Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] be a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've put in to be a corpse already and then I can laugh my head off on the floor all the way through — ’ |
| 2 | ANGIE WENT OFF TO BE A PLUGHEAD . |
| 3 | Honest prose defeats dissembling verse , and the braggart goes off to be a thief . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | All the same , he grew up to be a famous philosopher as well as a famous scientist , while I … |
| 7 | I was brought up to be a butcher , ’ the man replied , looking me cordially in the eye . |
| 8 | She was not brought up to be a major figure in political life , let alone a ruler . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Their daughter , Pepita , grew up to be a healthy , happy girl in St Vincent . |
| 12 | Derek grew up to be a careful young man , never prizing any possession too much and desperately afraid of making a mistake . |
| 13 | It reminded me of when I was a teacher and watched one of my pupils , Dan Waterman , grow up to be a fireman . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I ca n't believe for one minute that Perry would really give it up to be a video director . |
| 16 | It was impossible to speak to Mr Sloan , she said , and added that the Panel was never set up to be a court . |
| 17 | I had been brought up to be a hero . |
| 18 | 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 ’ . |
| 19 | Parents have such high hopes for their offspring and then they grow up to be a big disappointment . |
| 20 | I do n't want my son to grow up to be a sexual pervert because of lessons he 's learned at school . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ The York race is boiling up to be a good looking contest which is great , ’ Kauntze said . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The Destiny launch is shaping up to be a pretty big pow-wow . |
| 25 | If he does n't reform he will grow up to be a professional criminal . ’ |
| 26 | We can not , of course , look into his soul but on the basis of his ascertainable behaviour he grew up to be a conventionally pious man . |
| 27 | She had defended this unconventional opinion , and undercut the threatened ostracism of her playground peers , by broadcasting her intention , too ludicrous to take seriously , that she should grow up to be a spacewoman . |
| 28 | I hope he can grow up to be a normal young man in spite of what has happened to me . |
| 29 | as if her thoughts had been transmitted to her sister , Dorothy said , ‘ I know my son would have grown up to be a fine , good-looking man . |
| 30 | I hope these so-called mothers never wonder why the child they gave birth to , grows up to be a stranger to them . |