Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [be] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He knew what blow had knocked proud Lucifer , the first angel , out of the sky and hurtled him down to be the founder of Hell . |
| 2 | I 've put in to be a corpse already and then I can laugh my head off on the floor all the way through — ’ |
| 3 | Sometimes he was roped in to be the MC at these dances , which , for those who know only disco dancing , means Master of Ceremonies , and it was he who announced that the next dance would be a waltz , or a foxtrot , and was not supposed to dance himself until everyone else was on the floor . |
| 4 | Hogan , above , is writing and starring in To Be An Outlaw , a bank robber who finds his profession under threat as the West bows to 20th Century technology . |
| 5 | ANGIE WENT OFF TO BE A PLUGHEAD . |
| 6 | Honest prose defeats dissembling verse , and the braggart goes off to be a thief . |
| 7 | There was a child , an eleven-year-old from a farm seven miles south of Coventry , sent off to be a maid-of-all-work in a parsonage in Burnley . |
| 8 | They all want to be so he went off to be a computer scientist and either he was too interested in er what he describes as cult television which you think |
| 9 | I continued to chair the inquiry into pensions and later took over family policy when the much liked Minister of State for Social Security , Rhodes Boyson , went off to be the number two in Northern Ireland . |
| 10 | But on privatization , they were split off to be the watchdog for what we put into the rivers . |
| 11 | This week Kevin Morris from Cheltenham set off to be the 424th and the very first to do it backstroke . |
| 12 | All the same , he grew up to be a famous philosopher as well as a famous scientist , while I … |
| 13 | I was brought up to be a butcher , ’ the man replied , looking me cordially in the eye . |
| 14 | She was not brought up to be a major figure in political life , let alone a ruler . |
| 15 | The painfully sensitive narrator of The Better Angel grows up to be a farmer , not a novelist , but there is still the sense that he tells his tale as an act of compulsive , faintly therapeutic , honesty . |
| 16 | The two other sisters , Miranda and Janet , go radically different ways ; Janet becomes a Tory , while Miranda grows up to be a very conscious feminist . |
| 17 | Their daughter , Pepita , grew up to be a healthy , happy girl in St Vincent . |
| 18 | Derek grew up to be a careful young man , never prizing any possession too much and desperately afraid of making a mistake . |
| 19 | It reminded me of when I was a teacher and watched one of my pupils , Dan Waterman , grow up to be a fireman . |
| 20 | Two is set up to be a second clean channel , while three offers a ‘ crunch rhythm ’ facility and so an overdrive rotary joins the Lo and Hi EQ here . |
| 21 | I ca n't believe for one minute that Perry would really give it up to be a video director . |
| 22 | It was impossible to speak to Mr Sloan , she said , and added that the Panel was never set up to be a court . |
| 23 | I had been brought up to be a hero . |
| 24 | When she was a small child people had stopped in the street asking why this little girl with the blonde , almost white , curls had never been chosen for the Pears soap advertisement … the one where it said , ‘ Growing up to be a beautiful lady ’ . |
| 25 | Parents have such high hopes for their offspring and then they grow up to be a big disappointment . |
| 26 | I do n't want my son to grow up to be a sexual pervert because of lessons he 's learned at school . |
| 27 | And although I have to admit that this tale of a French prince who is turned into a frog by his wicked aunt and grows up to be a prince among frogs and a secret agent to boot , did n't grab me , it will surely keep the little ones enthralled . |
| 28 | ‘ The York race is boiling up to be a good looking contest which is great , ’ Kauntze said . |
| 29 | Born at Épinal in the Vosges , Durkheim was Jewish and brought up to be a rabbi which , however , he did not become , turning instead to the new science of sociology . |
| 30 | The Destiny launch is shaping up to be a pretty big pow-wow . |