Example sentences of "be [verb] [pers pn] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I 'm reading him the Greek myths at bedtime and I just hope when we get to Oedipus the penny will drop . |
| 32 | Next thing you 'll be telling me the little cow 's summoned up the ‘ forces of Evil ’ . |
| 33 | Me and me mam were singing it the other night . |
| 34 | The words were leading him the wrong way . |
| 35 | I thought you were calling me the bearded wonder then . |
| 36 | When Edward Thomas entered the History Eighth at St. Paul 's in January 1894 , he was at least seventeen months younger than the seven pupils who had joined the class in the previous July or September and who were to leave it the following June . |
| 37 | Who do you think was making the audience laugh while you were giving them the full force of your personality ? |
| 38 | And you were telling me the other clubs men men had |
| 39 | Yeah cos , my mates were telling me the other day what 's Gilly said ? |
| 40 | A few minutes later , as he turned right into the Banbury Road , now beginning to think once more with some semblance of rationality , Morse considered whether his witness had been telling him the whole truth . |
| 41 | But Brett here 's told you the only ones that 'll give any trouble will be the goons wearin' joggin' suits of black , grey or brown . |
| 42 | She 's got that unappetizing little Yank in tow , and she 's feeding him the Authorized Version . |
| 43 | She 's recording it the stupid cow she 's |
| 44 | ‘ What you 're doing , Eva , is handing me the old ‘ everyone 's a junkie ’ line , right ? |
| 45 | And he 's still , one bloke went bankrupt , and he only got amount off him , he 's telling me the other week , he 's , he 's still five thousand pounds owing to him , though , work he did twelve months ago |
| 46 | I mean technically we do have an entitlement to visits in that Janet was was reminding me the other day that that we said , when Deborah was here , that everybody was entitled to four visits a year . |
| 47 | ‘ I felt as though I was announcing it the whole time : by the way I watched you , and talked to you , and could hardly manage not to touch you — stroke your head , brush your arm , hold your hand … . |
| 48 | Erm , I was erm , put on just for in ninety seventy three and your question that you 're asked was and from nineteen seventy three till three years ago erm I know took my causes , I trust , put my trust in the doctors and erm over all those years I did n't realize that it was actually the tablets that was causing me the mental illness . |
| 49 | Thank you very much indeed for the smelly duck — or should I say scented , it is such a nice smell ! — and for the pretty scarf which , you may be surprised to hear , Mark admired when I was wearing it the other day though he had n't realized it was new and from you ! |
| 50 | I was teaching them the fine art of drinking Tequila Slammers , one of the fastest ways of getting spifflicated known to man . |
| 51 | She was berating me the whole time . |
| 52 | I was doing it the other day yes . |
| 53 | Jean was asking me the other day , and really , you 've told me next to nothing . |
| 54 | ‘ Yes , that was because Lesley-Jane was giving me the wrong cues . |
| 55 | I know what profession she 's in , and no wonder that taxi driver was giving me the big smirk . |
| 56 | He was all the more determined to appear in control because his father-in-law was giving him the half-amused , half-pitying look , which Hugh interpreted as ‘ I know you 're sorry you 've got to put up with me . |
| 57 | By the middle of February , when the Shah had been in Morocco more than a month , it had become common gossip in the diplomatic corps that Hassan was giving him the cold shoulder . |
| 58 | Erm I 'm , I admit er that that was one I just bolted simply because I was taking it the wrong way round , I thought we had identified what was the priority , life insurance , P H I and pensions and was summarizing it whereas I should 've realized we 're doing that page towards the priority |
| 59 | You had to go to such trouble to persuade the subject to accept the poison and when ( or rather , in his case if ) you managed it , your very intimacy made it all too clear to everyone that you were the one who was slipping them the doctored crumble , the dodgy spaghetti bolognese or the potato salad unusually rich in mineral salts . |
| 60 | Lee had risen and moved to where he sat at the table and was showing him the completed unicorn 's head . |