Example sentences of "what [pron] be [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know what I am to him . |
| 2 | I hate to think how much money I have paid over to Anglia Gas if I 'd known what I was into I could have walked into that house then and I could , while I had all that money before I gave any away I could have said , right , I 'm going to have to spend that , that , that , that and that and I would have done it and it would have I would 've been alright because I would n't have had things going wrong ! |
| 3 | I saw what she was — what she was to me — not what she seemed or would have appeared to be in a photograph or common portrait . |
| 4 | It is difficult to set down what she was to me . |
| 5 | The change from what she was to what she has become is a vast one . |
| 6 | He 's more frightened of you than what you are of him , actually . |
| 7 | Bless you , my own darling wife , for being what you are to me — just everything . |
| 8 | What you 're in your group , if within each group you could elect between you one , a manager and two , an observer . |
| 9 | What you be without us , they chorused . |
| 10 | Doubts as to even the possible reality of such a law , arising from an excessively empiricist conception of the possibilities of being , prove unreasonable in the light of the establishable fact that both the every day world in which we live , and we ourselves , are only appearances of a realm of things in themselves whose true nature is hidden from us. for this opens the possibility that what we are in ourselves is essentially rational beings , belonging to a society of rational beings , while what we are as appearances is sensory beings . |
| 11 | Ten of his ‘ Wares crept over the ramparts in the night and before we knew what we were at they were holding swords to our throats as we sat at our wine . |
| 12 | After 10 tumultous years of substantial achievement and disastrous mistakes , the Sandinistas control the army , the unions , the youth movements , much of the media and the money — what there is of it . |
| 13 | After 10 tumultous years of substantial achievement and disastrous mistakes , the Sandinistas control the army , the unions , the youth movements , much of the media and the money — what there is of it . |
| 14 | What there is of it . |
| 15 | They relate what there is to what , in the authors ' views , there ought to be . |
| 16 | The question is what there is about what we learnt when we learnt the rule for + 2 which makes the continuation 20,002 , 20,004 , 20,006 objectively correct , and 20,004 , 20,008 , 20,012 objectively incorrect . |
| 17 | For no matter how much it is objected that it can not be stated definitely from these considerations just what the thing is like according to its nature , but only what it is like in respect to one thing or to another , it may still be said what there is in it which makes it appear to be this in respect to one thing and that in respect to another ; and consequently it may be said both to be one thing according to its nature and to be this or that in respect to other things . |
| 18 | Look what there is against her . ’ |
| 19 | Factionalism was rife , and the British Situationists — what there were of them — did their best to recruit amongst the underground-oriented malcontents despairing of the prospects of that movement . |
| 20 | The small fellow climbed from the rucksack and stretched what there was of himself to stretch . |
| 21 | The village , what there was of it , also seemed deserted . |
| 22 | What there was of it was represented in Parliament by Labour MP Robert Maxwell . |
| 23 | I was just working out what there was in it . |
| 24 | Bet 's got to fill out who she 's talking to and what they are to her |
| 25 | Two occasions in the book about his partisans quietly illustrate what he is for his readers in this respect . |
| 26 | A good father was what he was beyond everything . |
| 27 | That 's what he was in it for . |
| 28 | This element of the second stanza creates a sensation that Tithonus now refers to himself as a completely different man to what he was in his youth as it was such a long time ago . |
| 29 | He does not , however , retract his proposal that the precepts of the imagist manifesto are still the best rules of thumb for ‘ the neophyte ’ , the beginner in his ‘ prentice-work ; and for what it is worth my own experience in the workshop certainly bears that out . |
| 30 | This naturally prompts the question what it is for one purely particular object to stand for another . |