Example sentences of "he [prep] be the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All I can do now is praise the NME for finally showing him to be the xenophobic shit that he really is . |
| 2 | In what seemed to him to be the far distance he could see Mariana and the President climbing up the meadow to meet him . |
| 3 | I think you 'll find he wants him to be the best player in Scotland and NOT England |
| 4 | And the only Church adviser with a constitutional right to speak thought that he would be wrong to tell the Queen the name of the person whom his instincts told him to be the right person . |
| 5 | John Hinde , boss of the Manchester store , said : ‘ Nobody expected him to be the real thing . ’ |
| 6 | Later , the College permitted him to be the veterinary examiner for the East India Company . |