Example sentences of "be [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's totally street legal , sounds as good as any cable and it could be yours for the price of a phone call . |
| 2 | Upon arrival at Aberdeen Airport your COMPLIMENTARY CAR will be awaiting you … and will be yours for the entire weekend to use as you please . |
| 3 | When Saturday Comes is Britain 's leading alternative football magazine , and its next 12 humorous , nostalgic , yet incisive monthly issues can be yours for the almost insignificant fee of £11 ( including postage ) . |
| 4 | The nameplate Preston Guild which can be yours for the highest bid . |
| 5 | The choice may be yours in the future , though , and the right choice at the beginning can mean the difference between a happy home and misery . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , you know what my mother 's always saying : everything in life has to be paid for , and you 've paid for the happiness that 's going to be yours in the future . |
| 7 | All the furniture in Mr. Preston 's accommodation — is to be his with the exception of the old mahogany bureau which I believe you , Sara , have always looked on as your special possession . " |
| 8 | Duart 's wife should be his in the sight of God and man . ’ |
| 9 | All you could do deep down was to pray it would n't be you for the chop . |
| 10 | Well when you go to your bed that 'll be you for the night , there 'll be no getting back up again . |
| 11 | One day it could be you in the same position ’ . |
| 12 | Shifting this sense of entitlement , making distinctions between parents suspected of abuse and parents who are not , are crucial issues for feminists — be they in the voluntary or statutory sectors . |
| 13 | Then I thought that she lived in the cottage — Maria looked after her , perhaps ; or perhaps this room that was to be mine for the week-end was normally hers . |
| 14 | ‘ Can it really be as you say , that fame — that vicarious life in another 's breath — will be mine in the years to come ? |
| 15 | She is the perceptive observer — be it of the radiation victims in Nagasaki or the aged geisha dancing exquisitely well for her venerable patron . |
| 16 | And that seemed to be it for the night . |
| 17 | Well you can just wait , you want you can go in mine , erm do we could do with and that would be it for the interview |
| 18 | I used to help with sticking the the er money onto the well this used to take about , you know , an hour all these kids did n't know what two pence was , did n't know what twenty pence was and ten pence and fifty pence and then we , they were in go about groups of seven and we get all this done then it would be assembly , then it 'll be games and then that 'll be it for the whole morning ! |
| 19 | In these conditions controversy over student fees or over interference by the authorities — be it with the freedom of speech of progressive professors , the content of the curriculum , or the right of students to form their own organizations — sparked lively protest . |
| 20 | From the late 1850s to the revolution , controversy over student fees , police brutality , or interference by the authorities — be it with the freedom of speech of progressive professors , the content of the curriculum , or the right of students to form their own organizations — sparked recurrent outbursts of student protest . |
| 21 | ‘ Had you seen me then , as I left your hotel , when I gave into that need to kiss you — be it on the cheek , I 'm sure you would have thought ‘ poor Ven ’ . ’ |
| 22 | She has a hard act to follow ; it is never enviable to be the successor of one very powerful founder director be it in the gallery sector or in commerce . |
| 23 | By the time she reached the front door the house , she knew , had to be hers for the summer . |
| 24 | There is no reason why , out of the whole Universe , it should be us at the centre . ’ |
| 25 | It wo n't be us at the next E I P , but are n't you inventing the same problem |