Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [noun] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am darkness itself . |
| 2 | To be sure you are Lucifer himself in the shape of my master or you could not use me thus , and I beg you 'll send me out of my way to my poor parents . |
| 3 | You are Satan itself |
| 4 | You 're not a liar , you 're truth itself . |
| 5 | ‘ To be absolutely honest , even if you were Aphrodite herself , I would n't let you come near me . ’ |
| 6 | If you do , I can assure you we shall be in your debt and we shall play for you as though you were Mahler himself . ’ |
| 7 | She was charm itself . |
| 8 | Bertha , of course , never went anywhere , but Rabbi Moishe sometimes wished his daughter-in-law had a little more — humanity ? no , no , he must n't judge — a little more inclination to mix with the other married women ; he respected his daughter-in-law , she was holiness itself , as frum as an angel , and as for housekeeping . |
| 9 | What do such men or women know ( or care ) about agriculture , forestry , field sports , immigration ( for they are immigrants themselves ) ? |
| 10 | Well they 're investment themselves , if you take it off them in tax then |
| 11 | Nobody mentioned that they were puppets themselves . |
| 12 | It might be doubted whether Ragnvald 's sons , who were first put forward as Cnut 's opponents at Holy River long ago , would have been sufficiently well known in England for the Chronicle entry to be readily intelligible , but this is not certain , and an annalist naming leaders of large Swedish forces may have thought it obvious that they were Swedes themselves . |
| 13 | The primitive sound of it stirred something deep inside me as though it were Pan himself , not some Indian labourer , playing those haunting notes on that rude instrument . |
| 14 | It 's simplicity itself to operate and unlike gas , oil or solid fuel installations , Total Heating with Central Control causes the minimum of fuss and mess when it 's installed . |
| 15 | It 's Prue herself who finds the crystal . |
| 16 | It 's space itself that is expanding . |
| 17 | It 's time itself that is affected . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's Wilder himself who has got under her skin , ’ Silas commented drily . |
| 19 | It is Morrissey himself who is being warped , twisted and cheated by the media . |
| 20 | ( n contrast both to the genetically based view of literary history which tends to ignore questions of form , and to other formally-biased approaches which tend to ignore history , the Russian Formalist view is that it is history itself which allows the specificity of literature to be established . |
| 21 | ‘ It is life itself we must battle to preserve , ’ said Mrs Thatcher in her speech to the United Nations in New York . |
| 22 | It is humanity itself which must establish that which it wants to be right , and that which it wants to be wrong . |
| 23 | This may sound complicated , but rest assured , that it is simplicity itself . |
| 24 | Moreover , once the precise mathematical form of f(U) has been unearthed by econometric testing , it is simplicity itself to arrive at an estimate of U * ; — one has merely to evaluate the root of . |
| 25 | Therefore , in history it is not nature and technology which makes human society but it is man himself , who in terms of his already existing ideas and values , makes his own history , as he encounters nature and the problems it poses . |
| 26 | And to Maijers and other custodians of the pyramid of authority , it is Kanter herself who has the clearest response . |
| 27 | It is transcendence itself . |
| 28 | It is sociology itself ( Durkheim 1895 ) . |
| 29 | This time , it is God himself who descends from his empyrea . |
| 30 | Second , it is God himself who not only speaks but also hears that ‘ No ’ in the person of the one man who does not deserve to hear it , the righteous one who stands in the place of the unrighteous . |