Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [conj] he [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When I told him , his reply was that he thought I had liked going there , and he burst out with , ‘ Thank goodness you told me . |
| 2 | All she knew of Travis was that he despised her and believed her to be a thief . |
| 3 | And I fancy that erm a large part of his animus against latterday Oxford philosophy was that he suspected it of covert idealism , erm a preoccupation simply with the knowing mind , insufficient attention to the facts of the world as presented by science . |
| 4 | Provence is as he painted it , we use his images as icons by which to recognise certain things , the cypresses above all , the olives , some configurations of rock and vegetation , the line of the Alpilles , the plain of the Crau , the light itself . |
| 5 | And the only way these can make a difference is if he shares them , tests them out , listens to other ideas and looks for ways to put them into practice . |
| 6 | If an owner dwelt in the township where his land was situated the logical inference is that he occupied it himself , although there was nothing to prevent him letting off part or all of it : the Langley Marish man Richard Collis features as ‘ tenaunt to ye Queene , in landes the yerely rente , vs ’ . |
| 7 | Rachel asked suddenly as they drank black coffee , because the question had been burning on her mind for some time , and she told herself it was important strategically to find out , although she suspected the truth was that he fascinated her . |
| 8 | Choices of ends , as of means , are debatable in terms of public tests ( of whether things are in fact as the agent imagines them , whether his reactions as observed in his behaviour are as he feels them to be ) , but can take account of public observations only to the extent that they are subjectively confirmed . |
| 9 | The other is that he heard me following , and staged the attack on himself , with the help of some accomplice unknown — for it could n't have been done alone , could it ? — to put himself in the clear , and immobilise me long enough for the other person to get away , and the body to be well downstream . |
| 10 | It has been suggested that the real reason Judas betrayed Jesus was that he wanted him to be a popular Messiah who would drive out the Romans . |
| 11 | So Rob 's instruction was that he put them in those files and I did n't think it was a particularly good idea because everything 's easier to find if it 's in the envelopes that we 've put them in . |
| 12 | The secret of Jesus ' great kindness to people was that he helped them and yet always gave them space to be themselves . |
| 13 | It is precisely because he knew who God was that he knew he could trust God in the dark . |
| 14 | The door under the stairs was as he recalled it , low and cut on a slant to fit in under the balustrade . |
| 15 | A clergyman in his late thirties recently said : ‘ No-one has asked me about my praying since I was ordained ! ’ — whether he wanted anyone to ask him was not clear , but the implication was that he needed it ! |
| 16 | In general , these private archives served to make lineage history : a man kept his own papers , and his father 's and grandfather 's if he inherited them . |
| 17 | ‘ … and the pathetic thing was that he thought he had just recovered from a long period of madness . ’ |
| 18 | The only thing was that he said it after Bridgend had beaten Wales a week earlier . |
| 19 | The next thing was that he wanted her to hold the bulge . |
| 20 | His real problem is that he believes it all . |
| 21 | I asked him what the problem was and he told us that when people are together and a lot of energy is being created through tension , it can manifest itself in equipment failures . ’ |
| 22 | First impressions are that he offered them a recipe of component parts from many different guitars and the result is a sort of nouvelle cuisine which leaves this weary plucker scratching his head . |
| 23 | If he committed the crime under an insane delusion , his liability depends on the question whether he would have been liable had the facts been as he imagined them to be . |
| 24 | It was held that Williams was not guilty , since had the facts been as he believed them to be , he would have been acting in defence of the other . |
| 25 | One possible answer for Ian being found away from his family is that he knew he was in danger , and expected them to come after him . |