Example sentences of "[pron] be [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am nothing of the sort ! |
| 2 | How dare you lay claim to me , as if I am yours for the taking ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm one for the ready , Mr Five Per Cent , ’ he said to me in his amusing way . ’ |
| 4 | But I was one with the solitaries of the spirit , too : with St Teresa and St John of the Cross as well as with humbler dissidents like Jordi and one or two other men of the working class I had known in Spain , the young bank clerk I had met in Cordoba the previous spring , among the orange and lilac blossom of Las Tendillas , where we walked and whispered , hardly daring to look at one another , and separating at the sight of police . |
| 5 | I was cast opposite him but I was nothing like the draw he was and we had had a dodgy time on tour . |
| 6 | Shall I know which is which in the tablets , |
| 7 | ‘ You can consider this something which is nothing in the car , ’ he said . |
| 8 | There is a good deal of evidence to show , however , that industrial capitalism places women on the periphery of the economy , and for women in a Third World country which is itself on the periphery of a world economy , the situation is even more difficult . |
| 9 | NEUE MITTE is in the centre of the town of Oberhausen ( population 225,000 ) , which is itself in the state of North Rhine Westphalia , the largest of the German states both in population ( 17.5 million ) and economic power , where it accounts for over a quarter of Germany 's gross national product . |
| 10 | We will fly you both from Heathrow or Manchester to Aberdeen , where you will find a complimentary car waiting for you , and which is yours for the entire weekend . |
| 11 | I said who are you on the phone to ? |
| 12 | Who are you by the way ? ’ |
| 13 | If you 're anything like the GH staff , you 'll be wanting to know more about Stella … watch this space . |
| 14 | ‘ I told 'em — -them — you were nothing of the kind . |
| 15 | Were you were you in the drama clubs here when you were younger then as well ? |
| 16 | You were mine for the taking … ’ |
| 17 | In terms of individual connections , with the exception of Mosley and some of his personal lieutenants , the membership of the NL included a galaxy of anti-semitic and pro-nazi notables , a veritable who 's who of the fascist political fringe . |
| 18 | Its guest-list read like a who 's who of the great and the good . |
| 19 | The who 's who of the business world is in town this week and many a deal will be struck between races . |
| 20 | Dialogue of this type can be used effectively when the reader has settled into a story , knows exactly who 's who by the way they speak , and is as anxious as the author to reach the crisis point . |
| 21 | These are some sources of useful information about who 's who in the industry . |
| 22 | The police and football authorities now say they have a good picture of who 's who in the hooligan world . |
| 23 | Who 's she on the phone to now ? |
| 24 | Anyone who is anyone in the world of hairdressing attended , and the ultimate accolade — British Hairdresser of the Year — was finally awarded to London stylist , Trevor Sorbie . |
| 25 | What this sort of research will not have told you is anything about the advertising 's ability to stand out and attract attention when it appears in the chosen media . |
| 26 | ‘ You must be exhausted , ’ he immediately suggested , when she was nothing of the kind . |
| 27 | Barely five feet four and dressed in sensible shoes , blue silky dress and yellow sash , she was nothing like the glittering bimbos in stilettos and the quietly elegant wives of the money men sitting all around us . |
| 28 | But the more she thought about his arrogant assumptions , his conceited certainty that she was his for the taking , the more she bristled with indignation … |
| 29 | Even if she never saw him again , even if he married Dana , she was his for the rest of her life . |
| 30 | Michael Aspel , who made his first TV appearance in 1957 , hosts The Trouble With The Fifties , an LWT special which revives the decade 's golden moments with vintage clips and an audience of anyone who was anybody at the time . |