Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] [be] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I was close by and so they sent me in so the way I , I got dressed up in the minister 's cassock , and I got in revised the books of Genesis , like through and I get genned up to be a minister and I took in a bible and er well anyway I killed five men and they got out alive . |
| 2 | It reminded me of when I was a teacher and watched one of my pupils , Dan Waterman , grow up to be a fireman . |
| 3 | Parents have such high hopes for their offspring and then they grow up to be a big disappointment . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | And I think we we have grown up to be a noisy |
| 6 | For Pat junior has grown up to be a hunky , muscular , six foot two . |
| 7 | If he does n't reform he will grow up to be a professional criminal . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I hope he can grow up to be a normal young man in spite of what has happened to me . |
| 10 | Not unnaturally a young man thus taken on might grow up to be a shrewd and skilful miner , and perhaps at some future date form his own gang or pare . |
| 11 | She 'd hoped Bernard would grow up to be a priest : now he 'd taken up with a woman . |
| 12 | ‘ And it was your grandmother who convinced you you were n't an ugly duckling , that you would grow up to be a swan ? ’ |
| 13 | Nigel Martyn , the goalkeeper he bought from Bristol Rovers for £1 million , has turned out to be a snip , his acrobatics saving the day when United penetrated Palace 's back four , newly shored up by the strapping Andy Thorn . |
| 14 | He had turned out to be a lame duck and limped out of her life . |
| 15 | ( Afterwards Andy Roberts pointed out that the only ‘ alien implant ’ so far discovered turned out to be a ball bearing that had got lodged up a child 's nose . ) |
| 16 | The crazy guy , now at the bottom of the Baltic with his crew , had turned out to be a secret and tormented homosexual , a condition he had hidden under an apparently conventional marriage . |
| 17 | Sadly , the one product that Medirace was developing turned out to be a dud . |
| 18 | And the risk has turned out to be a disaster . |
| 19 | Her style of government has turned out to be a marvellous make-work scheme for political scientists , contemporary historians and political commentators . |
| 20 | These turned out to be a row of haddocks . |
| 21 | Many may have discovered that the trouble-free lifestyle they had planned has turned out to be a good bit less well-regulated and tidy than they had expected or intended it to be . |
| 22 | The 100 metres turned out to be a controversial race . |
| 23 | The villa had turned out to be a converted barn featuring renovated stone walls , distressed oak furniture , and a large resident population of rats , bats , wasps , flies , spiders and cockroaches , all of which strongly resented our intrusion into their habitat . |
| 24 | And then the last time ; that had turned out to be a walk on the wild side . |
| 25 | PLEASURE DOMES IN THE BUNKER Putting their money where the boom beckoned has turned out to be a major handicap for several super-golf-course developers |
| 26 | AN INDIAN restaurant taking part in The Sun 's free curry offer has turned out to be a right poppadump . |
| 27 | Organised jointly by EurOpen and UniForum , OpenForum ‘ 92 has turned out to be a successor to the old European Unix User Group ( EUUG ) conferences of the past , with a high proportion of technical attendees . |
| 28 | On the other hand , the man she had been wary of seeing , who had a bad reputation , who in her right mind she should never have got involved with , had turned out to be a good man underneath . |
| 29 | Molly 's mother , married for her beauty , had turned out to be a solemn and conventional woman , alternately angry and exhausted . |
| 30 | It had turned out to be a strange sort of holiday . |