Example sentences of "be what i [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had been what I saw as a stop-gap anchor-man for Report , the teatime news programme , for less than eighteen months . |
| 2 | ‘ That 's what I thought at the time , anyway , ’ said William , ‘ but I think now it must have been Barry Moxton . |
| 3 | It had come out and I 'd said it 's what I felt at the minute . |
| 4 | Yeah I was sure that 's what our team wrote down cos that 's what I wrote on the sheet |
| 5 | Here 's what I wrote in the obituary I did for him in The Guardian : |
| 6 | Oh that 's what I got in the shop . |
| 7 | That 's what I meant about the meta-metal , if you took it back to metal you could n't make up a page like your upper and lower case with a big R , unless you spent three years chiselling and fitting the thing , but somehow it looks as if it ought to have been possible to have done it in metal because that 's where it took its springboard from . |
| 8 | That 's what I say to a lot of people today , they moan about dockers but they 're only fighting for their rights . |
| 9 | Erm leave that one cos that 's what I bought as a spare . |
| 10 | ‘ That 's what I suspected at the time , but your damned gratitude is the last thing I want , Maria . ’ |
| 11 | That 's what I think of the house . |
| 12 | It 's what I do for a living . |
| 13 | That 's what I did with a cup of tea this morning did n't I ? |
| 14 | There were no school sports and no athletics , just football , and that is what I played for the rest of the time I was there . |
| 15 | I think the key is what I do to the hair . |
| 16 | This is what I do for a living and this is what I enjoy doing . |
| 17 | Ian , a 32-year-old salesman , says : ‘ I made a conscious decision to drink low-alcohol lager because entertaining , and therefore drinking , is what I do for a living . |
| 18 | The hay rick well it was That was what I speak about a a a cole Tramp cole where the hay r Hay was the tramp cole . |