Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [noun] [conj] he be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its move from its existing site at nearby Seaham , Co Durham , will only bring 25 new jobs , but TWDC 's chief , Alastair Balls , said other firms were showing interest and he was ‘ very optimistic ’ about prospects for further developments . |
| 2 | In this case the family of an alleged " collaborator " were held hostage and he was forced to drive a car carrying explosives into the army checkpoint on the Belfast-Dublin road . |
| 3 | He had n't seen copper trying to get him caught up , I wonder how much he was using mirror when he was overtaking people ? |
| 4 | He was made editor when he was 26 . |
| 5 | That 's when Major , who was on the photo , he was Major in the army of nineteen fourteen eighteen M C Major M C , military cross well he took charge and er a chap off the shop floor , well he was an old contemptible of the nineteen fourteen to eighteen war , name of Bert he was made Sergeant because he was only one who had got any military experience , and he started with us on the shop floor in doing foot drill . |
| 6 | Olajade was going places until he was badly beaten by Michael Nunn , but he will provide Benn with fighting experience . |
| 7 | Olajade was going places until he was badly beaten by Michael Nunn , but he will provide Benn with fighting experience . |
| 8 | He was called Titch because he was a midget with a very large head and very short legs , and Uncle for reasons that were never satisfactorily explained to William , but then , not a lot ever was . |
| 9 | He said he was called Prentice and he was a detective-sergeant and he 'd been well trained in the most vicious of police techniques : politeness and reasonableness . |
| 10 | ‘ Right from the beginning Mr Lewin realised that a robbery was taking place and he was the target , ’ he said . |
| 11 | My mother had said to Lili one day that she thought I was marrying Syl because he was so much older than me and would take the place of my father . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've told them that I was fighting Franco and he 's a Fascist the same as Hitler , but once these fellows get an idea in their heads they just do n't listen . ’ |
| 13 | James Robson , of Barlborough Avenue , Stockton , was making progress after he was admitted for problems with his bladder before the fall on February 9 . |
| 14 | What is unusual , in the defiantly liberal world of stand-up comedy , is that the heckler was attacking Hughes because he was Irish . |