Example sentences of "[pers pn] 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 | If you 're anything like the GH staff , you 'll be wanting to know more about Stella … watch this space . |
| 7 | ‘ I told 'em — -them — you were nothing of the kind . |
| 8 | Were you were you in the drama clubs here when you were younger then as well ? |
| 9 | You were mine for the taking … ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ You must be exhausted , ’ he immediately suggested , when she was nothing of the kind . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 … |
| 14 | Even if she never saw him again , even if he married Dana , she was his for the rest of her life . |
| 15 | What I said to you was nothing but the truth . |
| 16 | Now how how was the army itself organized , did you was it in the in the normal normal sense of the army |
| 17 | ‘ Maybe people would think we were something like the British Labour Party , ’ he said hopefully . |
| 18 | This ‘ bad faith ’ operates among the doctors and pharmacists who allow their knowledge and skill to be abused ; among the politicians who wish to see themselves as community benefactors , while knowing full well that they are nothing of the sort ; and even among the poor who are so often critical of the medical ‘ care ’ they receive yet continue to hold out for a medical solution to their social and economic problems . |
| 19 | They are nothing like the divers we have tried to photograph and largely failed to capture because of their timidity . |
| 20 | COOK 'S NOTE : Commercially prepared Melba toasts are available , but they are nothing like the real thing . |
| 21 | ‘ They are yours for the asking , Hugh . ’ |
| 22 | And in general terms they 're something of the order of twenty five and a half thousand swellings committed to development in the county , together with three and a half thousand erm in in in draft local plans . |
| 23 | Now that particular force if they 're anything like the other forces that I deal with , ai n't under the stresses and strains that we are . |
| 24 | The nerves on the first night at Taunton had been bad ; so had the understudy nerves of the first night at the Variety ; but they were nothing to the sheer blind terror that attended Charles Paris as he waited to go on stage in the role in which Michael Banks 's career had been so tragically cut short the night before . |
| 25 | The Report criticised the crew of the Croydon for not doing more to rectify the compass problems which they had experienced and for relying too heavily on D/F bearings , but it implied that the Darwin W/T station should not have stated the bearings of ‘ night error ’ , they should have known they were nothing of the sort . |
| 26 | Allan Lamb took over the captaincy and did his best , but it soon became clear that without Gooch they were nothing like the same team . |
| 27 | So we 're going to see it are we from the flat ? |
| 28 | Which system we would have to decide , who draws up the list er would the list be a U K one , a regional one or would it be one in the separate countries that go to make up the U K. A huge amount of discussion there , not a chance missed at all , er he wanted a separate seat for for Cornwall . |
| 29 | It tells us that the soldiers are thinking back to before the war , to the sun as if it were something in the distant past which they took for granted but has now become their last hope and so they are turning back to nature to put right a problem they caused . |
| 30 | That 's it it 's nothing at the end of the day |