 | It seemed to come from another world of reference , an older , ordinary world , of platitude and cliché , of pattern and familiar family ties , a world that she had thought they had never entered , for many good reasons never entered : and now here was Charles himself , invoking its terms , as though it had been there always , as though they had always inhabited its domain . |
| 10 | Although he 's only the second son and will never be king himself , he 's still an important man and very popular , I hear , with many Ruritanians . |