Example sentences of "be [verb] [pers pn] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I were to tell you that this record puts a dayglo platform DM so far up the mule 's rectum that its entrails squish through its clenched teeth , I do n't think that I could be justly accused of exaggeration . |
| 2 | Partly it is to give you that extra pace which the active , probing , investigating story requires . |
| 3 | And what Ms Meckler and her designer , Dermot Hayes , have inventively done is to remind us that these characters are like people picknicking on the edge of Vesuvius . |
| 4 | ‘ A great part of the Bible is to show us that all creatures are in God 's hand , and that He will either make our afflictions work together for good , or remove them . |
| 5 | My Higher Self was warning me that this project , though attractive , would take me in the wrong direction , and would be a costly mistake . |
| 6 | Chaplin was telling me that such people don ’ t qualify for medals or monuments , unlike those who fight and kill or wound , or are killed or wounded . |