Example sentences of "who [vb mod] to be a " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
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| 1 | Of someone who ought to be a Friend |
| 2 | Of someone who ought to be a friend . |
| 3 | Nicholas Roe , a writer who used to be a fishmonger , says : ‘ I seemed to spend more time sending fish back than selling it . |
| 4 | After coming into caddying quite late in life — when he was thirty years old — Nick , who used to be a baseball player and was ‘ quite good at it ’ , perfected his catching trick with his first professional , George Archer , who lived on a farm . |
| 5 | Thatcher really did have a sex change , and the one she changed with was Paddy Ashdown , who used to be a man . |
| 6 | It is , of course , pathetic that a man who used to be a raging republican should turn into a slavering royal poodle , just as it is sad that his economic and political principles should have become as unrecognisable as the Welsh rugby team . |
| 7 | There is Barnabas , who used to be a rich , landowning Cypriot Levite : Symeon , called ‘ Swarthy ’ , who seems to have been a Negro ; Lucius of Cyrene , no doubt a Jew from the dispersion in North Africa ; Manaen , who was educated in court circles alongside Herod the tetrarch ; and Saul of Tarsus , the Jew from the Levant who had studied under Gamaliel . |
| 8 | Can I say so from a similar point of view , I knew somebody who used to be a butcher . |
| 9 | Des , who used to be a goalkeeper on Stoke City 's books , turned on the style with some continental soccer skills to entertain the crowds before netting from the spot . |
| 10 | And they got a stockbroker , someone who used to be a stockbroker , actually managing the whole practice . |