Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [be] [art] [noun] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Bowe has always said that I am the man he wants more than anybody and now that I am giving him the perfect opportunity , he is shying away from it . |
| 2 | For , once he knew the truth , he could no longer believe that she was the monster he had branded her , and that might lead him to abandon his marriage , whose only purpose , she was certain now , was to thwart her . |
| 3 | ‘ But Nate has specifically said that you are the man he wants to fly out to Turkey . |
| 4 | She went on without prompting : ‘ Although he was a painter he was a very literary man so we had plenty in common . |
| 5 | Bickford was determined to make a safer type of fuse , and although he was no scientist he carried out a series of experiments with many different combinations of materials until , having nearly despaired of ever achieving his goal , he visited a friend in his rope walk and suddenly hit on the idea of spinning a light rope or cord round a tightly packed central core of gunpowder . |
| 6 | Conversely , where the tenant is likely to give discounts to certain customers ( eg those who pay by credit card , or employees ) , or where he is likely to have sales or special offers , his advisers should attempt to ensure that it is the amount he receives rather than the full retail price which is to be included in the calculation of turnover . |
| 7 | He was so strong and confident , so sure of himself , that it was a pity he held all women in contempt . |
| 8 | He saw the hideous face of the huge thrashing thing before him , superimposed on that blank mask , and knew that it was the face he had been looking for since the death of his wife and son . |
| 9 | Mr Loxton was sure that it was the actor he had witnessed near the shop at about the incriminating time . |
| 10 | Alice knew that it was the situation he was examining ; he was not used to this informality , to group-living , but he was giving it his consideration . |
| 11 | Jinkwa noted with pleasure that it was the female he and the General had encountered near that strange blue object . |
| 12 | He knew that it was an invitation he would accept . |
| 13 | He suspects that a black mark went firmly down against his name for turning down the job and when he was later asked to become personnel manager for that division of ICI he was left in no doubt that it was an offer he should not refuse . |
| 14 | Again , now that he is a man he is expected to observe those admittedly very minimal standards of decency which apply to excretion ( for instance , not urinating on someone 's feet when you are talking to them ) , and so to this very limited extent we can speak of initiation being like toilet-training . |
| 15 | Now that he was a man he was no more capable of working unsupervised than when he had first come to the farm at the age of twelve . |
| 16 | Sometimes he felt that he was the person he was because of them and acted the way he did because of their effects . |
| 17 | Des inspects me like I 'm a record he 's thinking of buying . |
| 18 | He undressed her slowly and with infinite gentleness , as if she were a peach he could not bear to bruise , and then guided her shaking hands as she undressed him . |
| 19 | ‘ Well , Karen , ’ he smiled at her as if she were an acquaintance he 'd just spotted in a crowd . |
| 20 | that looked fantastic and everyone said oh god he 's so artistic you know and he 's a butcher he was n't really but we just used to sit down and think of all these ideas you know |
| 21 | And it 's a quality he put to good use when he performed a parachute jump to raise money for a girl who suffers from a rare heart condition . |
| 22 | He 's throwing in the towel and it 's a towel he 's never even held anyway , ’ said Mrs Mainwaring . |
| 23 | It took him 20 minutes to make it down safety and it 's an experience he 's not keen to repeat . |
| 24 | What Coetzee 's work suggests , and it is a pity he does not pursue this point fully , is that in Britain before 1914 the potential fragmentation of the political right was contained . |
| 25 | There was a bonus for the Everton boss in that he seems to have discovered the creative midfield force he has been lacking , and it is a player he signed during his first spell at the club five-and-a-half years ago . |
| 26 | ‘ This was an absolutely horrific accident and it is a tragedy he lost his legs , ’ said an ambulance spokesman . |
| 27 | The patient may have enjoyed gardening before his stroke or head injury , and it is an activity he can return to even with quite a degree of disability . |
| 28 | It was a world that had captured Andy Laing 's imagination ten years before , when he was just finishing school , and it was a world he would never enter again . |
| 29 | ‘ His car was being serviced and it was the night he was going to show me Conway House . ’ |
| 30 | Most of the work on the land was done by the villa slaves under the eagle eye of the owner , and it was the way he organised his labourers which produced the better results . |