Example sentences of "what [pers pn] 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 | Bet 's got to fill out who she 's talking to and what they are to her |
| 13 | Two occasions in the book about his partisans quietly illustrate what he is for his readers in this respect . |
| 14 | A good father was what he was beyond everything . |
| 15 | That 's what he was in it for . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | This naturally prompts the question what it is for one purely particular object to stand for another . |
| 19 | It 's been very hard for years , and now , to be back here , you do n't know what it is for me . |
| 20 | Compare , ‘ One learns what it is for something to be absent through things being absent ’ ; and , ‘ One learns what it is for something to be absent through noticing the absence of things ’ . |
| 21 | Compare , ‘ One learns what it is for something to be absent through things being absent ’ ; and , ‘ One learns what it is for something to be absent through noticing the absence of things ’ . |
| 22 | He starts by remarking that scientists and ( at that time ; he was writing in the 1950s ) philosophers usually take science as the understanding of an independent reality , with the presumptions that they know what it is for something to be ‘ real ’ and for someone to ‘ understand ’ it . |
| 23 | And from this account of empirical meaning there naturally arises an account of what it is for someone to understand a statement , or to know its meaning : |
| 24 | Why does the separation of the mental from the physical make it impossible to show that we understand what it is for there to be other minds than our own , given the separation of the mental from the physical ? |
| 25 | For instance , what it is for there to be a red rose in this darkened room is for it to be the case that if I were to turn the light on , I would make a certain observation , and if I were then to move to another place , I would make an observation rather different , and if you were to come in , you would observe such and such , and so on . |
| 26 | Nor is it necessary to know any of x 's relational properties in order to understand what it is for it to be round-shaped or metal . |
| 27 | Other than that , I ca n't see what it is about her that is so dreadful suddenly , but the tone of disappointment and warning in my mother 's voice does get through to me . |
| 28 | talk about , I do n't know what it is about her I do n't like her , very often I sort of she , to me she 's sarcastic , the way , the way she 's talking to you there 's sarcasm there all the time , you know , like |
| 29 | Can you say what it is about them that threatens you ? |
| 30 | So it is just as important to know what it is about your organisation that customers value so that you can promote it fully . |