Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] be [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To see Thee is the end and the beginning , |
| 2 | What was to heal them was the act of obedience to what God had said , and faith in what he had said . |
| 3 | What we are seeing them is an acknowledgement that the gallery system as we knew it early in the eighties , has really changed . |
| 4 | His reaction on seeing them was a surprise to himself , and a shock to them . |
| 5 | The only force which separates them is the Church , the one single coherent organisation in this country which binds like mortar the different races and degrees of this nation . |
| 6 | But I mean it was it that we were taken to first , and I mean thee was a lot of people on it and I mean it had obviously saved a lot of lives . |
| 7 | I saw no one on the long lonely road home , and the only enemy that attacked me was the midges . |
| 8 | As we have seen the Prague School were also interested in the content of texts as well as their language , but what concerned them was the structure of the content as a self-contained system of signs to be separated out into its different levels , not the overall impression that it conveys . |
| 9 | ( Recovering them is a matter of great urgency ; and a start has been made , but there 's a long way to go — especially with Upward , whom oblivion has enveloped with a completeness that is startling and significant . ) |
| 10 | What 's annoyed me is the fact that you borrowed out five grand without even bothering to mention it to me . ’ |
| 11 | What got me was the way she made this rather bizarre suggestion seem so utterly reasonable . |
| 12 | ‘ My husband hates me being a businesswoman . |
| 13 | What really angers me is the exploitation of young women like us by advertisers , to sell their products . |
| 14 | It was a position of strange intimacy ; as if the steam that shrouded them was a veil that cut out the world . |
| 15 | The main thing that upsets me is the fact that she 's a bastard . |
| 16 | I must say this drink Liza has given me is a life-saver . |
| 17 | ALL THAT WAS GIVEN ME WAS THE MATTER OF THREE SCENES , AND THE CENTRAL IDEA OF A VOLUNTARY CHANGE BECOMING INVOLUNTARY . |
| 18 | Nails are easier to use than screws ; all you need to drive them is a hammer ( see below ) . |
| 19 | So they came running back , saying this thing you sold me is a load of rubbish , Wool Woolwich say it 's not good enough , you know , what 's it all about . |
| 20 | He must think I am a fool . |
| 21 | Do you really think I am a man to do such things ? ’ |
| 22 | John protests : ‘ I do n't think I 'm a misery but I do tell the kids to go and watch Neighbours and Home and Away on the other TV . |
| 23 | Do you think I 'm a machine , without feelings ? |
| 24 | You do n't really think I 'm a murderess , do you ? |
| 25 | ‘ Fanny , do you think I 'm a meshuginer ( madman ) ? |
| 26 | ‘ Do you think I 'm a fool ? |
| 27 | I do n't like it when they 're sitting on the floor in front of the counter with their legs like that and they 're sitting there and you 're looking at the video and you think , well , I ca n't get that because that was made in nineteen-eighty-six and they might think I 'm a bit weedy , so I better get something that was made recently . |
| 28 | " Do you think I 'm a failure as a writer ? " |
| 29 | She looked up at him , revelling in the feel of his arms about her , then said contritely , ‘ You must think I 'm a prize idiot — ’ |
| 30 | My speech impediment makes people think I 'm a bag of nerves , but it 's not true . |