Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [pers pn] be the [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | But I 'm getting ahead of myself , when all I really want to teach you is the full history of such a product . |
| 2 | He admitted : ‘ Seve and I are different personalities but we do have one thing in common — we want to prove we are the best . |
| 3 | I mean listen I 'm the first person to talk in in support of body piercing I look I have parts of my body pierced I like it but I do n't think standing around the street corners sort of revealing it is a nice thing to do . |
| 4 | I do know she was the subtlest of nags . |
| 5 | ‘ Do n't know about that , but I do know it 's the only good look I 'm going to get for months so I 'm making the most of it . ’ |
| 6 | The most powerful ‘ lessons in wizardry ’ are those taken for the learning of shamanic powers , and in the Piaroa theory of knowledge , men who do undergo them are the best hunters in Piaroaland , even if they rarely hunt ( Overing 1988 ) . |
| 7 | Peter Black , whose Daily Mail colleague Shaun Usher had voiced reservations , wrote , ‘ Raymond Allen 's Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em is the best visual comedy I 've ever seen on TV . |
| 8 | Erm , there is a very small chance that he 's going to say , all the time that I was on , on top of Everest , er , I was thinking about you , because I 've heard you 're the best thing since sliced wholemeal bread , I have three thousand people that I want to put through a programme in the next six weeks . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've said it 's the wrong time of the year for that . |
| 10 | A ride with the soldiers who 've shown they 're the best badger bunker builders in Britain . |
| 11 | They 've discovered we 're the oldest family in the whole county , going back a long way ! |
| 12 | ‘ You have to remember they are the current league champions and had been training three nights a week . |
| 13 | Everything I have told you is the absolute truth . |
| 14 | We have to assume it 's the same as the nearest observation , so erm it can be misleading just to take the surface observation , surface instrumentation readings , erm but erm we have to be able to interpolate , and this is the experience of the forecaster comes in , to say what is in the gaps . |
| 15 | Andrew relishes the challenge : ‘ You have to believe you are the best in your role in the country and I know Stuart shares that view . |
| 16 | ‘ I ca n't believe what 's happened today , but I have to say it was the best 45 minutes I 've had since coming back , ’ he smiled . |
| 17 | ‘ Well , ’ he drawled , ‘ you have to admit it 's the perfect camouflage for someone who 's not mature enough to handle the commitment of a long-term relationship . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ With something like this you have to feel it 's the right moment for you to talk about it . |