Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv prt] [prep] [be] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It reminded me of when I was a teacher and watched one of my pupils , Dan Waterman , grow up to be a fireman . |
| 2 | Byrd and Philippe de Monte ; Byrd and Taverner ; Byrd and keyboard composers of Redford 's generation ; Byrd and Tallis ; Byrd and Parsons : Byrd research has brought these and many other connections to light , and they cry out to be the stuff of records called ‘ Byrd and his contemporaries ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ I wear a White is Beautiful badge and get run in for being a racist … ’ |
| 4 | Well I 'd only say that initially erm because then what you end up with is a sort of lucky dip which every now and then somebody will remember the bag of science tricks that somebody 's taught them and dip into . |
| 5 | Well I 'd only say that initially erm because then what you end up with is a sort of lucky dip which every now and then somebody will remember the bag of science tricks that somebody 's taught them and dip into . |
| 6 | While Bourdieu 's self-deprecatory claims to priesthood and orthodoxy turn out to be a cover for a very avant-garde sociology of culture . |
| 7 | Cable & Wireless , whose Mercury subsidiary yesterday heralded a phone war with the introduction of a new service for London , dipped 3p to 848p over fears that the new project might in fact turn out to be a drain on profits . |
| 8 | They did n't , however , turn out to be the future of music , as predicted . |
| 9 | But there comes a point at which audio-visual presentations take over from being an aid to the speaker and become an end in themselves . |
| 10 | I do n't want to be one of the best in the world , I want to be the best in the world , and everyone I come up against is a stepping stone to me getting over that bridge . |
| 11 | Come back to being a vet . |