Example sentences of "know [pron] be the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No jests , you know I am the keeper of the King 's secrets . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'll have you know I was the scourge of our local Pontypool dance hall every Saturday night . ’ |
| 3 | Right as you know I 'm the head of a major advertising company . |
| 4 | Akhenaten either died or was murdered , we 're not , we do n't know , we do n't know how er he was a very peculiar man as I 'll explain in the lectures er physically , very strange probably as a result of inbreeding and erm the old religion re-established itself there was never a return to monotheistic sun worship , but er all its hypothesis is that , that since we know the exodus occurred round about this time and since we know that Judaism too is a religion of a single-minded monotheist you know I 'm the law by God I shall have no other gods before me , it says in the Bible full stop . |
| 5 | know I 'm the sheriff . |
| 6 | Okay , Jesus is the Son of God , poor old Joseph is just a kind of surrogate father erm , you know like a test-tube baby father actually test tube er is er is like you know er a complete surrogate father er for God erm they 're threatened by Herod so they have to flee to Egypt and er then they come back and eventually Jesus realizes who he is and after a long struggle with good and evil , temptation at the desert , crucifixion and God knows what , erm off he goes back to you know , sitting up there on the right hand of God saying you know I 'm the Son of God which he is , so Oedipus , Oedipus is expelled by his parents , there 's a prophecy he will murder his father and marry his mother , so they get rid of him , but he does n't die , he gets found by a shepherd , brought up by a shepherd . |
| 7 | But he added : ‘ For all we know she was the individual who infected him . ’ |
| 8 | I know who 's the day , yes just a similar similar phrasing . |
| 9 | ‘ I know you 're the thief . |
| 10 | And they use the whole of the house , you know there 's the downstairs , that little room that you saw . |
| 11 | have n't erm er and erm you know some things you , you know there 's the sort of one particular textbook that covers most of what we talk about in the classes , some things there is n't |
| 12 | But erm the shop opposite er you know there 's the market and there 's a cake shop , opposite there by the shop , they 've got a sale there . |
| 13 | But but strange to relate er I can remember on you know a number of occasions earning a golden half sovereign , you know real gold it was then , the you know there was the gold coins . |
| 14 | The socially ambitious know it is the lord lieutenant who arranges who gets to meet the Queen , so the embossed invitations to his receptions are rarely refused . |
| 15 | Now I know it 's the landlord 's it 's as tainted as an unfaithful lover . |
| 16 | I know it 's the weekend , but I need to discuss some public relations business . |
| 17 | But , according to L pez , " We know it 's the banana companies because there is no other agricultural activity in the area " . |
| 18 | But you really know it 's the Christmas holiday when the school Christmas concert comes . |
| 19 | I know it 's the postman |
| 20 | You know it 's the thing you wanted . |
| 21 | Smashing Pumpkins make good noise , even if , as Billy says , he does n't mind antagonising people live but would love to make pretty records : you know it 's the punk in him speaking . |
| 22 | Yeah somebody I I ca n't remember who it was , I heard somebody I think on the radio or television talking about the , you know it was the beginning of January and they 've already put er hot cross buns in the supermarkets . |
| 23 | I made my escape you would say , and I know it was the coward 's way out , because I have to confess that I thoroughly enjoyed the proceeds . |
| 24 | And Jenny just talking about , you know , well you know it was the sort of stuff that one talks about . |
| 25 | I know he 's the Devil showing me the world that can be mine . |
| 26 | Let me just give you a little illustration that might help , you know in thinking of the erm the fusion of the divinity , the divine nature and the human nature , erm is it Clarke Kent , is that the guys name on television , you know the character , you know the guy that walks around you know he 's the boy next door type figure with glasses and all the rest of it , he 's no macho figure that and then in a transformation take place and woof goes flying through the air does n't he , what is he , he 's Batman is n't he |
| 27 | I mean , I know he 's the star and all that , but I 'm damned if-I 'm going to be upstaged , even by him … ’ |
| 28 | ‘ When he is standing in front of me and I know he is the person who has taken my daughter away — that is when it will be hard . |
| 29 | He had once said to Anna , in a touching burst of confidence , ‘ You know what 's the matter with me ? |
| 30 | ‘ I know what 's the matter with you : those dead boys . |