Example sentences of "[pers pn] be that you be " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ After all you 've done in the past for Rosemary and me , and are still doing , ’ he went on , ‘ I got to thinking yesterday that I could have been a sight more energetic in letting you know how delighted I am that you 're going to marry my cousin . |
2 | The main thoughts that worried you were that you were either having a heart attack or that you 'd pass out in front of your colleagues … . |
3 | What I 'm saying to you is that you are |
4 | ‘ One of the things I like about you is that you 're so ridiculous . ’ |
5 | ‘ Before she left , the PM told me how pleased she was that you were so frank . |
6 | Khan that before this meeting ‘ all we knew about you was that you were a member of certain pacts — even though paper pacts — and we were doubtful and cautious about you ’ . |
7 | Could it be that you are just a little bit jealous of The Great White North — a society , after all , rather less divisive and certainly more prosperous than decaying , decadent Britain ? |
8 | Or could it be that you are deft and capable in practical ways ( needed by a care assistant in social service , or as a nursing aide ) ? |
9 | Or could it be that you are too frightened to own up to your own emotional weaknesses ? ’ |
10 | Or could it be that you were the first rebel in the household and that Suzie 's only following your example ? ’ |
11 | Well plus plus the fact that erm it 's not that you have n't got one , or it 's not that we 'd need you to drive it 's that you 're denying us the privilege of being able to send you . |
12 | You must describe to yourself precisely what behaviour it is that you are going to observe . |
13 | Each causes you to observe what it is that you are trying to remember . |
14 | " The important thing is to know what it is that you are dying for " , noted Nizan in 1935 . |
15 | ‘ It is that you are British . |
16 | The , the minute , the note last time said a pool of cand , they , they will be told that a pool of possible candidat candidates will be contacted to attend for final interview once it 's decided to go ahead with the new appointment , so you could the thr the the three , or whatever it is that you are not putting forward , that their , that our interest in them has ceased |
17 | Perhaps most importantly , try and determine yourself why it is that you 're not sleeping . |
18 | Okay what I ask you to do as with being assertive , first of all be clear about what it is that you 're going to try and do , be clear about what it is and what the situation is , explain it to the partner and then try it and let's see how it doing . |
19 | What you actually do is erm list what it is that you 're gon na critically evaluate . |
20 | What he 's , I bet what he does n't like about it is that you 're not running back to him saying look Simon come back to me I need you and it |
21 | It 's extremely unwise to quote your Chairman of Committee , if the Chairman of the committee actually A has n't been informed that he 's being quoted , or B has not actually agreed with what it is that you 're quoting . |
22 | Anyway , it was part of your task to appear interested in a woman who , if not boring , was lonely and — ’ she gave a high-pitched mirthless laugh — ‘ shall we say , slightly unbalanced — so as to find out … well , whatever it was that you were enquiring into . |
23 | Immediately you should find this loud noise has interrupted your train of thought , often enough to make you forget what it was that you were thinking about . |
24 | Wh what I mean to say is I could n't in advance guess which field it was that you were going to want at any particular moment . |
25 | What does concern me is that you 're both very young . |
26 | ‘ What surprises me is that you 're aware of it . |
27 | • What your intense desire for Jim tells me is that you are a highly sexual person : one who has managed to heal herself after a difficult marriage and who 's now ready for a physical relationship . |
28 | What you are telling me is that you are the kind of person who needs emotional space , and if someone tries to occupy that space all the time , then you do n't want to know . |
29 | Thank you all for coming , I know that it 's , it just shows how interested some of us are that you are coming in on such a nice day as this to hear Doreen Griffiths ’ The Cinderella Army ’ or the Land Army , and I must say just reading these bits up here now , I 've got lots of questions I want to ask her when she 's finished , so we 'll let her tell |