Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] the good " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | ‘ I am standing to win because I believe I am the best candidate to lead the Labour Party to victory next time but also because it is imperative that we have a contest in which a proper debate can take place , ’ he added . |
| 3 | I , La Carlotta , I am the best opera singer in Paris . |
| 4 | She heard them clinking , and she thought : ‘ I 'm here in these lovely gardens because I am the Best Child in the World . ’ |
| 5 | Campos , who last year won the Three-Quarter Ton Cup in the Farr-designed Lone , would like to be skipper , but is realistic : ‘ I will be the skipper if I feel I am the best . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ But the King says I am the best horseman in his army . |
| 7 | ‘ I am the good shepherd , ’ he replied , ‘ not the hireling . |
| 8 | Gould : I 'm the best candidate to lead party to victory |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm the best blade in Europe , I believe . ’ |
| 10 | I 'm the best thing in your life |
| 11 | ( I 'm the best thing in your life ) |
| 12 | about I 'm the best thing in your life But |
| 13 | Lewis said : ‘ By beating Foreman I can prove again I 'm the best heavyweight , but I want to box people who 'll give me a good workout — unlike Bowe I never avoid anybody . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ It 's not a question of whether I feel I 'm the best man for the job . |
| 15 | And then there 's this technician or something here and they ask me to breathe in helium from a mask and make me repeat some of the things gorilla man said on the video so I feel like I 'm becoming him they 're trying to make me him ; I do n't think I sound the same as the guy on the brain-snuff video but fuck knows what they think there are too many to know what the fuck they think ; loads of them , officers from all over the fucking place with different accents , London , Midlands , Welsh , Scottish , elsewhere , God knows , it 's not just Flavell and McDunn though I still see them now and again especially McDunn who looks at me kind of weird most of the time like he ca n't really believe it was me did all these things and I get this bizarre feeling that he thinks I 'm kind of pathetic I mean that in a grudging , still-determined-to-bust-the-fucker way he actually has more respect for gorilla man than he does for me because I 've just gone to pieces under the questions and the things they put in my head with those photographs and that video ( ha which means gorilla man has already put stuff into my head , already has fucked my brains , filling my head with the idea of that , the vision , the meme of that ) and I thought I was some tough cookie but I was wrong I 'm just a dunked digestive baby I 'm soft I 'm flopping I 'm disintegrating and that 's why unless I 'm the best fucking actor he 's ever seen McDunn ca n't accept I was capable of the things gorilla man did , yet so much of the evidence , especially the dates and times that sort of stuff , points at me not to mention that piece of TV-crit I did that reads like a hit-list now . |
| 16 | I 've persuaded the people who matter that I 'm the best man to work with you to help us clear this up , but I 'm like a football manager , Cameron ; I can be replaced at a moment 's notice and I 'm only as good as the results I get . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm the best judge about that . |
| 18 | ‘ I mean , ’ says Howard to a girl called Rose he meets at a party , as they sit on the stairs around two in the morning , talking seriously , her dark eyes looking up seriously into his , ‘ I 'm the best mountain-designer in the universe . |
| 19 | And the more obvious it is that I 'm the best , the more convinced they are that under the surface , in some subtler way that only a more discriminating critic would appreciate , they are … |
| 20 | But as proof-reader I 'm the best ! |
| 21 | I 'm the best salesman one timeshare could 've got . |
| 22 | Oh yeah an' I 'm the best one in England . |
| 23 | and whenever get somefink and I 'm the best one in England . |
| 24 | ‘ So , OK , I 'm not saying that I 'm the best commodity dealer in London . |
| 25 | She said , I live at , I 'm the best ! |
| 26 | The songs too had jokier titles : Down Where the Cross-Eyed Claras Grow , I 'm the Good Man that Was so Hard to Find . |
| 27 | Evening I 'm the good looking one |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm the better fighter , ’ he said . |
| 29 | ABBERLEY : I 'm the better judge . |
| 30 | Lawson comes over as smug and arrogant , yet his is the best book yet to emerge from inside the Thatcher years . |